1/04/2015
Planners in China’s military are looking seriously at how the next war may be fought—and won—in orbit. In recent years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has invested much effort into space-based military infrastructure and weapons and has redefined its strategic policy to reflect these new capabilities. China’s space ambitions are heavily publicized by state-run media. […]
1/04/2015
When the Allies defeated Japan at the end of World War II, they dismantled the Japanese security apparatus and deliberately left the country dependent on outside powers. This entailed not only taking apart the military but also the extensive imperial intelligence apparatus that had facilitated Japanese expansion in Asia. As it reconstituted itself, postwar Japan […]
1/04/2015
When Hou Minjun, commander of an armored unit in the Chinese military’s 27th Army, was ordered to drive his troops on a nine-day trip during a training exercise in Inner Mongolia, he lost over half his force in the event. In the first 48 hours of the 2013 North Sword 1405 exercise, Hou looked on […]
1/04/2015
Will Russia’s ambitious naval plans in the Pacific bear fruit this year? By Franz-Stefan Gady In the last two years, Russia’s second-biggest fleet, the Pacific Fleet, has been receiving new ships for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2013 the fleet obtained a new Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), and is expecting […]
1/04/2015
Just how likely are China and Russia to ally against the U.S.? By Huiyun Feng The rising tensions between Russia and the West, especially the United States, over Ukraine provide a constant reminder of the Cold War, when the two superpowers fought proxy conflicts for spheres of influence. A key question in the current game of […]
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Foreign tech firms will either have to comply with intrusive surveillance requirements or risk being substituted by Chinese alternatives. By Ankit Panda China’s new draft anti-terror legislation has sent waves across the U.S. tech community. If there is a brewing tech war between U.S. and China over government surveillance backdoors and a preference for indigenous software, China’s new […]
1/04/2015
By Maria Snegovaya The Kremlin’s motivation in the Ukrainian conflict has split scholars. Is Russia a greedy state ideologically driven to expand or a declining insecure superpower defending itself against NATO? Realist scholars (for example, see these recent pieces by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt) argue that the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict was provoked by NATO expansion into Georgia […]
5/03/2015
Eric Zuesse A much-ignored huge news report from Reuters on Friday, February 27th, was headlined “Chinese diplomat tells West to consider Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine.” China’s Ambassador to Belgium (which has the capital of the EU) said that the “nature and root cause” of the Ukrainian conflict is “the West,” and that “The West should abandon […]
Опубликовано в China, Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Unites States Комментариев нет » 5/03/2015
Will Russia’s ambitious naval plans in the Pacific bear fruit this year? In the last two years, Russia’s second-biggest fleet, the Pacific Fleet, has been receiving new ships for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2013 the fleet obtained a new Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), and is expecting five […]
5/03/2015
Over the past decade, the United States turned from democracy, where the real power belongs to the people, an oligarchy, where the financial elite, facing both the right and left of the political spectrum, coordinated rule the country. The fact that Noam Chomsky (Noam Chomsky), considered the most outstanding intellectuals of America and the most […]