It was a dry bureaucratic announcement appearing in the official Granma web site (Translation). It signaled the end of Cuba’s Communist economy. Fidel Castro Here are some excerpts (sometimes paraphrased): “After 52 years, the Cuban Revolution is a living and
As President Hugo Chavez binds Venezuela ever tighter to every international enemy of the USA, at home he confronts high inflation, dropping oil revenue, a falling GDP, and a National Assembly election just a few weeks way. That said he
News reports indicating that the Chinese are heavily involving themselves in the business of India and Pakistan have become overwhelming during this administration. Obama’s commitment to India is clearly weaker than his predecessor’s, who in his White House was known
A week ago a curious package addressed to me arrived at my office. Having no (known) enemies I opened it at my desk and out fell a DVD with a hand-written post-it note attached. The note was from film producer
As pre-November primaries come to an end, inquiring political minds will be asking Americans, “What is the singularly most important issue that will drive you to vote this year?” Almost certainly, the answer will be “jobs.” Republican proposals to reduce
Speeches by prominent conservatives invariably include the assertion that they stand “for a strong national defense.” Unfortunately, for most conservatives today, “strong national defense” is merely a euphemism for three dubious measures: 1) Generously funding every item the Pentagon has
Is the Chinese military threatening the strategic posture of the U.S. and its allies in East Asia? Former CIA Director James Woolsey thinks so. He had the following to say on today’s broadcast of Secure Freedom Radio: Well, the Chinese
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, author Mark Helprin discusses his latest piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Hollow Talk in the South China Sea: If present military trends continue, the correlation of forces will shift much more
The news about China overtaking Japan as the world’s second-largest economy is actually quite relevant to the US climate and energy policy debate, which promises to continue despite the scientific scandal and evaporation of political will to associate with a
The Chinese are already discomfited by the spectre of U.S.-South Korean naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, but now their anxiety is increasing over the U.S. plans for drills in the South China Sea. The giant nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS
Carlo Kopp reports in The Diplomat: “The recent deployment of China’s first four indigenous KJ-2000 AWACS aircraft marks an important milestone in the PLA Air Force’s long march from being a ‘numbers intensive’ low technology force, to a much more
The future availability of our US crude oil supply is part of the current unrecognized international economic war. The objective of this conflict is control of natural resources, especially crude oil and natural gas, technology, shipping lanes, markets, job creating
The Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy has led tens of millions of couples to abandon or abort baby girls and created a huge and growing surplus of men. What does this all this excess testosterone mean for China and, more
“The people of the orient don’t think the same way about human life as we do.” That’s what was fed me in the Fifties when Red China was barely in the rear view mirror of my father’s car. I hadn’t
This is the latest in a string of stabbing murders targeting school children.
While newspapers in the U.S. struggle to survive the triple threat posed by the Internet, the perception of a persistent left-leaning bias, and the weak economy, newspapers in the People’s Republic of China simply struggle to report the news. Most
Reuters reports that China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. The World Bank and Goldman Sachs predict that China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy in a short 15 years, by 2025. While
I first interviewed the only man to successfully infiltrate the Weather Underground for the FBI – Larry Grathwohl – on November 2nd, 2008. It was two days before Barack Obama was elected president and what prompted that interview was a
For what purposes is China going to use its growing military? No, they are not going to invade Florida. (Just drill for oil some 50 miles from Spring Break). Nevertheless, they are asserting hegemonic power and it is primarily related
China’s military power has long been assessed almost solely in terms of its ability to use that capability to invade the Republic of China or Taiwan. This has led some wags to ridicule American concerns, describing the PRC threat to
Apparently both Red China and North Korea appear to be – and I stress the word appear – as unreasonable with President Obama as Obama has become blatantly unreasonable with the American people. Some might call it, in the case
The North Koreans are threatening a ‘sacred war’ and ‘physical response’ to the joint U.S.-South Korean naval exercises taking place in the Sea of Japan between Japan and Korea, and soon in the Yellow Sea between China and Korea. The
With no shock and awe and little pomp and circumstance, China has declared war on the world. Having watched the Gulf Wars on CNN, Americans are accustomed to wars fought with jets, battleships, tanks and infantry. We constantly are on
North Korea and China warn that joint military exercises by the US and South Korea exacerbate regional tension.
Southern China has been hit by typhoon Chanthu, the second in less than a week, as the death toll from floods and landslides across the country climbed to nearly 300 this month alone.
