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Military strength ‘justified’China Daily, China - Jul 9, 2007In a speech at Beijing’s National Defense University later in the day, Nelson said there was an increase in information about China’s military though many …Australia calls for more openness from China Taipei TimesIndia, Australia sign accord to enhance military ties Times of IndiaFirst joint naval [...]

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Taiwan representative calls on US to counter Chinese military buildupInternational Herald Tribune, France - Jul 9, 2007“The United States can maintain the status quo in the Taiwan Strait by counterbalancing China’s military threat toward Taiwan.” The United States follows a …Taiwan Diplomats Get Little Recognition Washington Post all 39 news articles

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The United States continued to deploy roughly 480 nuclear bombs in Europe, more than double the number normally estimated by the media and non-governmental analysts. The deployment was detailed in the report “U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe” published by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The weapons are all B61 gravity bombs and are deployed at [...]

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The U.S. Air Force has removed its main base at Ramstein in Germany from a list of installations that receive periodic nuclear weapons inspections, indicating that nuclear weapons previously stored at the base may have been removed and withdrawn to the United States.
If correct, the withdrawal reduces the number of U.S. nuclear weapons deployed in [...]

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Predicting that sanctions will ultimately fail to stop Teheran’s nuclear program, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of Military Intelligence’s Research Division, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that time to launch an effective military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations was running out.
According to Kuperwasser, who stepped down from his post last year, Iran is [...]

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LONDON – Consolidation may be a buzz word of the business world, but the Russian government is adept at its own version of it. The Kremlin last week completed formalities to establish a state holding company called Atomenergoprom, which will be responsible for everything nuclear in the country from uranium extraction and reactor development to [...]

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“Taiwan is prosperous economically, but Taiwan is also under threat,” Joseph Wu said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. “The United States can maintain the status quo in the Taiwan Strait by counterbalancing China’s military threat toward Taiwan.”
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My Comment:
Forget it, Taiwan. Why should we defend you when [...]

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The Feng 5 operational range gave China the ability to launch a small nuclear attack against most of Europe, Asia and some parts of the United States, mainly the southeast part of the country. Today, two additional missile platforms are deployed or being tested for possible deployment by China. They are the medium range DF [...]

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The opposition to Musharraf has also turned violent. In mid-May, 41 bodies were counted in the streets of Karachi alone in street fighting that erupted after it was announced that the suspended judge was about to make an appearance. The clashes reveal the growing magnitude of the opposition to the president who, cognizant of the [...]

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A top U.S. source, quoting Iranian Gen. Ali Reza Asgari, who defected to the United States in March, told the paper Yedioth Ahronoth that Iran is further along on a stealth path to building nukes at a facility in Natanz than ever anticipated. Until now, analysts had believed Iran had only two nuclear plants, in [...]

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