Most of my fellow Iranians are inclined to dismiss the possibility of an American military action against Iran.
Ask an ordinary Iranian what the odds are that the United States will launch an attack on Iran in order to coerce the Islamic Republic into aborting its nuclear program, and you’re likely to get an amused smile.
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China’s Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan has completed a brief tour of the South Pacific, showing how important the region is to Beijing.
China is competing with Taiwan for diplomatic recognition as well as access to vast reserves of fish, minerals and timber.
But there are concerns that this fierce rivalry is unsettling and that bribes are making the [...]

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Yet the satisfaction of a diplomatic challenge eventually handled with skill is soured by the string of psychological humiliations that Britain has suffered.
First, there is the apparent incompetence of the Royal Navy in providing insufficient protection to lightly armed inflatables, at a time when relations between Iran and the West were particularly volatile following the [...]

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In the 19th century, international trade was freer than ever before and, consequently, occurred in greater volumes than ever before, generating greater prosperity than ever before. In fact, some still refer to the late 19th century as the first era of globalization since goods were being shipped between all the populated continents.[3] While the technologies [...]

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It’s called the Jian-10 or J-10 (Jian means fighter in Chinese), and it’s China’s answer to the most advanced models of the U.S. F-16 fighter, an almost-outdated plane that entered service in the late 1970s.
China unveiled the aircraft at the start of this year — after developing it in a top-secret project that began in [...]

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The Russian system is also calculated to send ripples through the fast-expanding industry for consumer navigation devices by promising a slight technical advantage over navigation devices operating on GPS alone, analysts and industry executives say. Devices receiving signals from two systems would presumably be more reliable.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who speaks often about Glonass [...]

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In the subsequent six years, the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has grown. The threat has increased in terms of both capability (see the 17.8 percent defense spending increase Beijing announced last month), and intent (see the 2005 “Anti-Secession” Law). Yet remarkably, much of what was offered to Taiwan in 2001 for [...]

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Yossi Melman is co-author, with Iranian-born Middle East expert Meir Javedanfar, of the newly released book “The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran” (Carroll & Graf, 2007).
True, Ahmadinejad’s foreign policies – especially the desire to become a nuclear and military power – are shared by most of the country’s past [...]

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Ziv medical director Dr. Oscar Embon said that according to health fund reports, the number of pregnancies among women in the North is 35 percent higher now than at this time in 2006. Doctors, psychologists and sexologists explain that the “mini-baby boom” was motivated by the determination that life must go on despite the war [...]

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“We want to cooperate with Russia,” said Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy.
“But that being said, I don’t think if for some reason we’re unable to reach a commonly agreed way ahead, that we would want to accede to Russia being able to dictate what we do bilaterally with other countries or what NATO [...]

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Pyongyang is unlikely to meet a mid-April deadline to shut down a nuclear reactor as the United States and North Korea remain divided over a transfer of the North’s funds in Macau, a Chinese envoy was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
North and South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia jointly [...]

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From the moment it began, it was clear the confrontation between Iran and Britain over the capture of fifteen British military personnel would be no isolated incident. First, there is the nuclear issue. Britain has sought to internationalize the dispute by raising complaints at the UN Security Council and European Union, both of which are [...]

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MOSCOW, April 3 — The days of their cold war may have passed, but Russia and the United States are in the midst of another battle — this one a technological fight over the United States monopoly on satellite navigation.
By the end of the year, the authorities here say, the Russian space agency plans to [...]

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