What follows is a long, largely unoriginal rumination on the state, coercion, the Odessa Steps, and Tank Man. Skip to the end for trivial observations about the current situation in Iran. Or just skip entirely...The modern nation state is an extremely efficient killing machine. We...
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Nancy Tucker's Strait Talk, published earlier this year, is a detailed examination of the triangular relationship between Washington, Taipei, and Beijing between the 1970s and today. Tucker focuses on the.
Fox News is reporting this morning that North Korea has declared the existence of its uranium program, and is threatening the weaponize its remaining plutonium. The New York Times confirms.
It helps if you read these two posts with the soundtrack from "You Only Live Twice" playing in the background. Via Axe.
Check out this fabulously informative article on Chinese SSBNs. The PLAN is building between four and six Jin-class nuclear ballistic missile subs, which when complete will constitute a deterrent on.
I have a piece up at Comment is Free on the prospects for cooperation between China and the US on managing North Korea. The title, sadly, was not of my.
Feng at ID highlights two new bits of data on China's aircraft carrier program. The first is that the Chinese have carried out significant work on the ex-Varyag, the Kuznetsov class carrier that they purchased several years ago and that has been the source of...
I'm sure that the Chinese just arrived independently at the idea of having a folding-wing version of the Su-27:Russia is eyeing China following media reports that an unlicensed variant of.
This should prove remarkably interesting; a Zhao Ziyang recorded memoir of his CCP tenure during the 1980s has been smuggled out of China and is being published:But in this long,.
But I don't understand; why are the dolphins fighting on behalf of the Communists? Have the Chinese been training dolphins for combat? Do we face a dolphin gap? Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant...
MRG forwarded me this piece this morning. I had seen it previously and intended to refrain from comment, but... you know. In general, it's best not to get one's defense.
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.