Posts Tagged ‘China’
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 [...]
“The Afpak Quagmire”: An Excerpt from Brzezinski’s Recent Foreign Affairs Article
Foreign Affairs | By Zbigniew Brzezinski | January/February 2010 Issue From Hope to Audacity Appraising Obama's Foreign Policy Article Summary: Barack Obama's foreign policy has generated more expectations than strategic breakthroughs. Three urgent issues -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran's nuclear ambitions, and the Afghan-Pakistani [...]
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
The Nation | By Naomi Klein | 21 December 2009 Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN. There's plenty of blame to go around, but [...]
The Petty Anxieties of a Hyperpower: The U.S. Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review 2009
Reportedly, on Tuesday 15 December 2009 a dozen or so experts were invited by the Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence to review four "scenarios" (see chart above, and summarised below) for the Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review (QICR) 2009. The scenarios, based on the National Intelligence Council (NIC) Global Trends 2025 [...]
Full Text of the China-U.S. Joint Statement
Reproduced below is the full text of the Sino-American Joint Statement, which includes the following statement on the “Af/Pak” theatre, India, and Iran (emphasis added): The two sides welcomed all efforts conducive to peace, stability and development in South Asia. They support the efforts of Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight terrorism, [...]
