I’ve now had an opportunity to spend considerable time looking at the declassified documents in Tracking the Dragon: Selected National Intelligence Estimates on China, 1948-1976. Despite my initial reaction that the release was a real goldmine, I can’t help but…
Former Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen has issued a scathing critique of the Bush Administration in the China Daily. Almost amusing was State Department flack Adam Ereli fumbling questions about the article: QUESTION: Adam, a former senior Chinese official, former…
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The CIA has partially declassified “over seventy National Intelligence Estimates on China covering the period 1948-76.” The Agency claims this is “the largest such release ever made at one time.” The documents were also published in a book and CD/ROM…
Sorry for the long lapse in posts—the Chinese internet browser was not letting me use blogger. ISODARCO is off-the-record, but you’ll probably see little bits and pieces pop up over the next few weeks. Something I can say is that…
I’ll be giving a talk, Space Weaponization Spending in FY2005 Defense Budget, at the 9th PIIC Beijing Seminar on International Security (12-15 October 2004) in Nanjing, China. Yes, the Beijing Seminar is being held in Nanjing. How should I know?…
I was reading the Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) when I came across a most unusual column. It appears that someone felt that a CCTV program called “The Missile Brigade Commander” lacked realism. So, in case you had any questions, this…
After some adventures in pagination, I successfully submitted the final copy of the dissertation, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age, today. For my defense, I dispensed with a powerpoint presentation. Edward Tufte, in…
China and Russia submitted a pair of non-papers to the Conference on Disarmament in speeches by Ambassadors Leonid A. Skotnikov (Russia) and Hu Xiaodi (China). The two speeches had a de facto division of labor, with Skotnikov talking substance and…
A Military Intelligence Failure? The Case of the Parasite Satellite (Gregory Kulacki and David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists, 16 August 2004) is now on-line. Take a moment to read it, then imagine the humiliation for the person who wrote…
