Posts Tagged ‘China’
China Shifting from U.S. Treasuries to Gold
Pravda.ru | 25 February 2010 China To Purchase Half of IMF's Gold China has confirmed the intention to purchase 191.3 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund at an open auction, Finmarket news agency said. World central banks started to increase their gold reserves after prices on gold began to climb in 2001. The IMF sells gold [...]
A Serbian View of Kosovo
Antiwar | By Nebojsa Malic | 20 February 2010 The State That’s Still A Lie: 'Independent' Kosovo Turns 2 Two years have passed since the Albanian provisional government in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence, and was quickly recognized by the Empire and its clients. The powers that have invoked the specter of [...]
Japan Overtakes China as Top Foreign Financier of U.S. Wars
China Daily | By Li Jing | 18 February 2010 China's holdings of US Treasury debt slashed China sold $34b in bonds in Dec; Japan becomes biggest foreign holder China drastically slashed its holdings of United States government debt last December, allowing Japan to retake its place as the largest foreign holder of US Treasury bonds. China [...]
Russia and Germany Ambush Iran for Lack of Confidence in Nuclear Program
Pravda.ru | 7 February 2010 The mysterious and controversial nuclear program of Iran, with ups and downs, agreements and disagreements, followed by confirming statements and denying others, has put the issue under the cloak of suspicion. The West believes that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is not civil or peaceful, as they say, but by [...]
U.S. Intelligence Community’s Threat Assessment: Country Excerpts
The Threat Perceptions of a Paranoid Hyperpower Admiral Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, presented the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 2 February 2010. The public proceedings are available as a video (at the Senate Select Committee on [...]
U.S. Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) 2010: Text of Executive Summary
The U.S. Quadrennial Defense Review 2010, that was leaked over the weekend, was released formally by the Department of Defense at 1:00 p.m. EST at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (together with the Defense budget request—for FY2010 Supplementary, FY2011 Base Budget, and FY2011 Overseas Contingency Operations). This post reproduces the Executive [...]
China Protests U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwanese Separatists
Pravda.ru | 31 January 2010 China and U.S. Try to Sort Things Out China has threatened to slap sanctions on American companies that sell arms to its rival Taiwan as part of a range of punitive actions Beijing is taking to protest the deal. China also summoned U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman to express its anger over Washington's announcement, [...]
Text of Chinese Foreign Minister’s Speech at the Istanbul Summit
Sina | 26 January 2010 Remarks by Chinese FM at the Istanbul Summit on Friendship and Cooperation in the Heart of Asia ISTANBUL, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Yang Jiechi, special representative of Chinese President Hu Jintao and Minister of Foreign Affairs, made remarks at the Istanbul Summit on Friendship and Cooperation in the Heart of Asia on [...]
When China Overtakes America
London Review of Books | By Perry Anderson | Vol. 32 No. 2 · 28 January 2010 Sinomania When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques Allen Lane, 550 pp, £30.00, June 2009, ISBN 978 0 7139 9254 0 Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by [...]
China, India hold 3rd round of defense consultation
Xinhua | 9 January 2010 BEIJING: China and India held the third round of defense consultation here Wednesday, according to a press release from the Information Office of China's Defense Ministry Friday. Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ma Xiaotian and visiting Indian Defense Secretary Pradeep [...]
