This is a YouTube video about the China threat. Bill Gertz gives a 7 minute talk on this issue.
The goal of IQ2 US is to raise the level of public discourse on our most challenging issues. To provide a new forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis. To transcend the [...]

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China is an island. We do not mean it is surrounded by water; we mean China is surrounded by territory that is difficult to traverse. Therefore, China is hard to invade; given its size and population, it is even harder to occupy. This also makes it hard for the Chinese to invade others; not utterly [...]

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I just wanted to let you know that I’ve added a Google map and YouTube videos to the end of each individual post page. Each post, starting a few days ago, is embedded with a couple of codes that tell some of the plugins which data to fetch. For older posts I’ve set up some [...]

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South America has a right to beef up its armed forces but is not in an arms race, Brazil’s defense minister said on Monday, as the region raises military spending on the back of high oil, food and metals prices.
Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, who is in Venezuela to discuss a planned South American security [...]

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This is the third time Israel has been connected to the BMEWS. The first was in 1991 before the first Gulf war and the second in 2003 before the US invasion of Iraq. Then, Israel feared Iraqi missile attack, which indeed materialized in 1991. Now, US military sources interpret the request as signifying Israel’s sense [...]

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Kfar Shuba, Lebanon — In south Lebanon, where the 2006 summertime war between Israel and militant Shiite Hizbullah was played out, villages are abuzz with talk of another devastating conflict between the two archfoes.
Over the past few weeks, military activity on both sides of the border has contributed to war jitters as both Israel and [...]

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Uncle Sam wants you—to help defend against Internet threats. But is the military any place for slackers and hackers?
The U.S. military is looking for a few good geeks. “This building will be attacked 3 million times today,” announces the commentator as the Pentagon appears on an ad available on the popular video site YouTube [...]

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Foreign policy experts with a wide range of specialties—from economics to military power to diplomacy—foresee sweeping shifts in global power dynamics during the twenty-first century. One of the most pressing questions for U.S. policymakers is how to confront these power shifts productively. Here, two experts with new books on the topic debate how the United [...]

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Even though it looks relatively peaceful on the outside, Northeast Asia is in fact the heart of the global military-industrial complex. The armies that confront each other in this region — the United States, Russia, China, Japan, and the two Koreas — are the largest in the world. They are responsible for at least 65 [...]

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BAGHDAD — A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran’s borders may be impelling Tehran to back its own allies in Iraq in what it regards as a proxy war with the U.S., according to security experts and officials in the U.S., Iran and Iraq.
Dozens of Iranian officials, members of the security forces [...]

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China may have been hoping to garner positive global attention in the run up to the Beijing Olympics, but the issue of Tibet has shattered its image. A new poll shows that Europeans now see China, not the US, as the biggest threat to global security. more…

The World from Berlin: ‘The West Is Mainly Interested [...]

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