Tag: China

(AP) VP Biden trying to show US still focused on AsiaBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONIt’s up to Vice President Joe Biden to show that the U.S. effort to realign its gaze toward Asia hasn’t fizzled out. Biden is set to arrive

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Camels in Qatar found infected with deadly MERS virus China vs U.S. air confrontations are now a daily occurrence Netherlands loses its AAA credit rating Camels in Qatar found infected with deadly MERS virus

China began the week by escalating tensions with all its neighbors, declaring an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over islands belonging to Japan. Who this belligerence is meant to spook the most is still up for debate but, indisputably, the move poses its

Two improvised rocket launchers were fired near a US military base near Tokyo, police said Friday, adding no-one had been hurt. No damage has been reported so far and police have not found the projectiles.” Local media reported the pipes

(AP) Mexican drug cartels now make money exporting oreBy MARK STEVENSONAssociated PressMEXICO CITYMexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the country’s economy.

(AP) China sends fighters to ID flights by US and JapanBy IAN MADERAssociated PressBEIJINGChina said it launched two fighter planes Friday to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese reconnaissance and military planes in its new maritime air defense

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com India still vulnerable 5 years after ’26/11′ terrorist attack on Mumbai China sends jets into air defense zone, after flights by U.S., Japan and S. Korea U.S. and Japan conduct huge naval exercise off

By CHRISTOPHER BODEENAssociated PressBEIJINGChina said it sent warplanes into its newly declared maritime air defense zone days after the U.S., South Korea and Japan all sent flights through the airspace in broadening defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed

The U.S. is standing with Japan in the territorial dispute over islands in the East China Sea between Japan and China. The islands over which China declared “a new airspace defense zone last week” are called the Senkaku in Japan

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com CENTCOM delivers Thanksgiving dinners to soldiers in Afghanistan Nationalistic bloggers ridicule China over America’s B-52s Iran rejects White House summary of nuclear agreement CENTCOM delivers Thanksgiving dinners to soldiers in Afghanistan Marines at Forward

The debate over Diana West’s book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character has been far below the intellectual standard set by the book itself. Both sides now seem to regret the fact that the debate has degenerated

(AP) China says it monitored defiant US bomber flightsBy CHRISTOPHER BODEENAssociated PressBEIJINGChina said Wednesday it monitored two unarmed U.S. bombers that flew over the East China Sea in defiance of Beijing’s declaration it is exercising greater military control over the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.S. B-52 warplanes challenge China’s ‘Sea Air Identification Zone’ France to send troops to Central African Republic in ‘chaos’ U.S. B-52 warplanes challenge China’s ‘Sea Air Identification Zone’ B-52 Bomber America has flown two

(AP) Japan says China’s new defense zone unenforceableBy MARI YAMAGUCHIAssociated PressTOKYOChina’s new maritime air defense zone is unenforceable and dangerous, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday, in a continuing war of words over air space that includes the area

(AP) NY case sheds light on meth cooking in North KoreaBy TOM HAYSAssociated PressNEW YORKThe capture of five men in a Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation has given fresh insight into methamphetamine production in North Korea. The men pleaded not

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Egypt expels Turkey’s ambassador, Turkey retaliates Russia’s Putin scores a victory over the EU in Ukraine Ukraine commemorates the 80th anniversary of Stalin’s Holodomor famine In new escalation, China demands to control air space

The Chinese Defense Ministry on Saturday issued a map of an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone that includes a chain of disputed islands also claimed by Japan, triggering a protest from Tokyo. The United States also expressed concern

(AP) UN climate talks on ‘brink of collapse’By KARL RITTERAssociated PressWARSAW, PolandU.N. climate talks were deadlocked Saturday as the U.S. and China clashed over what role the Chinese and other fast-growing economies should play in a new pact to fight

China has announced that after 34 years of restricting population growth through its one-child policy, the nation will now allow families to have two children if one of the parents is an only child.   The policy “initially produced a population

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) —A U.S. congressional advisory panel on China, citing Beijing’s military buildup, warned its naval forces could dominate the western Pacific by 2020. In its annual report to Congress, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said