Posted by Matt in December 1st, 2008 |
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China,
Economy,
Challenges,
Currency,
Economic Development,
Economy China,
Extent,
Global Economic Growth,
International Financial Crisis,
Jintao Hu,
Journalist,
Momentum,
Partner,
Ruling Communist Party,
Will Hutton,
Writing On The Wall,
Yuan
Don’t believe me? Here is what President Jintao Hu said over the weekend at a party meeting:
“In this coming period, we will starkly confront the effects of the sustained deepening of the international financial crisis and pressure as global economic growth clearly slows. … Whether we can turn this pressure into momentum, turn challenges into [...]
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Posted by Matt in August 23rd, 2008 |
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China,
Military,
1970s,
Beijing Olympics,
China,
Chinese Military Modernization,
Element,
Extent,
Modernization Programs,
Nuclear Submarines,
Olympics,
Pla Navy,
Russia,
Strategic Objectives,
Truce
With all the world’s attention focused on the Beijing Olympics and to a lesser extent, the “truce” in Georgia, we should not underestimate the serious implications for U.S. strategic objectives posed by the Chinese military modernization programs, (Russia’s announced modernization programs is another element).
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By 2010, the PLA Navy could have about 60 very modern to [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2008 |
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Published in
History,
Crime Against Humanity,
Documentary,
Extent,
Film Details,
Holocaust,
Holocaust Education,
Holocaust Survivors,
Holocaust Victims,
Met,
Tennessee
Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee is the setting for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 1st, 2008 |
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Published in
China,
Algae Bloom,
beijing,
Beijing Area,
Beijing Olympics,
Central Leadership,
China,
China Forces,
China Olympics,
Chinese Security,
Communist Party,
Embarrassment,
Extent,
Exterminators,
Failure,
Financial Times,
Financial Times Uk,
Grasslands,
Grave Shortcomings,
Hostile Groups,
Inner Mongolia,
Legitimacy,
Locust Infestation,
Locusts,
Northern China,
Olympic Games,
Olympic Nightmare,
Olympics,
One Fifth,
Political Challenges,
Regime,
sailors,
Security Chief,
Security Official,
Spectacles,
Washington Times,
Xinhua News Agency
What the Games Mean for Beijing’s Future.
Failure to plan for predictable problems has turned China’s coming-out party into an embarrassment.
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Yet even as Beijing has worked tirelessly to ensure the most impressive of Olympic spectacles, it is clear that the Games have come to highlight not only the awesome achievements of the country but also the [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 18th, 2008 |
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Published in
Terrorism,
Venezuela,
Colombia,
Confirmation,
Democratic World,
diplomacy,
Extent,
FARC,
Forensics Team,
Hard Drive,
Hard Drives,
Hugo Chavez,
Laptops,
New Era,
Pariah Status,
Terrorism,
terrorists,
United States,
Venezuela,
Venezuelan Government
Evidence of Venezuela’s support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves.
THE CONFIRMATION by an international forensics team that laptops and hard drives captured by Colombia originated in a camp of FARC terrorists ought to open a new era in relations between the democratic world and Hugo Chávez’s Venezuelan government. Whether [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 17th, 2008 |
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Asia,
West,
Burma,
Burmese,
Cyclone,
Despots,
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Extent,
Hopeless Situation,
Man Made Disaster,
Military Junta,
myanmar,
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Submissiveness,
Tragedy
NARGIS POSES HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA
The stubbornness of Burma’s military junta puts the West into a hopeless situation. If the international community wants to provide relief to victims of Cyclone Nargis, then it has to play by the regime’s rules. But the West’s submissiveness sends a dangerous signal to despots everywhere. By our reporter in Rangoon more…
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Posted by Matt in May 12th, 2008 |
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Britain,
Alarming State,
Censure,
Chinese Authorities,
Clouds On The Horizon,
Commentators,
Consequence,
Dangerous World,
darfur,
Extent,
Global Problems,
Military Machine,
Oil Output,
Political Debate,
politicians,
State Of Flux,
Storm Clouds,
Term Prospects,
Unstable Russia,
Urgency,
Zimbabwe
The world is in a state of flux. China is growing rapidly, but is very unstable. Russia has been doing much better economically in the last few years, but there are storm clouds on the horizon. Russia oil output looks like it may start to decline shortly. The Russian military machine is decaying faster than [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 6th, 2008 |
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Published in
China,
India,
Military,
Absence,
Agni Iii Missile,
Calcutta,
Crosswalk,
Defence Establishment,
Extent,
Fleet,
Hainan Island,
India,
Indian Defence,
Islamic Republic News,
Islamic Republic News Agency,
Missiles,
New Delhi,
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Nuclear Submarine Base,
Prowess,
Republic News Agency,
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Sheer,
South China Sea,
Southern Tip,
Submarine Reports,
submarines,
Tabs,
Underground
NEW DELHI: The absence of nuclear-powered submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles has come back to haunt the Indian defence establishment, even though plans are afoot to test the China-specific Agni-III missile within this week.
Though tabs were being kept on China’s underground nuclear submarine base on the southern tip of the Hainan Island in South China [...]
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