Planet War: Photos from the World’s 33 Ongoing Conflicts | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in March 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Conflict, Africa, Civil Wars, Foreign Policy, Innocent Civilians, Planet Photos, Rag Tag, Southeast Asia, War Photos, World Conflicts, World Today

From the bloody civil wars in Africa to the rag-tag insurgiences in Southeast Asia, 33 conflicts are raging around the world today, and it’s often innocent civilians who suffer the most.
Planet War: Photos from the World’s 33 Ongoing Conflicts | Foreign Policy

The Next Contagion

Posted by Matt in February 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, British Government Bonds, Credit Instruments, Derivatives Market, Financial Contagion, Financial Instruments, Gilts, Global Debt, Global Financial System, Government Bond, Mortgage Market, Pantheon, Sledgehammer, Soothsayer, Southeast Asia, Sovereign Bonds, Sovereign Government, Sovereign Governments, Term Bonds, U S Treasury, Western Democracy

The next contagion is beginning to spread around the globe.
It is unexpected on Wall Street, misunderstood in Washington — and very dangerous.
It could sabotage the plans of the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and many of their counterparts overseas.
It is …
The Collapse of Sovereign Government Bonds
This is certainly not [...]

Weapons seizure hits North Korea hard

Posted by Matt in December 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Koreas, American Officials, Arms Sales, Asia News, Asia Times, Blow, Cargo Plane, Indonesia, Mystery, North-Korea, northkorea, Philippines, seizure, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, weapons

The detention in Thailand of a cargo plane transporting weapons and the arrest of its crew remain shrouded in mystery. The destination of the weapons and identity of their buyers is uncertain. American officials and analysts believe, however, that the intervention dealt a blow to North Korea’s arms sales.
Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news [...]

China’s prime potential enemies

Posted by Matt in October 25th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Army Documents, China Military, China S Military, Deployment, Enemies, India, Japan, Likelihood, Military Engagement, Military Preparedness, NATO, People S Liberation Army, Russia, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, United States, Vietnam, Weaponry

China’s military preparedness and strategic deployment of weaponry take into consideration a whole range of potential enemies, an analysis of internal People’s Liberation Army documents has revealed.
In order of importance – that is, the likelihood of actual military engagement – those enemies are Taiwan, the United States and Japan (as potential defenders of Taiwan), India, [...]

Escape from North Korea

Posted by Matt in June 4th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Brother And Sister, Brother Sister, Checkpoints, China, Chinese Border, Chopping Board, Collapse, Darkness, Desperate Choices, Exclusive Report, Execution, Exodus, Immigrants, Informants, Journey, Korea Government, Kwan, North Face, North Koreans, North-Korea, Obstacle Course, Perilous Journey, Refugees, Safe House, South-Korea, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Tors, Tumen River, Underground Railroad, Wall Border

So many people have defected from North Korea that the government is now building a wall along the Chinese border. This exclusive report follows one family’s dangerous exodus.
At a safe house in China, a brother and sister collapse into each other arms. For months, ‘Uncle Jung’ has been trying to smuggle his sister and her [...]

At least 100 dead as powerful quake hits southwest China

Posted by Matt in May 12th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, 100 People, beijing, Deadly Earthquake, Earthquake Risk, Earthquake Victims, Epicentre, Estimates, Hindu, Magnitude, Malaysia Star, Military Official, New Scientist, Nuclear Reactors, Powerful Earthquake, Powerful Quake, Quake Relief, Quake Toll, Richter Scale, Sichuan Province, Southeast Asia, Southwest China, Southwestern China, Swathe, Thai Capital Bangkok, Wall Street Journal, Washington D.C., Washington Times, Xinhua News Agency

A powerful earthquake struck Monday close to densely populated areas of southwestern China, flattening schools and homes and killing more than 100 people, according to early estimates.
The quake, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, was felt in cities across a swathe of southeast Asia including the Thai capital Bangkok, more than 1,800 [...]

Why Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict

Posted by Matt in May 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Oil, Bush Administration, Caspian Basin, Countries In Africa, Crude Oil, Developing World, Dozen Countries, East Timor, Emergence, Energy Imports, Energy Task Force, Grievances, Internal Strife, Michael L Ross, Oil And Gas, Oil Producer, Oil Wealth, Persian Gulf, Record Oil Prices, Rich Countries, Southeast Asia, Stratospheric Prices, Unrest, War, Windfalls

The number of oil-producer-based conflicts is likely to grow in the future as stratospheric prices of crude oil push more countries in the developing world to produce oil and gas. In 2001, the Bush administration’s energy task force hailed the emergence of new producers as a chance for the United States to diversify the sources [...]

The Curse of Oil Wealth

Posted by Matt in May 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Oil, Caspian Basin, Chad, Conflict, Correlation, Countries In Africa, Curse, Diamonds, East Timor, Internal Strife, minerals, myanmar, Oil And Gas, Oil Wealth, Ross, Southeast Asia, Violence

And the correlation between oil and violence is likely to grow stronger, since as Ross points out, countries in Africa, the Caspian basin, and Southeast Asia will soon become “significant oil and gas exporters. Some of these countries, including Chad, East Timor, and Myanmar, have already suffered internal strife. Most of the rest are poor, [...]

Guess Who’s Coming to Power

Posted by Matt in March 30th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Amazon.Com, China, Europe, U.S., Amazon Asin, Arab World, Asia America, Central America, Central Asia, China, Cusp, Eastern Europe, European Union, european_union, Foreign Policy, Limited Resources, Multipolar, New World Order, Policy Scholar, South-America, Southeast Asia, Superpowers, United States

Now, a young, well-traveled, multilingual foreign-policy scholar, Parag Khanna, suggests in “The Second World” that we are on the cusp of a new new world order â€” â€œa multipolar and multicivilizational world of three distinct superpowers competing on a planet of shrinking resources.â€ The three are the United States, the European Union and China. The [...]