One of the world’s most renowned and respected scholars of the Middle East and Islam says that the Muslims “seem to be about to take over Europe.” Professor Bernard Lewis says that Islam is about to become the dominant force in Europe because it has abdicated the battle for cultural and religious control in the [...]

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TAIPEI, Taiwan: China’s military strength is growing exponentially, making it imperative for rival Taiwan to upgrade its weaponry to maintain the military balance, Taiwan’s president said Tuesday.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing still claims sovereignty over the democratic island and threatens to use force if Taipei moves toward formal independence.
“This [...]

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China’s experiment can be interpreted as meaning that the country, which has been modernizing its military, has stepped closer to the level of the United States and Russia in space development. One of the reasons the United States reacted sensitively to the experiment is that China showed its potential to soon become a rival in [...]

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MOSCOW, February 6 (RIA Novosti) - Poland may agree to the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system on its territory because it perceives a threat from Iran, not Russia or Belarus, Polish military attache Andrzej Lewandowski said Tuesday.
Washington officially proposed January 20 placing a radar network in the Czech Republic, and two days later [...]

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MANTA, Ecuador - The U.S. military‘s lone outpost in South America is a modest affair — some 220 Americans share space with a local air force wing and an international airport. They are allowed no more than eight planes at a time.
That matters little to newly inaugurated President Rafael Correa, whose rejection of a [...]

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The world’s 1.4 billion Muslims seem overwhelmingly enraged by the war in Iraq and the suffering caused by US military intervention. But there appears to be little, if any, outrage against the sectarian bloodletting that has led to more Iraqi casualties than war directly involving American troops.
Muslim leaders and intellectuals alike find it easier to [...]

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How best to keep Iranian ambitions in check without incurring a new conflagration? A historical analogy, inexact but apt, offers important lessons.
In 1947, as Europe lay in ruins from World war II, a similar U.S. struggle for influence was taking shape with the Soviet Union. The novel approach the United States devised, the brainchild of [...]

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CAIRO — Amid ever-increasing US-Iran tensions, a recent $3.6 billion gas deal between China and Iran not only reflects Beijing’s need for energy and Tehran’s need to develop its gas sector, but also a desire by both countries to shrug off American pressure.
The recent deal for the China National Petroleum Corporation, to develop [...]

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Don’t worry, there won’t be an effective gas cartel.
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has cautiously welcomed the idea of co-ordinating gas supplies with Iran and other major producers—but says it will not be a price-fixing cartel in the manner of OPEC, as Iran has suggested. In reality, fears of a “gas OPEC” are overblown, for the [...]

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The next five years are critical because the spread of nuclear weapons cannot be stopped. And the real problem we have with weapons of mass destruction today has to do with our failed sense of history. Like Christian Meier we think that innovation and “change” and one revolution after another have changed the way the [...]

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And what is this “historical mission” of the People’s Liberation Army? Believe it or not, Chinese Communism is sworn to destroy Western capitalism and build, in its place, a new socialist civilization. This has been a central doctrine of the Communist Party of China since its inception. The development of capitalism in China is merely [...]

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For more than a decade, the US was a lone superpower in terms of economic, diplomatic and military might. But China has steadily stepped up to the challenge, demonstrating its intent to serve as a counterweight to US influence when it comes to global affairs. In the first of this series of articles about challenges [...]

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