Proposed missile defense upgrade for Taiwan announced
AFP - 6 hours ago
… Jintao that the United States was “categorically opposed” to a change of status for Taiwan, but also raised US concerns about China’s military buildup. …
US eyes $939 million missile sale to Taiwan Reuters
China urges US to stop arms sales to Taiwan Xinhua
China Denounces US Arms [...]

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The Pentagon is spending billions of dollars on new forms of space warfare to counter the growing risk of missile attack from rogue states and the “satellite killer” capabilities of China.
Congress has allocated funds to develop futuristic weapons and intelligence systems that operate beyond the Earth’s atmosphere as America looks past Iraq and Afghanistan to [...]

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Worldmapper is a cool Web site that resizes countries on world maps based on a variety of health and other statistics. It recently added 118 maps to its collection. Below is a new map in which countries are puffed up or shriveled down based on the absolute number of people murdered there in 2002. Colombia, [...]

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“The revival of Russia’s military might under Putin is merely a myth,” Stanislav Belkovsky, who head the Institute for National Strategy, said at a presentation of the report. “The Russian armed forces have degraded completely under Putin.”
If the current trends continue, the report warns, Russia’s nuclear arsenals would shrink from about 680 intercontinental ballistic missiles [...]

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In The China Fantasy, bestselling author James Mann examines the evolution of American policy toward China and asks, Does it make sense? What are our ideas and hidden assumptions about China? In this vigorous look at China’s political evolution and its future, Mann explores two scenarios popular among the policy elite. The Soothing Scenario contends [...]

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Appeasement doesn’t work because the Palestinian leaders can’t be bought off as tribal leaders successfully were by Britain throughout the 19th century. Since the Palestinian leadership seeks the destruction of Israel, there is no room for compromise.
In such a light Pipes observed, “you don’t make peace with your friends, you don’t make peace with your [...]

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The dollar crisis has politicians alarmed worldwide. The US currency has lost 24 percent of its value since the introduction of the euro, and now there is even a chance that China could abandon its policy of pegging its currency to the dollar — a problem the United States should take very seriously. By Gabor [...]

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The Israeli army said on Tuesday it is to launch a major military exercise across the occupied West Bank simulating its response to an outbreak of Palestinian violence.
“The army will undertake a current exercise on November 18 to prepare it to better face all eventualities,” an army spokesman told AFP.
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Iran, seeking to bolster its air defenses amid rising tensions over its nuclear program, is likely to turn to Russia and China for the warplanes needed to replace its obsolete U.S. jets, analysts say.
Both Moscow and Beijing refuse to comment on reports in the Israeli and Russian media, along with Western aviation publications, that Iran [...]

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Russia’s top military commander said Tuesday his country has no obligation to defend other countries against “the evil Americans.”
“Today, there is no need to be afraid of the Russian armed forces,” said Russian army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky. “However, I do not believe that the Russian military is obliged to defend the world from the evil [...]

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