China's Nuclear Threat, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb and STFU
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This past Sunday the Washington Post ran a piece on the possibility of a nuclear war with China. To my knowledge it's the first to appear in such an auspicious publication, so I'll quote it at length:Given China's appetites and our alliances and interests, a war is not inconceivable in Taiwan, or in Korea. To remove American nuclear escalation from the equation, China would need not parity but only a deterrent such as it has long possessed. The Chinese, however, whose nuclear thresholds are dissimilar to ours, would have other options. They know that every facet of America's economy, military and society depends on individual and networked electronic devices. Were these to fail all at once and irreparably, the nation would seize up, perhaps for years.Faced with victory, or with loss, they might choose to -- and who would venture to guarantee that they would not? -- detonate half a dozen high-megatonnage nuclear charges in the mesosphere, in an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) strike perhaps not even in American airspace, cooking almost every circuit and semiconductor, rendering the American government blind, deaf and dumber than it is already and the country unable to resist the inroads that would surely follow.  Heady stuff, written in a hawkish style reminiscent of the Cold War, but does it add up to a plausible scenario for toe-to-toe nuclear combat?
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If you invest in China, do so with caution.
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Discovery of the submarine image is likely to cause consternation within China's military.
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China's leader depends on ancient wisdom and communist doctrine to guide a modern empire
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What if the controversy over Tehran's nuclear ambitions results in U.S. airstrikes? Interviews with dozens of experts paint a sobering picture: military action against Iran's nuclear facilities would have a decent chance of succeeding, but at a staggering cost. And therein lies the excruciating calculus facing the U.S. and its allies: is the cost of confronting Iran greater than the dangers of living with a nuclear Iran?
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Remember the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world&#39;s food and suck up or pollute all its air and water?
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We are at war with Iraq. We have always been at war with Iraq.  This is the first time I've read 1984 all the way to the end, and I finally understand it, and why it's so important. Winston lost entirely, and it was the most complete loss that is possible. This was important, because it sticks in the mind.  Ironically, Orwell understood how to manipulate people's emotions, but he used this knowledge for the good of us all.
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Zhou Fenying is a living witness  to the dark history that still poisons China&#39;s relations with  Japan more than 60 years after World War Two.
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Wei Wenhua was a model communist and is now a bloggers' hero. He was beaten to death by Chinese city inspectors as he snapped photos of them beating villagers. The death has sparked outrage. "City inspectors are worse than the mafia," one blogger writes.
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People gather at the gate of No2 Senior Middle School in Ruzhou, near Pingdingshan, in China&#39;s central Henan province. Photograph: Xinhua/Zhu/Reuters.
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China tackled its snow crisis with a striking Â and uniquely Chinese Â display of communist mass mobilization, propaganda and state control.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's army of Internet users and operators are beginning to question the practicality and purpose of new controls on network - mostly on-line - music.
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BEIJING -- Scanning the headlines in the Chinese press, it's easy to conclude that the global brouhaha over product safety is not about China -- but about America.
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Blog: China surpasses U.S. as worst greenhouse gas emitter, earlier than predicted.
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William Langewiesche's new book on proliferation is quite scary. The good news is that he gets most of it wrong.
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'First of its kind in the world' China today carried its first successful test of a fusion reactor, Reuters reports.â¦