For example, the most recent estimate of Chinese missiles now opposite Taiwan is 1,000. This cold fact has drawn the attention of the Pentagon, Tokyo, and Taipei.
Those 1,000 missiles are just about the right number to start and win a war over Taiwan.
China has also introduced a brand new air-to-air missile that should be operational [...]

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800-page “Russian Doctrine” sets out a model that resembles neither Tsarist Russia nor the Soviet Union. Instead, it has more in common with Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal in the 1930s
The “Russian Doctrine” presumes that the Russian Federation is doomed to extinction because it will be unable to cope with the looming challenges of international [...]

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Jewish life in North America was nearly aborted before birth when the governor of New Amsterdam sought to expel 23 Brazilian Jews, who landed at the southern tip of Manhattan in 1654.
In a petition to his superiors at the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant urged “that this deceitful race … be not [...]

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Exposing a one-man force for nuclear proliferation.
Book in a nutshell: Husband-and- wife journalists retrace the secretive dealings and ultimate downfall of arms dealer Abdul Qadeer Khan, whose stock in trade was offering up the makings for nuclear weapons to the world’s most tyrannical regimes.
The authors revisit Khan’s efforts to distribute the worst weapons of mass [...]

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Russia to join RimPac maneuvers off Hawaii
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Russia’s military had gone into decline since about 1995, but new oil money has led to reinvestment in the Russian Pacific Fleet. A Russian bomber flew …
Russian fleet will sail in Pacific war games Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Russia to participate in naval exercises off Hawaii Honolulu [...]

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“Nobody Believes in Communism Anymore”
ET: We understand that the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP receives many phone calls and letters from Chinese people wanting to quit the Communist Party. From your own experience, what would you say is the general tone?
Dr. Gao: Daily, our overseas service centers receive many calls from Communist [...]

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Human rights activists vow to keep Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet top of mind as Olympics near.
BEIJING–They are commonly referred to as “The Three T’s,” a short list of sensitive subjects you’re never supposed to raise in polite conversation with the Chinese: Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen Square.
But in the coming year they’re likely to be raised [...]

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Recent reports indicate that Israel is preparing for the day that the Mullahs in Iran get their hands on nuclear weapons. Israeli ministers are drafting proposals on what Israel will have to do in this nightmare scenario.
What exactly should Israel do? What can it do? What must it do? Are pre-emptive measures part of the [...]

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But why strike now?
Well, within about a year of Bushehr becoming operational, some of its spent nuclear fuel could be stripped of enough plutonium to produce a handful of nuclear weapons if the rods aren’t returned to their owner/provider, Russia.
Because the production of fissile material is the long pole in the nuclear-weapons tent, the diversion [...]

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Right-wing radicals in Cologne are gaining traction with Germany’s first anti-Islamic party. The German domestic intelligence agency is alarmed — but so are traditional neo-Nazis, who may have to shift their tactics to compete. By Andrea Brandt and Guido Kleinhubbert more…

Radical Bookkeeping: German Neo-Nazi Party Under Investigation for Fraud
‘We Want the Cathedral, Not Minarets’: Far-Right [...]

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North Korea said on Friday it would boost its war deterrent, a day after the United States said it was sending its nuclear envoy back to Asia to discuss an atomic disarmament deal on which Pyongyang has missed a deadline.
North Korea failed to fully account for its nuclear weapons programme or answer U.S. suspicions that [...]

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