Selling China The Rope To Hang Us | Investors.com

Posted by Matt in October 16th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, China, Clinton Administration, Commerce Department, Investors, Loral, Missile, Nuclear Missiles, Pentagon, Pentagon Report, Rope, Space Technology, United States National Security, White House

Perhaps Xu will bring with him a note of thanks for the administration’s decision to shift authority for approving sales of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department. …
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[The Clinton administration did the same thing. And as a result -]
A May 1997 classified Pentagon report concluded that Loral had “turned [...]

Is China Dangerous?

Posted by Matt in October 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Amp, Arts Entertainment, Astonishing Growth, Book Readers, China Hands, China Relations, China Today, Chinese Politics, Chinese Rulers, Clinton Administration, Communist Regime, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Detractors, Digital Cameras, Expert Analysis, Hostilities, Hu Jintao, Insecurity, Internal Politics, International Crisis, Invaluable Insight, Jiang Zemin, Laptop Computers, Lays, Magazine News, No Doubt, Palin, Political Cartoons, President Hu Jintao, President Jiang Zemin, Secretary Of State, Sleeping Giant China, Specter, superpower, Three Decades, Wasilla

But in raising the specter of U.S. conflict with China, Palin was not, in the main, wrong.
For a compelling discussion of just how not-wrong, treat yourself to China: Fragile Superpower by Susan L. Shirk, the Clinton administration’s deputy secretary of state for U.S.-China relations. Shirk lays out the ways in which China’s domestic political insecurity [...]

OfficialWire: China Hints At Unveiling Of New DF-41 ICBM

Posted by Matt in September 23rd, 2009 | 2 comments

Published in China, Added Bonus, Aerospace Academy, China Hints, Clinton Administration, Df, Icbm, Icbms, Missiles, Motor Technology, Nuclear Warheads, Officialwire, Profits, Rocket Motor, Selling Toys, solid-fuel, Unveiling, Warhead

Were you wondering what China was doing with all profits it made from selling toys to the U.S.? It was busy developing missiles with nuclear warheads and pointing them at U.S. cities.
As an added bonus, it is likely the nuclear warheads are based on U.S. designs. The designs for our top warheads were stolen by [...]

War? What War?

Posted by Matt in June 2nd, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Terrorism, Afghanistan, Clinton Administration, Contingency Operation, iraq, Lawyers, Misnomer, National Security Threat, New Administration, Phrase, Prosecutors, Random Crime, Sept 11 2001, Terrorism, terrorists, War On Terror, War War

War On Terror: The phrase is actually now a misnomer. Iraq and Afghanistan have been rebranded the “Overseas Contingency Operation,” and lawyers are being deployed to fight the real battles.
The strategy of the new administration looks a lot like the course the Clinton administration set us on before Sept. 11, 2001. And we know how [...]