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 were crazy. The causes and course of the Sino-Soviet split are complex, but nuclear weapons...
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I expect that future generations will view this as my crowning contribution to American public discourse.
Andy McCarthy ingests more than his daily allowance of crazy pills (and let me tell you, that's a lot of crazy pills):The Wall Street Journal (as flagged in the NRO.
Fascinating; the unscientific popular choice for the name of China's first aircraft carrier is Mao Zedong:But which was the runaway favorite in two polls conducted earlier this month? Mao Zedong.He may have been a monster to you and me. The number of Chinese who died...
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.
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 the latter, but not the former, and I can't seem to find the text of...
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 invention.
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.
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.