John W. BrunsJohn W. Bruns, the senior executive based in China for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, says China’s plans to develop its aerospace business present industry behemoths like Boeing and Airbus with a new source of competition, but also new opportunities for cooperation. In terms of China’s plans to build its own commercial aircraft, Bruns says [...]

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Iranian students attack ‘fascist Ahmadinejad’
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 41 minutes ago
… pledge to wipe Israel “from the pages of history”, has bolstered his popularity across the Muslim world. But it has not helped his standing inside Iran. …
Jewish Students at Columbia University Unite in Face of Iran’s … Chabad on Campus International Foundation
Students in Tehran lash out [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) — These are difficult days for Chinese President Hu Jintao, as he faces a new Party Congress that was supposed to impose his stamp upon the regime and select the next generation of leaders by appointing his chosen successors to the new Politburo standing committee.
But everything is going wrong at once. [...]

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US, Japan at odds over rising military base costs
Reuters - 21 hours ago
Washington has urged Japan to cover rising costs of boosting US military capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region to deal with North Korea and China, …
Japan Asked To Pay More For US Bases Post Chronicle
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He stated publicly several times that he wouldn’t serve a third term, and yet, no one quite believed it. Would he simply amend the constitution, using his total control of the Russian Parliament, stacked with his supporters? Would he do a power grab that would nevertheless be accepted by his populace? It was difficult to [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) — I don’t think it possible for any historian to visit the Baltic countries or the rest of Central Europe and not reflect on the catastrophes World War I brought to that part of the world. Communism, World War II, National Socialism, the extinction of some communities and the expulsion of [...]

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Russia is increasing pressure on the West with bomber missions
One thing is clear — Putin is not doing just what the U.S. and U.K. have been doing. The Americans haven’t conducted their airborne alert program with nuclear bombers since 1968. They haven’t used nuclear bombers to test Soviet air defences since the 1950s. Nor have [...]

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Opinions from some westerners conclude that what motivates Beijing to support Myanmar is economic interest, and yet others think it is out of Beijing’s fear of democracy. Some experts in China defended the government with seemingly correct reasons—in principle Beijing does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and really doesn’t possess [...]

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Hamas now has complete control over the smuggling routes from Egypt, having forced the clans that previously controlled these routes to take orders from it, say senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces.
The officers said there has been a sharp increase in the quantity of explosives, including various types of rockets, smuggled into the Gaza [...]

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Development of the Z-10 began during the early 1990s. China approached helicopter gunship manufacturers in South Africa and Italy for technical assistance. The South Africans turned them down in 2001, because all the Chinese apparently wanted was to buy a single Rooivalk gunship. The manufacturer, Denel, refused, realizing that the Chinese, as they have so [...]

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