Among other things, Taylor Fravel and I chatted about Chinese views of the election:
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I have two largely unrelated pieces that both involve China. First, in the Diplomat: As a regularly scheduled biennial exercise, RIMPAC happens regardless of the extant political situation in the Paci
James Holmes asks us to crowdsource a name for China’s “it’s new to you” aircraft carrier, having correctly noted that “ex-Varyag” is getting old: Our friends in Be
James Holmes on INS Vikramaditya vs. The Chinese-carrier-to-be-named-later: And to be sure, the Varyag will reportedly carry about 26 fixed-wing combat aircraft—the official People’s Daily speculated that J-15s will operate from its deck for the first time during the ongoing shakedown—and about 24 helicopters. (I hem-and-haw on the exact figures because an air wing’s composition is not fixed. The […]
On the latest Foreign Entanglements, Chris Van Avery and I talk a bit about the South China Sea: There’s also some F-35 and AirSea Battle stuff in there.
Yesterday I talked East Asia policy and naval policy on the Alyona Show: The howling toddlers, again, are entirely my fault. Critics should take account of how rare it is to have a discussion of steal
Chinese Aerospace Power is a collection of essays generated at a December 2008 colloquium organized by the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute. The collection is held together by a common focus on maritime oriented Chinese aerospace military capabilities. Edited by Andrew Erickson, CAP is part of a series of similar volumes on Chinese […]
Tom Krazit at Paid Content has a piece up apologizing for Apple’s exploitation of Chinese workers in the creation of its products. Krazit argues that Apple really can’t do anything about t
This week’s Over the Horizon column suggests that the Russian arms industry is in for some long term trouble: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s military-industrial complex sustained the
Last week I blogged heads with Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute: Tragically, we failed to have a forward looking conversation about a post-Kim Jong Il North Korea. However, last year’s Patterson simulation involved a North Korean succession crisis…
So you’ve probably seen something about Paul Kane’s “Sell Taiwan” op-ed in the New York Times; effectively, Kane’s suggestion would mean that the US would guarantee non-i
Last night I accidentally watched the bulk of the GOP national security debate. There was certainly a degree of entertainment value, and there’s something to be said for being part of a commun