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China has been providing missiles and nuclear technology to Iran for years, experts told a U.S. security committee last week, adding that transactions have continued despite Chinese government promises to improve regulation and prevent nuclear proliferation.

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LOS ANGELES — A kind of political mystery is forming at the core of the very important relationship between the United States of America and the Republic of Korea, and is eating away at what was once one of the planet’s more sincere geopolitical friendships.

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China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources.
It remains unclear how many times the ground-based laser was tested against U.S. spacecraft or whether it was successful.

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Caracas , Venezuela , September 20, 2006 —Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez confirmed yesterday that the Venezuelan government was currently negotiating the purchase of Russian military hardware including planes and helicopters. This is in addition to the $3 billion worth of equipment agreed with Russia in July.

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PARIS — Fears are strong in Japan about China’s rise as a military power, and negative feelings toward China among the Japanese have increased sharply over the past four years, a new international survey has found.
Poll finds China’s neighbors far more anxious about military buildup than economic surge
Not surprisingly, the six-nation [...]

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WASHINGTON — Destitute Russian nuclear specialists could easily be hired by terrorist groups now that a US-Russian partnership is set to expire, a watchdog group has said.
The 1998 Nuclear Cities Initiative, which offers opportunities to impoverished specialists living in remote former-Soviet “science cities,” is set to expire Friday.

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TBILISI, September 22 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is looking to build a nuclear power plant to reduce its dependence on imported fuel, a leading Georgian television network said Friday.
Power supplies have been a major problem for Georgia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, with the South [...]

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a major vehicle for a Chinese-Russian strategic cooperation, is exerting increasing pressure on US strategic interests in Central Asia. Robust engagement with the SCO by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would offer Washington the best way of containing the group�s rising influence.

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The growth of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), particularly the new applications for full membership are creating worldwide tensions similar to the standoff before the First World War.

The presidents of the six permanent member countries of the SCO - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - met in Shanghai on the [...]

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It�s the great untold story of the war on terror.
Taking advantage of gaping holes in America�s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba�not to mention some so-called friends�are infiltrating the U.S. government to steal our most vital secrets and use them against us. And most astonishing of all, [...]

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Espionage: Beijing stole secrets to every U.S. nuclear warhead while funneling millions to Bill Clinton’s and other Democrats’ campaigns. Now comes news that on Clinton’s watch China recruited CIA officers as spies.
A new book by Washington Times national-security reporter Bill Gertz exposes how Chinese intelligence last decade recruited at least three CIA [...]

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Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is battling cancer in Islamabad, was till recently the world’s leading black market dealer in nuclear technology.
Described by a former CIA director as ‘at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden,’ A Q Khan to BBC journalist Gordon Corera is at once ‘a fascinating and disturbing person.’
‘Here was [...]

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Who won the summer war between Israel and Hizbullah?
The question of who got the upper hand will remain contested. But the debate over who won and who lost obscures the deeper significance of the summer war. It marks the beginning of the third stage in the conflict over Israel.

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The rhetoric from the leaders of Iran, Sudan and Venezuela at the U.N. shared a theme of outrage at the U.S., despite their differences.
WASHINGTON — The outpouring of anti-American rhetoric at the United Nations this week is demonstrating how anger at the United States is uniting the developing world in a way [...]

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