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Over the weekend, President Joe Biden once again said that the United States is prepared to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack. He chose his words very carefully. In a "60.
Source: The White House from Washington, DC [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons At least, that's the conclusion of an interesting piece in Bloomberg News. The deficit did fall year-on-year in.

You might ask "How could it get any worse?" To that query, I reply "Mr. James Kirchick."First things first, in accusing Eric Alterman and Matt Yglesias of nihilism for the.
...or, "Is there anything that Bill Kristol says that won't eventually find its way into Christopher Hitchens Mouth?"China also maintains territorial claims against India and Vietnam (and, of course, Taiwan).
There's a good article in the NYT today about Japan's increasingly aggressive defense posture. In addition to slight increases in defense spending, the deployment of assets farther away from Japan,.
The Financial Times is reporting that Chinese-made weapons are being supplied, through Iran, to insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. A senior US official recently told the FT that Iran appeared.
Ezra writes:You know, I spent my first 21 years on the West Coast, and never once gave a moment's thought to the possibility that I'd meet my end through a.
It really does become harder to believe that Islamic fundamentalism is the dire existential threat of the day when it becomes clear that, just a few years ago, the people.