DAVOS, Switzerland: Last year, political and industrial leaders meeting here cited the rise of China as the No.1 long-term threat to the mighty American superpower, more so than the chaos in Iraq.
But recent evidence of the magnitude of the domestic challenges Beijing has yet to overcome suggests that China is unlikely to overshadow the United [...]

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As global demand for energy continues to rise, major players like the United States, European Union (EU), and Japan are facing a new competitor in the race to secure long-term energy supplies: China. With its 2006 GDP growth hitting 10.7 percent, China is intent on getting the resources needed to sustain its soaring economy, and [...]

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The Chinese missile launched Jan. 11 from Xichang Space Center was aimed at the Feng Yun 1C, a Chinese meteorological satellite drifting 535 miles above the Earth. But the strike — which smashed the seven-year-old orbiter into a cloud of space flotsam — may also have been directed at a target closer at hand. Taiwan, [...]

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Moscow (CNSNews.com) - Amid differing views over the potential security threat posed by Iran, the United States and Russia are exchanging verbal blows over U.S. proposals for a missile defense “umbrella” in eastern Europe and Russian plans to sell missiles to Tehran.
The Pentagon Thursday rejected Moscow’s complaint that plans to deploy U.S. missile defense facilities [...]

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U.S. agencies believe the launcher to be a derivation of either of two vehicles — the liquid-propellant, 800-1,000-mi. range Shahab 3 missile, or the 1,800-mi. range, solid propellant Ghadar-110. A Shahab 3 or a Ghadar-110 fired from central Iran could strike anywhere in Israel, Saudi Arabia, the entire Persian Gulf region and as far west [...]

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DAVOS, Switzerland — Iran expects to start installing thousands of centrifuges in an underground facility next month, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Friday. The installation would pave the way to large-scale uranium enrichment, a potential way of making nuclear weapons.
On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, Mohamed ElBaradei [...]

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Russia maintains listening posts along the Syrian border with Israel which it uses to follow IDF movements in the Golan Heights, it was revealed Thursday night.
According to a report on Channel 2, the posts are manned by Russian military officers who pass on information to Hizbullah in Lebanon. Israel, The Jerusalem Post learned, has known [...]

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