Bloomberg Reports Beijing’s Obfuscation Strategy Concerning Intensifying Sinopec-Iran/ILSA Controversy
(Washington, D.C.): On 19 January, the Bloomberg wire ran a news item that should be of more than passing interest...
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Sinopec-Iran Deal Facing Increased Scrutiny: Capital Markets Dimension Could Spell Trouble For Wall Street
(Washington, D.C.): Over the past several days, mounting anger is being expressed in the United States -- notably by the...
The Rumsfeld Effect’: Leadership on Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): A few years back, the conventional wisdom had it that the Soviet Union was an immutable fact of...
Ten Years after Saddam Survived Desert Storm, It’s Time To adopt Bush Team’ Blueprint For Ending His Dangerous Misrule
(Washington, D.C.): Few in the West are cheering the 10th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm. Why such...
Insult to Injury: Sinopec’s Iranian Deal Constitutes Apparent I.L.S.A. Violation
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, Sinopec the Chinese state-owned energy company whose listing on the New York Stock Exchange last October...
Rumsfeld Hits Two Home Runs
(Washington, D.C.): To say that once-and-future Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has had a busy week would be an understatement....
WSJ Asia calls attention to Clinton’s rebuff of the US Religious Freedom Commission
In an important article in today's Asian edition, the Wall Street Journal reported on President Clinton's dismissive response to a...
Clinton’s Parting Shot at International Religious Freedom
(Washington, D.C.): On 19 December, President Clinton fired off a letter to U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chairman...
Prelude to Rumsfeld II’: Center Issues Summary of
(Washington, D.C.): On Thursday, a blue-ribbon, congressionally-mandated commission chaired by Secretary of Defense-designate Donald Rumsfeld will release a major new...
Space power: What is at stake, what will it take
On the day that nineteen distinguished retired U.S. military commanders warned President Clinton that a U.S.-Russian agreement expected to be...
Fuggedaboutit’: Gen. Shalikashvili’s Paean to C.T.B.T. is Wrong — as well as Dead on Arrival
(Washington, D.C.): Here we go again. The last gasp of the Clinton-Gore Administration apparently will be expended trying to breathe...
Memo to Clinton-Arafat: Hold Everything
(Washington, D.C.): With the arrival of Yasser Arafat in Washington today, the prospects for yet another fraudulent "peace" agreement appear...
Daniel Pipes: The Winds of War Are Blowing in the Mideast
(Washington, D.C.): This week, President Clinton risks further compounding the damage he has done to date to Israel's security by...
Hell No, Clinton Shouldn’t Go — to North Korea
(Washington, D.C.): The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported what may be George W. Bush's first serious foreign policy mistake: According...
Deploy Missile Defenses Now
(Washington, D.C.): The General's words were soothing but their implications were chilling. Supporters of Governor George W. Bush had been...
PetroChina Coalition Urges American Shareholders to Divest — and to Expand Political Risk’ Assessments
(Washington, D.C.): A large coalition of non-governmental groups (NGOs) from across the political spectrum chose Pearl Harbor Day to call...