What Undid the Middle East ‘Peace Process’
(Washington, D.C.): It is now increasingly ineluctable that the Clinton-Barak approach to relations with the Palestinian leadership has failed. Less...
Month: October 2000
Time to Raise the General Knowledge Level’ on China
(Washington, D.C.): Hong Kong's still-independent press is having a field day with an unusual PDA (public display of aggressiveness) by...
Sinopec Case Again Points to Beijing’s Deception in U.S. Equity Market; Far Eastern Economic Review Scorches S.E.C and Wall Street
(Washington, D.C.): An extraordinary article by Murray Heibert appeared yesterday in the prestigious Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) under the...
20 October 2000U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Commission Recommends SEC Investigate Sinopec’s Disclosure of Interests in Sudan
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Commission Recommends SEC Investigate Sinopec’s Disclosure of Interests in Sudan
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom today wrote to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to recommend the...
A Bullet Dodged: House Leadership, Clinton Administration To Be Commended for Withdrawing Anti-Turkey Resolution
(Washington, D.C.): In the face of mounting opposition from the national security community and an 11th hour, personal appeal from...
Sinopec Comes to Market as China Taps Unsuspecting U.S. Investors for Funds to Support Nefarious Activities
(Washington, D.C.): The listing and trading of a $3.4 billion Initial Public Offering by China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec)...
The Sudan SequelWashington Post, 15 October 2000
THE CLINTON administration scored a welcome victory last Tuesday, when a vote at the United Nations overturned Sudan's expectation of...
When Security Fails
(Washington, D.C.): The recriminations have begun in connection with the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Unfortunately, the real scandal is...
It’s War — and the U.S. Better Ensure Israel Wins It
(Washington, D.C.): In today's Wall Street Journal, one of the Nation's most respected strategic thinkers calls a spade a spade:...
PetroChina Legacy Impacts Upcoming Sinopec I.P.O.
(Washington, D.C.): A laser designator has just been placed on the next dubious Chinese Initial Public Offering (IPO): In an...
Memo to Next President: Don’t Do Deals with Dictators
(Washington, D.C.): The conventional wisdom has it that tonight's debate between Governor Bush and Vice President Gore will touch more...
The ‘Inevitable Moment’
(Washington, D.C.): As the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates square off again tonight, some fundamental truths about U.S. foreign policy...
THE ENEMY WITHIN
(Washington, D.C.): Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's desperate -- and apparently failed -- attempt to restart the so-called Mideast "peace...
What’s Your Line?
(Washington, D.C.): Four years ago, the moderator of tonight's debate between the presidential candidates, PBS' Jim Lehrer, found himself in...
2000 Keeper of the Flame Award: Floyd Spence
In the company of over 37 senior military officers -- including two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, top...