Heh. Perhaps Hu Jintao should consider forming an exploratory committee for the 2012 Republican primary...According to Gallup, Communist, melamine exporting, beating us in the Olympics China is now more popular than Congressional Republicans: USA Today/Gallup Poll. Feb. 20-22, 2009. N=1,013 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3."Do...
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Galrahn and I sat down last week and diavlogged about all things maritime. He's our discussion of the "rise" of Chinese naval power:We also talk about piracy, Robert Gates, and.
Via Galrahn, a PLAN anti-piracy force was stalked by an Indian submarine:An Indian Kilo class submarine spooked Chinese warships that were sent to patrol pirate infested waters in the Gulf.
The PLAN is using its anti-piracy mission as an opportunity to learn:Stratfor, a private intelligence agency based in the United States, said in a report that a Chinese antipiracy patrol would afford its navy “some very real opportunities for on-the-job training, covering everything from logistics...
I have a piece at Guardian: Comment is Free on the International Security Advisory Board report on China. Long story short, it's Team B revisited.
NYT:A high-ranking Chinese military official has hinted that China’s fast-growing navy is seeking to acquire an aircraft carrier, a move that would surely stoke tensions with the United States military.
Defense News (unfortunately, no link) has an article providing some additional detail on Chinese efforts to develop an anti-ship ballistic missile. The platform appears to be a DF-21 MRBM (Medium Range Ballistic Missile) which has a range of about 2500 km. The article confirms that...
China isn't comfortable with the rules Russia wants to play with.A summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a seven- nation security alliance that includes China and four former Soviet republics,.
Even if the US manages to beat out China for the most medals this year, I expect that China pretty much has a lock on the medal count for the.
Defense News has a good article on the Navy's decision to end pursuit of the DDG-1000, although much will be familiar to readers of Information Dissemination. The story notes the inability of the DDG-1000 to use the SM-2 and SM-2 Standard missiles, which it apparently...
I know that most people don't have time, but this diavlog between Francis Fukuyama and Bob Kagan is really worth watching in its entirety. I think Fukuyama goes a bit.
Why did the two Communist giants part ways in the early 1960s? Realist explanations have concentrated on the problems associated with two powerful states sharing a long border. Other explanations.