Navy Upping the Ante
Just a little bit, by sending Aegis destroyer Chung-Hoon to the South China Sea to protect the Impeccable, the ship that was harassed by Chinese ships while conducting submarine surveillance.
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For your reading pleasure: 1. The Treasury Dept. is set to announce new regulatory controls over previously unregulated financial transactions. 2. The Pentagon says in a new report that China is...
View Article"Ghost Network"
Suspected Chinese hackers have upped the ante in cyberspace, hacking into almost 1,300 foreign machines around the world for unknown reasons, stealing sensitive documents and logging the activities of...
View ArticleNot Exactly
In a long post about the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, Ross Douthat makes this minor point regarding comparisons of Iran to the Soviet Union: I think a better analogue still would be Mao’s China,...
View ArticleObama names GOP Utah Gov. Huntsman as ambassador to China
Via Politico: President Barack Obama named Republican Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. as his pick for ambassador to China, likely removing one of his strongest potential challengers in the 2012...
View ArticleLegislative Update XIV
Congress sent President Obama two bills this week aimed preventing foreclosures and regulating the credit card industry, though with the price of allowing guns in national parks. Both chambers of...
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Twenty Years
“This anniversary provides an opportunity for Chinese authorities to release from prison all those still serving sentences in connection with the events surrounding June 4, 1989. We urge China to cease...
View ArticleUighurs
You may be familiar with the Uighur people as a result of our years-long detention (and recent deportation to Bermuda) of Uighur separatists held at Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of terrorism. It appears...
View ArticleSimmering
Via Boing Boing, a good explanation of why resentment in Xinjian province has simmered for some time, and what should be done now that it has erupted in such spectacular fashion. UPDATE: Scott Horton,...
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