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BEIJING (Kyodo) China has warned Japan’s new government over its Taiwan policy, reiterating its opposition to including the island in the scope of the Japan-U.S. security alliance and urging Tokyo to act with caution over Taipei’s invitation for former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to pay a visit.
If the Japan-U.S. security alliance “exceeds [...]

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ISTANBUL - Turkish industrialists, paying higher electricity bills than those in developing countries, support the construction of a nuclear plant in the country.
Sanko Holding Chairman Abdulkadir Konukoglu said, “It’s about time we constructed nuclear stations. Poorer under developed or developing countries do not have nuclear power stations; while France, Germany, Britain, America [...]

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Two regional U.S. allies that are affected by Iran’s upcoming elections, and its suspected drive towards nuclear weapons, are Turkey and Saudi Arabia. On paper, both are allies of the United States, and depending on the terrorist caught in their respective spheres of influence, ardent advocates of the “war on terrorism.”
A nuclear [...]

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The call comes in the middle of the night, rousing the prime minister from his sleep with horrifying news: a Mossad spy in Teheran has just reported that the embattled clerical regime, fearing that a popular revolt is close to toppling it from power, is about to launch a nuclear holocaust on [...]

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Egypt - along with Turkey - recently announced plans to build nuclear power plants.
The BBC website asked three Egyptians if they approved of the move; if they thought it would lead to an arms race; and how worried they were about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

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Earlier this year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in China — and quickly made himself at home. The occasion was a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional group linking China, Russia, and Central Asia. During the summit, Ahmadinejad seemed to be everywhere. He posed, arms linked, with Russian and [...]

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TOKYO — Shinzo Abe, elected prime minister of Japan on Tuesday by both chambers of the national Diet, said he seeks to strengthen relations with the United States, suggesting an expansion of Japan’s military role.
Mr. Abe, 52, the youngest postwar prime minister and the first born after [...]

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It is hardly surprising that the London-based Amnesty International has reported that China has become the ‘most secretive and irresponsible’ exporter of arms which help fuel conflicts in many parts of the world. Sudan, Nepal and Myanmar are among the countries that have received the ‘secret’ consignment of arms from Beijing. In [...]

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The two countries will hold a joint military war game in Russia under the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Zhang said in an interview with the official website of “the Russian Year in China” and “the Chinese Year in Russia”.

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“The Arabs see the Chinese as pretty much like Americans - that is, Americans as we used to be before we decided to experiment with diplomacy-free foreign policy, hit-and-run democratization, compassionate colonialism and other “neocon” conceits of the age. And they see a chance to rebalance their international relationships to offset their [...]

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The message of the book is clear: war is won not through strength but through skillful manipulation - a victory of the writing brush and brains over sword and strength. This vision of war is related to another major point of the book, or at least can be interpreted in this way: [...]

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What’s a matter? No sense of humor? You didn’t enjoy watching Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addressing the U.N. General Assembly and saying of President Bush, “The devil came here yesterday, right here. It smells of sulfur still today.” Many U.N. delegates roared with laughter.

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In a survey by Opinion Dynamics released by Fox News, 37 per cent of respondents refer to UN policies as anti-American, while 24 per cent think they are pro-American.

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WASHINGTON — It may take decades to change anti-American feelings around the world that have been aggravated by war in Iraq, U.S. policy toward Israel and America’s “sex and violence” culture, the State Department official in charge of dealing with the U.S. image abroad said Thursday.

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Takashi Tachibana, a political expert whose work led to the resignation of the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in the 1970s, is concerned that Japan could get nuclear weapons under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
He said during a recent speech at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan that although Abe may not want [...]

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Princeton Project report aims to lay new vision for U.S. foreign policy
With the world “on the cusp of a new era of nuclear danger,” international governing bodies “in crisis” and the prospect of a worldwide disease epidemic posing “a national security threat of the first order,” the United States must make dramatic policy [...]

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WASHINGTON — Legislation codifying American support for democratic forces in Iran to choose their form of government is moving quickly through the Senate after passing the House yesterday by a voice vote.

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Private conversations and correspondence indicate that I am far from the only person who has recently been giving more credence to what Max Boot of the Los Angeles Times calls “a dark view of Islam.” The furious, sometimes violent, and often abusive response of much of the Muslim world to the Pope’s [...]

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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia handed over to China a destroyer equipped with state-of-the-art weaponry on Thursday, finalising a $1.5 billion deal analysts say boosts Beijing’s clout in its stand-off with Taiwan.

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