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On July 19, 2006, The Heritage Foundation pre­sented a panel discussion on the G-8 Summit held in St. Petersburg, Russia, earlier that month.
In recent years, Russia has regained some of its former status, primarily through becoming a global energy and raw materials supplier and boasting a sus­tained economic growth rate of over [...]

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China on Friday denounced accusations by top U.S. officials that it was selling weapons to Iran and North Korea amid nuclear tensions with the two regimes. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang called the criticism “groundless and irresponsible,” the official Xinhua News Agency said. No other details were given.

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“The American international structure carefully built up after World war II is beginning to crumble, although it is not always obvious yet since good appearances are carefully maintained. A prime example is the crumbling of NATO. The grass is still kept well-trimmed at headquarters, but America’s insistence on making unnatural demands on [...]

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September 15, 2006 — ISLAMIST terror is a deadly threat we have barely begun to address. Yet religion-fueled fanaticism in the Middle East shouldn’t surprise us: The tradition pre-dates the Prophet’s birth by thousands of years.

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The successful Sept. 1 test of a U.S. Ground-Based Interceptor is already having repercussions around the world. On Sept. 6, Alexanbdr Vondra, foreign minister of the Czech Republic, boldly stated that European members of NATO would have to build an effective anti-ballistic missile system in cooperation with the United States.

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Taiwan will introduce a new home-grown anti-missile shield next year as part of the island’s efforts to boost defense capabilities against China, reports said Wednesday. The shield, known as the Anti Tactical Ballistic Missile (ATBM), is “expected to effectively counter the threat of China’s M-9 and M-11 ballistic missiles,” Taiwan’s Apple Daily [...]

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In the wake of 9/11, European leaders felt obliged to join America in invading Afghanistan. But the initial show of solidarity by politicians and intellectuals (“we are all Americans”) quickly gave way to declarations that the U.S. – by supporting Israel, buttressing Arab dictators, fostering globalism, etc. – had asked for [...]

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Last week’s successful test of a U.S. Ground-Based Interceptor was a major step in America’s “quiet neutralization” of China’s nuclear deterrent, StrategyPage.com reported Sept. 5. StrategyPage.com analyst Harold C. Hutchison noted that the test in fact had a more modest goal than the one it successfully achieved.

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But Russia intends to achieve its economic goals, even if that means doing so without the United States. The Bank of Russia made several announcements in 2005 that heralded the increasing role of the euro in its exchange-rate strategy. I observed in many Russian hotels that currency markers were in rubles and [...]

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China, India and other developing countries are set to give the world economy its biggest boost in the whole of history, says Pam Woodall (interviewed here). What will that mean for today’s rich countries?

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The Iranian government is seeking nuclear weapons in order to bring about an apocalypse, Professor Moshe Sharon, a professor of Islamic studies from the Hebrew University, told the annual conference at the Counter-Terrorism Institute in Herzliya Thursday.
Islamic History Expert: Moslem Peace with Israel? Never!
Islam History Professor Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University [...]

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The longstanding U.S.-South Korea alliance, more than five decades old, has gone through a difficult period as of late. Among the many issues bedeviling this once solid relationship: disagreement over how to handle Pyongyang following this summer’s missile tests, a generational divide in opinion on the alliance and the U.S. military presence [...]

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I will concentrate on some of the key questions posed by the Committee: the nature and origin of Islamist extremism; factors contributing to its rise and those that could contribute to its demise; cohesion between groups, messages, and fatwas; and objectives—domestic or foreign; global, regional, or local.

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