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Taiwan has long sought an affordable means of deterring the PRC threat. An unnamed Taiwan government official lamented, “Relying on purely defensive systems to protect ourselves from China means we will have to outspend them 10 to 1…That is impossible in the long run” (Financial Times Asia Edition, September 25, 2004). Taipei [...]

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March 28, 2006
Ex-Mossad chief urges West to unite, warns of Muslims imposing ideology.
“We are on the eve of war with the Islamic world, which will wage a war and all kinds of actions and attacks against the Western world. We already noticed the terrorists in the world hit Spain, England, France. I [...]

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If December full-scale tests of interceptor missiles by the United States are successful, they will mark a watershed in today’s contradictory history of strategic missile defense. Is there a danger in this? There is. Lieutenant-General Henry Obering, director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, said the December tests would attempt an actual [...]

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According to the Oil and Gas Journal, an industry publication, Russia holds the world’s largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal reserves and has the eighth largest oil reserves. The once hopelessly outdated Russian energy sector has accelerated production to over 9 million barrels per day (bpd), making the country the [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — China has beamed a ground-based laser at U.S. spy satellites over its territory, a U.S. agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems that provide crucial data to American troops and consumers around the world.
The Defense Department remains tight-lipped about details, including which satellite [...]

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A spate of recent spying cases opens the lid on China’s aggressive military buildup. What’s most troubling: It is based largely on U.S. technology.
On a hot Florida day late in 2005, Ko-Suen “Bill” Moo was preparing for the endgame of a covert operation he’d been orchestrating for nearly two years. He [...]

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IRONICALLY, China and South Korea, the two countries that are putting the most pressure on Japan to face history, are themselves embroiled in a dispute over history that threatens the amicable relationship that the two have largely enjoyed since normalisation in 1992.
Two years ago, Beijing and Seoul’s dispute on history erupted into [...]

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I worked in China in the 1980s as a Soviet diplomat and had many contacts among Chinese scientists, journalists and military personnel. Some of them complained that they were so afraid of Soviet missiles that they could not sleep well at night. At the time, my colleagues and I made fun of [...]

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There isn’t, according to the prime minister, parliament speaker, deputy prime minister, probably the rest of the Cabinet and government benchers in Parliament. And there is, according to the president and head of the military and three service commanders. Somebody, to put it mildly, must be ‘abstaining from the truth.’

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—1993: North Korea shocks world by saying it will quit Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, later suspends its withdrawal.
—1994: North Korea and the U.S. sign agreement in Geneva. North pledges to freeze, eventually dismantle, nuclear weapons program in exchange for help building two power-producing nuclear reactors.
—Aug. 31, 1998: North Korea fires a multistage Taepodong-1 [...]

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Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — Australia may start exporting uranium for use in Mexico’s nuclear power industry in four or five years time, helping meet the country’s expanding energy demand, Australian Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane said.
Mexico’s government is considering ratifying a safeguard agreement within six months, which would enable Australia to start [...]

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PHNOM PENH - The Cambodian capital is becoming China’s Casablanca. While China’s giant state corporations have recently dropped billions of dollars in oilfields and mines across Africa and South America, low-profile, family-run Chinese firms have come to dominate approved investment in Cambodia.

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October 5, 2006 — IRAN’S President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to vehemently deny the Islamic Republic’s desire to develop nuclear weapons. But last week, his rival for power came out with sensational revelations that paint a completely different picture - pointing to the military reasons why Iran revived its nuclear program in 1988.

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