by Russ Wellen | Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
I have a friend who, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, worked with Russians on securing their nuclear weapons. To this day, the casualness she encountered about their loose nukes continues to puzzle her. It’s as if they didn’t take seriously or...
by Tanaka Sakai | Sep 29, 2010 | War & Peace
After a collision, the captain and others were arrested by the Japan Coast Guard’s patrol ship for interfering with official duties. At the time, over 100 Chinese boats were fishing in the area. Kubajima (Ch: Huangweiyu, “yellow tail island”), which...
by Russ Wellen | Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
“As the United States and China become great power rivals, the direction in which India tilts could determine the course of geopolitics in Eurasia in the 21st century,” writes renowned journalist Robert Kaplan in a paper titled South Asia’s Geography...
by Anna Kalinina | Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Why would China jeopardize its relationship with the United States, the former Soviet Union, Vietnam, and much of Southeast Asia to sustain the Khmer Rouge and provide hundreds of millions of dollars to postwar Cambodia?” asks Sophie Richardson in China,...
by Peter Lee | Jul 18, 2010 | War & Peace
With respect to China, this approach was presented as a doctrine of “strategic reassurance”. However, the policy has not yielded the systemic breakthroughs that the Obama administration hoped to achieve on climate change, non-proliferation, Middle East...