A breakdown in the entire Chinese political order might mean that going to war wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Historically, China has re-focused attention by going to war with its neighbors. Taiwan may be in their sights this time, or another war option may present itself.
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This unrest (As USA Today reported) is [...]

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Can China risk a major war in Asia or even a military adventure beyond its borders? The answer is no. Why then is China building its military machine at an annual cost of more than US$60 billion? The answer: to intimidate its neighbors.
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By Peter Zeihan
As students of geopolitics, we at Stratfor tend not to get overexcited when this or that plan for regional peace is tabled. Many of the world’s conflicts are geographic in nature, and changes in government or policy only rarely supersede the hard topography that we see as the dominant sculptor of the international [...]

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The Israeli premier has voiced his willingness to evacuate Israeli troops from Shebaa Farms to hand the area to the UN, a report says.
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Israel, tell me this isn’t true? This is trading land for nothing. You will not get peace.
Israel, if you want peace then pray to God for war. You [...]

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The rise of the newly aggressive Russia carrying out international assassinations, threatening its neighbors, distributing weapons to America’s enemies, confronting US forces and seemingly bent on resurrecting all its old bad habits baffles many who thought that the Cold war had ended with the fall of Communism.
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Damascus suspects Israel decided to return to negotiations due to its failings in the Second Lebanon war and the realization that it could not live securely among its neighbors without peace, Syrian President Bashar Assad told an Indian newspaper.
“The Israelis used to think that with time they were going to be stronger and any opposition [...]

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South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan resumed peace talks May 20 amid reminders of how vulnerable the two nations are to terrorism. Bombings in Jaipur (IANS) allegedly by Bangladeshi extremists and heightened tension (CSM) with Pakistan across the long-disputed border in Kashmir has New Delhi on edge. The U.S. State Department’s 2007 report on [...]

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The spread of long-range ballistic missiles took a step forward on May 7 with India’s successful flight test of its Agni-III missile that can carry a nuclear warhead as far as Beijing.
But the difference between this and other missile developments is that India’s missiles — like those of the United States, Britain, France and Israel [...]

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WMD: The Mideast has long been “explosive,” but more than a dozen countries there have now been emboldened to go nuclear. Further delays in stopping Iran’s nuke program could turn it into an atomic Wild West.
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So the belief that there will indeed be a nuclear-armed Iran in the not-so-distant future is setting its neighbors on [...]

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Iran’s disputed nuclear program has sent a wave of interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, a think tank said Tuesday, warning that it risked setting the scene for a regional nuclear arms race.
At least 13 Middle Eastern countries either announced new plans to explore atomic energy or revived pre-existing nuclear programs between February [...]

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I don’t know about you, but the sight of Russian missiles rolling across Red Square made me a little nervous. It’s the Russian way of subtle intimidation.
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If anyone was having trouble grasping the fact that Russia has an image problem, the sight of intercontinental ballistic missiles rolling across Red Square on Victory Day [...]

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