Geoff Forden wrote a fantastic post on the technical challenges that the Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile system faces, and poses. Make sure to read the comments as well.
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I've been getting a lot of e-mails asking for reaction to this story. For my own previous writings, see here. Information Dissemination has done a lot of work on this.
This is the fourth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of.
North Korea probably didn't need this: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a North Korean border guard shot dead three Chinese nationals and wounded one last week in an incident in northeast China, prompting the Chinese government to file a formal complaint. The shootings...
Back in the day, a fair amount of the policy oriented literature on international security focused on the question of relationships between patron and client states. The reasons for this.
Drezner is a touch concerned about a potential EFCA (Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement) between Taiwan and China: While China's economic leverage over the United States is limited, this kind of.
This claim has appeared in a few other places, but apparently without the official sanction: Liu Chenshan, the author of a series of articles that chronicle the five times China has faced a nuclear threat since 1949, wrote that the most serious threat came in...
Noah Shachtman notices what I noticed two weeks ago: The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The.
Seems like progress, if sanctions on Iran are your thing: President Obama secured a promise from President Hu Jintao of China on Monday to join negotiations on a new package.
American neoconservatives tend to get hostile when you make the point that every country has its neocons. The response typically runs something like this:How can you possibly compare me with those Russians/Chinese/Iranians? Don't you understand that I cloak my hawkish right wing nationalism behind a...
A few years ago, a student of mine worked out the implications of a large scale Chinese SRBM (short range ballistic missile) attack on Taiwan. He argued that the attack.
Speaking of Chiang Kai Shek, I have a short article up at Foreign Policy comparing the Chinese and (purported) Iranian nuclear weapon programs:Even the Soviet bloc worried that the Chinese.