Current U.S. headlines about China trumpet dubious dog food and lead paint in toys. Too bad all that is burying another important story. China’s emergence as an economic power has set off alarms among national security and military experts in Washington, D.C., about China’s rapidly rising military expenditures, including the acquisition of world-class submarines, development [...]

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Today’s geopolitical situation is quite different. China and Russia represent a return of economically successful authoritarian capitalist powers, but they are much larger (and thus potentially much stronger) than the defeated authoritarian capitalist great powers of the previous century. The risk is real that a powerful authoritarian capitalist order is emerging in the world that [...]

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Illegal networks selling nuclear technology to the highest bidder on the black market are posing a greater threat than ever, an expert has warned.
A speaker at non-proliferation talks in Washington said technology essential for enriching uranium was now freely available on the black market.
Others said that efforts to tackle the problem were tepid and in [...]

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Graph depicting Russia’s projected population decline over the next forty years
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Nationalism aside, however, there’s a nagging fear in the Kremlin that Russia’s new strength won’t last. Russia faces three emerging threats that analysts of its foreign policy often ignore.
First, the Russian population is shrinking.
Second, the government is not investing enough of its oil profits back into energy infrastructure.
Third, many of Russia’s most successful businessmen still [...]

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This is the first in a series of articles on how to prepare for nuclear war.
Preparing for nuclear war is going to be expensive, so I’m going to focus on how to make lots of money fast.
Do not be alarmed by this post. I am simply going to explain when and how to purchase options [...]

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For a long time, Taiwan has been relatively quiet about its long range missile programs. But recently, senior officials mentioned that Taiwan does have missiles that can reach targets deep inside China. Also mentioned was a recent wargame, where Taiwanese used these missiles to defeat a Chinese attempt to invade Taiwan. Apparently, someone is sending [...]

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If it wasn’t for Pakistan, we wouldn’t have an Iranian nuclear programme: expert
# China’s covert role in Pakistan’s programme acknowledged.
# Pakistan acts frequently badly when it feels encircled.
The security expert also acknowledged the covert role of China in Pakistan’s nuclear weapon programme. “I completely agree that if it wasn’t for China, Pakistan wouldn’t have a [...]

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In his new book “The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression,” Mann is of the Moynihan School: The late Pat Moynihan spoke acerbically of Western visitors who returned from China more impressed by the absence of flies than by the absence of freedom. Mann considers the Soothing Scenario’s implication — that American [...]

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What do Christian millenarians, jihadists, Ivy League professors, and baby-boomers have in common? They�re all hot for the apocalypse.
On the subway home, I read the essay in the new Vanity Fair by the historian Niall Ferguson arguing that Europe and America in 2006 look disconcertingly like the Roman Empire of about 406�that [...]

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