Hu’s becoming first?
In one of the great comedic routines of all time, Abbott and Costello went round and round about a baseball...
Asia
Communist dictatorship presents trouble in Asia and abroad
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates met with China's Minister of Defense Gen. Liang Guanglie last week at the ASEAN...
Enter the dragon
The dramatic come-from-behind election of Benigno (Noynoy) C. Aquino III as president of the Philippines breathes new life into Philippine...
North Korea, evil as usual
Movies and television teach us that evil comes draped in drama, set to a sinister sound track, often with lots...
Game-changing chance
Had the opposition "green movement" been successful with its Feb. 11 attempt to flood the streets of Tehran with hundreds...
Underestimating China
On a recent visit to Australia, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus downplayed the threat posed by China's rapid modernization...
China’s one world?
With all the world's attention focused on the Beijing Olympics and to a lesser extent, the "truce" in Georgia, we...
Taiwan arms freeze
When President Bush came to power in 2001, his administration had an announced policy to improve the defensive posture of...
China displaces the U.S. at Ecuador’s Manta Base
by Nicole M. Ferrand A major problem - as the U.S. leaves Manta, Chinese influence will grow. The Manta Air...
China’s assymetrical strategy
The impressive conventional military strength post-industrial states have procured in the past half-century has helped to determine the shape and...
Chinese Information Warfare
By Dr. William G. Perry. Dr. Perry is a professor of computer information systems and teaches computer networking and information...
The U.S.-Japan Bilateral Alliance
By Eric Sayers. Mr. Sayers is a graduate student in political science at the University of Western Ontario, and is an...
China’s double-standard on debt
Communist China has done it again. Desperate for new sources of energy, the Chinese are moving into an oil-rich...
Chinese weapons killing US troops
What a difference a war makes. Before 9/11, the Bush Administration treated China – correctly – as a "strategic competitor,"...