NATO is closely watching China’s military expansion with an attitude of rising concern and wariness. Led by the United States, NATO members are starting to view China as a possible emerging common adversary.
In June last year, the Stockholm Peace Research Institute of Sweden claimed in a published report that China’s military spending had overtaken that [...]

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Iran, Cuba and Venezuela are working together against the U.S. by undermining democracy in Latin America, allowing trafficking of illegal drugs and creating safe havens for extremist groups, intelligence officials said.
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Dr. Bruce S. Thornton is a professor of Classics and humanities at California State University in Fresno. He is also a well-known conservative commentator and the author of the recently released Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow-Motion Suicide. His essays and articles have appeared at numerous venues over the years including Frontpagemag.com, Intercollegiate Review, National Review [...]

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France’s parliament has ratified the new EU treaty, which needs the approval of 22 more member nations to come into force. The French vote comes three years after voters there derailed the creation of a far-reaching European constitution. more…

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The findings of the recent US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran have rekindled debate on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and on the appropriate international response to its nuclear programme. It must be stated without illusions, however, that a government which has threatened Israel with obliteration and which is pursuing the most ambitious missile programme in the [...]

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President Vladimir Putin criticized the United States and NATO on Friday for military expansion toward Russia’s borders and said Moscow would respond by modernizing its military and weapons systems.
Putin also accused the U.S. of ignoring Russia’s security concerns in its push to build missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic as well as [...]

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The U.S. military is quietly exploring hypersonic technology that would propel missiles or aircraft at up to six times the speed of sound — nearly 4,000 mph.
Known by code names such as Falcon, High Fire and Blackswift, the experiments and tests are being kept closely guarded as the Air Force looks toward a future generation [...]

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Disaster-relief materials valuing about 820,000 U.S. dollars, provided by the defense department of the United States of America for freezing-disaster affected areas of China, arrived in Shanghai Friday.
Qian Lihua, head of the foreign affairs office of China’s National Defense Ministry, expressed appreciations of the Chinese side for the U.S. emergency humanitarian [...]

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France said on Thursday an Iranian rocket Tehran says is intended to put a satellite into orbit is in fact a missile that cannot navigate in space, and added to concerns that the technology is aimed at making weapons.
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A new strategic plan for the service warns against ‘ascendant powers’ even as many within the military urge a focus on unconventional threats like terrorism and insurgencies.
The Air Force’s top officer on Thursday presented a new strategic plan for the service that warns the U.S. cannot ignore “ascendant powers” seeking to challenge American military superiority [...]

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