Posts Tagged ‘China’
Obama and the U.S. Strategy of Buying Time
Stratfor | By George Friedman | 2 November 2009 Making sense of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy at this moment is difficult. Not only is it a work in progress, but the pending decisions he has to make -- on Iran, Afghanistan and Russia -- tend to obscure underlying strategy. It is easy to confuse inaction with a lack of strategy. Of [...]
Text of the Open Letter of the Afghan-Taleban to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) (Translation from Pashto)
Ansarnet | 14 October 2009 Open Letter Of The Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan To Shanghai Summit Shawwal 24, 1430 A.H, October 14, 2009 In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate Those with free conscience in the world know that America and NATO member countries have been shedding the blood of the innocent Afghans for the [...]
China’s defense ministry launches official website
Xinhua | 20 August 2009 BEIJING: China's Ministry of National Defense launched its website (www.mod.gov.cn) Thursday with both Chinese and English versions, pledging to promote the transparency of defense policy and army building. (more...)
India launches first indigenous built nuclear attack submarine
China View NEW DELHI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- India Sunday launched its first home-made nuclear-powered attack submarine in what Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said a process to strengthen the country's military preparedness. (more...)
While Pakistanis die by the dozens, the British want their troops out, Now
How many more will die in vain before we withdraw? The attempt to exploit soldiers' deaths to win support for the shameful war in Afghanistan thankfully isn't working Seumas Milne | Wednesday 15 July 2009 22.00 BST All week politicians, media and the military have strained every nerve to turn public sympathy over the deaths of British [...]
India plays catch-up in the great game
Asia Times | By By M K Bhadrakumar | 18 July 2009 The Central Asian question is no more the same as it was in the 1990s. No one speculates anymore that it was inevitable that the region would descend into anarchy. However, the problems endemic to a critical period of state formation linger. The transition economies were just about switching [...]
Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Chinese and Iranian Students
Posted on Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on Friday July 03, @04:38PM Hugh Pickens writes: "Retired University of Tennessee Professor Dr. John Reece Roth has been sentenced to four years in prison after he allowed a Chinese graduate student to see sensitive information on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones. In 2004, the company [...]
Chinese Muslim protests spread to 2nd city
CBC News | Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2009 | 9:27 AM ET Protesters from the Uighur ethnic group took to the streets in a second city in northwestern China on Monday, a day after a demonstration in the provincial capital turned into a riot that left 140 dead. A Uighur man in the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang province said he was among [...]
China Develops Simple Black Box to Neutralise HARM Defence against SAMs
Danger Room reports: China Looks to Undermine U.S. Power, With ‘Assassin’s Mace’ By David Hambling | July 2, 2009 | 4:32 pm Could China wipe out an American military advantage with a simple black box? Joshua Cooper Ramo’s thought-provoking book The Age of the Unthinkable challenges all kinds of conventional thinking about [...]
US Tortured Uighur Muslims and Allowed Chinese to Interrogate them at Guantanamo Bay
Daphne Eviatar reports that while the Republicans in Congress are up in arms about the possibility that a handful of Uighurs will be released into the United States, it’s worth noting that these Chinese Muslims could have some disturbing stories to tell about their treatment at Guantanamo Bay. (more...)
