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1913 Intel
China must reform or die
A Chinese two-star general has warned his conservative Communist Party masters and firebrand People’s Liberation Army colleagues that China must either embrace US-style democracy or accept Soviet-style collapse.
As officers of similar rank rattle their sabres against US aircraft carriers in the Yellow and South China seas, General Liu Yazhou says China’s rise depends on adopting [...]
U.S. to send supercarrier to Yellow Sea for joint drills with S. Korea: Adm. Mullen
The top U.S. military officer has dismissed China’s objections to the U.S. sending a nuclear supercarrier to the Yellow Sea for joint military drills with South Korea.
“This is international water,” Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told soldiers at Fort Lewis, Washington, Monday, according to a transcript released [...]
Absent Tax Increases, America Goes Dark | Paul Krugman , New York Times
We’re told that we have no choice, that basic government functions — essential services that have been provided for generations — are no longer affordable. And it’s true that state and local governments, hit hard by the recession, are cash-strapped. But they wouldn’t be quite as cash-strapped if their politicians were willing to consider at [...]
U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff – Bloomberg
But delve deeper, and you will find that the IMF has effectively pronounced the U.S. bankrupt. Section 6 of the July 2010 Selected Issues Paper says: “The U.S. fiscal gap associated with today’s federal fiscal policy is huge for plausible discount rates.” It adds that “closing the fiscal gap requires a permanent annual fiscal adjustment [...]
USS Truman posted opposite Hormuz as Iranian threats spiral
To meet increasingly defiant Iranian threats to US regional military forces, Washington has detached the USS Truman carrier from support duty for Afghanistan in the Arabian Sea and reassigned it to Dubai opposite the Gulf of Oman and the Straits of Hormuz with thousands of marines aboard.
DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security
China: General and scholar test reform waters
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doomed, which means we have entered a very dangerous period. It is not at all clear that the CCP will leave the scene quietly.
Will the CCP redirect people’s attention by starting a war?
Lieutenant General Liu Yazhou, political commissar of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) University of National Defense, the [...]
Major IDF Manuevers In Northern Israel Threaten Lebanon, Syria, Iran
Israel has decided to rattle sabers after losing one of its senior officers in the tree-trimming incident on the Lebanese border. In a story that was removed from the IDF website, it published an article about the maneuvers, reporting that the army is engaged in a major exercise all the way from the central Beit [...]
Nuclear Iran: The Point of No Return – Magazine – The Atlantic
For the Obama administration, the prospect of a nuclearized Iran is dismal to contemplate— it would create major new national-security challenges and crush the president’s dream of ending nuclear proliferation. But the view from Jerusalem is still more dire: a nuclearized Iran represents, among other things, a threat to Israel’s very existence. In the gap [...]
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