February 24, 2011 China and Russia are developing and fielding sophisticated air defenses and advanced stealth fighters. The Raptor is the only plane that can meet these challenges. By MICHAEL AUSLIN As Congress begins to take up the Obama administration’s defense budget, one item not even under discussion needs to be considered. Events of the
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February 22, 2011 What has happened in Bahrain is a tiny but telling shot across China’s gigantic bow. By BRET STEPHENS Bahrain is an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf with a population of about 1.2 million. The People’s Republic of China is 12,000 times as large and 1,000 times as populous. Yet what is
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TRIPLETT: Who is Hu Jintao? Official niceties obscure his bloody record By William C. Triplett II The Washington Times January 14, 2011 President Obama makes a courtesy bow to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington earlier this week. A report by the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center links
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The benefits of U.S. defense spending far outweigh the costs Robert Kagan January 24, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 18 The looming battle over the defense budget could produce a useful national discussion about American foreign and defense policy. But we would need to begin by dispensing with the most
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CAN WE GET SERIOUS PLEASE, OUR GREAT COUNTRY IS AT RISK by Frank Roche, Economist Throughout American history, in good times and bad, policy makers have always faced difficult challenges, choices, and final decisions. American policy makers in 2011 face their own difficult challenges, choices, and final decisions. What I sense is missing today among policy makers is a sufficient degree of seriousness,
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THE NEXT DECADE by George Friedman Published: January 2011 Synopsis The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required
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JANUARY 24, 2011 Beijing wants to diversify out of U.S. debt and it will have plenty of cash to make acquisitions. By CHARLES WOLF JR. From 2007 through the first half of this year, Chinese buyers—state, private and in between—acquired 400 companies located outside of the country. The acquisitions span a wide range: mining companies
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing
