Category: China
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China in 2008
Every news channel I watched tonight had a package on how China, and her economy, will be the big story of 2008. Did anyone notice how China has avoided economic calamity? Did anyone notice the change of laws earlier this year allowing China to invest in US and UK banks? Many people forget that the…
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China surprise
What we can probably expect from China in the near future is specific demonstrations of strength—like its successful forcing down of a U.S. Navy EP-3E surveillance plane in the spring of 2001. Such tactics may represent the trend of twenty-first-century warfare better than anything now happening in Iraq—and China will have no shortage of opportunities…
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Liam Casey in China
James Fallows congratulates Liam Casey on his winning of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Casey was featured in the recent China special edition of the Atlantic Monthly. Fallows: Casey informs me that in the last day or two he has received a number of congratulatory messages from contractors and business associates.…
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Cian returns
Cian has posted some pics from his recent adventures in China. So that’s what these young ‘uns do during their summer between college years – feck off to China for a month. Wouldn’t have happened in my day.
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Chinese space weapons
Meanwhile, in Foreign Affairs two writers weigh up the recent Chinese anti-satellite missile test. Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is the author of Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy. Martin Kleiber is a Research Assistant at CSIS. Curiously and worryingly, they argue…
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War with China
Holy fuck. I genuinely had no idea that US nuclear missiles had increased in accuracy by such a degree in the last 15 years. Assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame Keir Lieber and Daryl Press who was a consultant on military analysis projects for the U.S. Department of Defense for…
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China delays space walk for six months
China are holding off on a space walk – but their prowess (regardless of reliance on Russian technology) is increasing. China’s planned space walk mission has been put back by six months and will not now take place until 2008. The scheduled launch of the Shenzhou VII rocket will be the country’s third manned mission,…
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China and the US
This week’s Economist carries a special report on China, I thought this map to be quite interesting. It details US troop deployments in countries within China’s reach. In Central Asia, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), a security forum comprising four Central Asian states plus China and Russia, is increasingly challenging America’s military presence in the…
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Chinese spacecraft back to Earth
It looks like a success for China, their prowess in space technology continues to grow.
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China countdown to space launch
Events like this might not seem all that important right now. But the next big area up for grabs is space, and whoever dominates space will dominate the planet. Hence the rising American interest in both protecting it’s existing assets in orbit, and it’s plans to stop anyone else from having as much dominance as…