(AP) Biden visits Asia amid Japan-SKorea’s toxic tiesBy FOSTER KLUG and KEN MORITSUGUAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaWhen South Korean fans at a soccer game against Japan unfurled two massive banners honoring men considered national heroes for battling Japanese invaders, organizers took
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Australia faces strategic dilemma as rise of China challenges U.S. Obamacare: 500M lines of code, $500M, only 60% completed How could President Obama have been so wrong? The future of Obamacare Australia faces strategic
The historic IT disaster known as the Obamacare web site has been ofintense interest to me, since I’ve been a Senior Software Engineer fordecades, and I have personally participated in, witnessed, andreported on (as a technology reporter) a number of
(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
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) 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
(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
The unprecedented expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet over the last few years looks like it may be setting us up for a bond bubble and future currency crisis of historic proportions. Looking over the $17 trillion in national debt, and the Fed’s
(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
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
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
Fifty years ago, the nation stood in stunned silence as they learned that the President had been killed in Dallas, Texas. The shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a Communist. Over the years hundreds-of-thousands of stories have been thrown against the
CBC News: A volcanic eruption has raised an island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo, the Japanese Coast Guard and earthquake experts said. Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan Meteorological Agency said the islet is
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
(AP) North Korea detains US war veteran, 85, son saysBy FOSTER KLUG and ROBERT JABLONAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaNorth Korean officials detained an 85-year-old American veteran of the Korean War last month as he sat in a plane set to leave
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Lebanon bombing sharply escalates sectarian Mideast conflict Japan’s anti-China diplomacy given boost by Typhoon Haiyan Lebanon bombing sharply escalates sectarian Mideast conflict Bomb site outside of Iranian embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday (AFP) Twin
It was just after midnight on March 25, 1945 when B-29 bombardier Scott Downing and his crew dropped their incendiary ordnance on Tokyo and banked northeast to head back to the U.S. base. While banking, Downing noticed one of the bomb
(AP) Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Many questions lingerBy DAVID CRARYAP National WriterWithin hours of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, most Americans were familiar with the name Lee Harvey Oswald. Certain images of him — posing
By DAN SEWELLAssociated PressDAYTON, OhioKnown as the Doolittle Raiders, the 80 men who risked their lives on a World War II bombing mission on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor were toasted one last time by their surviving comrades
A typhoon that battered and terrorized the residents of Phillippine’s Leyta Island may have caused up to 10,000 deaths. The islands central city of Tacloban was hit by storms whose surges were as high as trees and collapsed some buildings.
(AP) Philippine typhoon death toll could reach 10,000By JIM GOMEZAssociated PressTACLOBAN, PhilippinesThe death toll from one of the strongest storms on record that ravaged the central Philippine city of Tacloban could reach 10,000 people, officials said Sunday after the extent
