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Category Archives: U.S. Foreign Policy
January 6, 2012
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Iranians Gloomy about War
Life in Iran is becoming uglier by the day, and Iranians are beginning to feel the pressure. The currency is falling, prices are rising, the economy is cratering, and to top it off, people on the street believe war is … Continue reading
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Declinists Wrong Again
The Arab Spring, the Iraq withdrawal and subsequent military cuts have led some naysayers to speculate that America’s influence in the Middle East will decline. But Via Meadia thinks these predictions may be premature. Bloomberg reports: Turkey will purchase two … Continue reading
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Angry India Kills Goodwill Military Mission to China
India has canceled a military delegation visit to China on a ‘confidence building’ tour after Chinese authorities refused to give a visa to one member of the delegation. The rejected officer is a native of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India; … Continue reading
January 5, 2012
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Navy Wins More Than a Football Game
The Navy’s 27–21 victory in last month’s annual Army-Navy game, the tenth straight win for the Midshipmen, isn’t the only way Navy is beating Army these days. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s new military budget proposal envisions extensive downsizing in the … Continue reading
January 4, 2012
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Build it, or They Will Come
News from the WSJ will dishearten bohemian Global Greens and buttoned-up Pentagon planners alike: the Chinese are coming—to Canada. Yet another Chinese state-owned oil firm has acquired rights to develop Canadian oil sands, this time with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. securing … Continue reading
January 3, 2012
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Iran: Time for the Enemy to Vote
The new U.S. sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank are already taking their toll on Iran, reports the Washington Post: Iran’s ailing currency took a steep slide Monday, losing 12 percent against foreign currencies after President Obama on Saturday signed a … Continue reading
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Blue Meltdown Hits The Pentagon
Budgetary meltdowns in states and municipalities throughout 2011 have made one thing abundantly clear: the Blue Model is slowly bankrupting America at all levels of government. It isn’t just rust belt cities with public unions that are feeling the pain: … Continue reading
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China Feeling Hemmed In
An interesting piece in the NYT this morning looks at what Chinese leaders see as a dangerous problem of cultural encirclement. From the lead: President Hu Jintao of China has said that the West is trying to dominate China by … Continue reading
January 2, 2012
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Iran Spits Nails As Sanctions Bite
Iran is rolling out one defiant step after another these days. In recent days it has begun ten days of naval games in the Straits of Hormuz while warning that it would close those straits to oil shipments if it … Continue reading
December 30, 2011
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Chavez Falls Off The Edge of the World
Hugo Chavez has a new theory: that the US has developed a secret technology and is using it to give cancer to left wing Latin American rulers that we don’t like. After all, Fidel Castro, the Hero of Venezuela himself, the president of Paraguay, the current and former presidents of Brazil and now Cristina Kirchner of Argentina have all come down with (quite different) cancers. Bringing the logical acuity and sure grasp of the laws of probability and of cause and effect that he brings to all his policy making, Chavez, the Times of India reports has shared his reasoning with the world:
“It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now … I don’t know. I’m just reflecting,” he said in a televised speech to troops at a military base. “But this is very, very, very strange … it’s a bit difficult to explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities.” Continue reading
December 29, 2011
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US Play for Pacific Prosperity
The Wall Street Journal has published a piece I’ve written on America’s emerging Pacific policy. It’s a policy that has roots in both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and rests on ideas that date back before the American … Continue reading
December 28, 2011
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The Lamb of Georgia Strikes Again
As the heavily staged mourning for the “Dear Leader” grinds on, it’s worth noting that former US President Jimmy Carter has reportedly sent his personal condolences to North Korea upon the death of the old dictator and wished his son … Continue reading
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Japan Deepens Defense Cooperation With US
Rising concern about China’s foreign policy plans continues to reshape the political geometry in Asia. Japan’s announcement that it is reducing limits on arms exports is yet another sign that Japan is moving toward a more assertive regional role in … Continue reading
December 26, 2011
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Japan And China: BFF?
Following six weeks of big pro-US moves by Japan, Tokyo is also signing deals with China. As the Wall Street Journal reports, last week saw a package of economic agreements that could help ease the Chinese yuan into a more … Continue reading
December 25, 2011
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China To Fund Iran-Pakistan Pipeline?
The Times of India reports that Pakistan has named the largest bank in China to lead a consortium of funders who will finance a $1.2 billion natural gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan. Reporting on a visit by the highly … Continue reading
