Taking out all of Taiwan is a major interruption, but some companies have planned for that eventuality.
The Chinese have a bigger problem, in that interruption of their seaborne trade would have immediate, and serious economic and political impact. Over a hundred million people would be put out of work. The main thing that keeps the [...]

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It’s August 2009, oil prices have topped 150 dollars a barrel and a secret uranium plant has been detected in Iran.
Tehran and Caracas are slashing oil exports by 700,000 barrels to punish the west for sanctions, and the US military is ready to move its entire Pacific fleet into the Middle East to counter threats.
It [...]

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Beat our satellites, beat us.
The Chinese know it. The Russians know it. And religious fanatics are bound to figure it out.
The Chinese are developing the capability to attack our satellite network; the Russians already have it – and terrorists would love to get it.
Over the years, a number of analysts, such as Lt.-Col. John [...]

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Yes, America’s climate policy is immoral. But that doesn’t make China’s rapacious coal-plant building moral. The N.Y. Times has published the sobering numbers, which bear repeating:
The country built 114,000 megawatts of fossil-fuel-based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal-fired, and is on course to complete 95,000 megawatts more this year.
For comparison, Britain [...]

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An old menace has returned, but in very different forms
EARLIER this year Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to his country’s parliament, posed two questions: “Who are our enemies?” and “Why do they hate us?” He described an axis of evil, with Iran’s enemies being “all the wicked men of the world, whether abroad or at [...]

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Israel is seeking to buy 1,700 Lockheed Martin Hellfire II missiles plus 100 Raytheon Patriot guidance enhanced missile-plus munitions and 2,000 radio frequency TOW 2A missiles, the notice said.
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Iran and North Korea reportedly had worked together to improve the accuracy of the Chinese C-802, an anti-ship cruise missile with a range of 80 miles that Iran bought from China from the mid-1990s. Tehran purportedly took delivery of about 150 C-802 missiles. However, China suspended the C-802 sale under U.S. pressure.
In another development, [...]

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