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Indeed, the likelihood of a U.S.-China confrontation in the Middle East over energy is increasing. To meet this challenge, the Bush administration should broaden the ongoing “China threat” discussion to include more than just Taiwan. Previous statements by U.S. national security experts dismissing China as merely a “regional threat unable to project [...]

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Israel’s military expenditure was $9.44 billion in 2005, almost half of Russia’s military budget.

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Tech-savvy armchair sleuths around the world are having a field day discovering military secrets in China.
Three times in the past few months, they’ve stumbled across unusual military installations using Internet programs that allow those online to view satellite and aerial images of the world.

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Recently, Francesco Sisci, Asia editor of the popular Italian daily La Stampa, wrote an article entitled “Why the West Must Reorient” for his mass audience: it no doubt sent shock waves through Europe. In it, he argues that the EU and US must change “because China’s growth has brought a systemic change [...]

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Today, however, Russians no longer feel that they are fighting this war together with the United States. The reason, they believe, is the Bush administration’s desire to impose its values on the world. This position can be interpreted in different ways; we are not going to judge it here, we are just [...]

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Double standard cited at conference
HAVANA — Iran, Syria, North Korea and more than 100 other nations are pushing to broaden the world’s definition of terrorism to include the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Converging on Cuba for a conference this week, members of the Nonaligned Movement complain of a [...]

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The victor of the war on terror is far from clear, the historian Bernard Lewis told a Hudson Institute conference.
The British-born professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton said Monday that he was “more optimistic about the future of our struggle” in the early 1940s — when the French had capitulated to [...]

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