Chen Shui-bian dispersed the crowds that had camped out near the presidential palace by agreeing to an independent panel to investigate the election eve assasination attempt (The 1000 riot police didn’t hurt, either). Taiwan’s CTI Cable News is reporting that…
A spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Friday that China “will not sit back and look on unconcerned should the post-election situation in Taiwan get out of control, leading to social turmoil, endangering the lives…
“If NATO remains a military alliance with an offensive military doctrine, Russia will have to adequately revise its military planning and principles regarding the development of its armed forces, including its nuclear forces,” warned Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov recently.…
Air Force General Ronald Kadish, Director of the Missile Defense Agency, did it again. When asked about the relationship between space-based missile defenses and the “weaponization of space,” Kadish gave incorrect answers that might, as a result, appear misleading. For…
“From the standpoint of the threats we face at this particular time in the evolution of the missile defense systems, we don’t need to put weapons in space,” Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), recently…
CFR’s Henry Siegman holds court today in the smartest moderated discussion I have ever read at WashingtonPost.com. Seigman, who has an excellent background article and exchange in the New York Review of Books, notes: The “old spiritual leader in a…
My favorite Taiwan watcher, who shall remain nameless due to professional conflicts, just called me to share this little nugget: The KMT has made nine allegations of misconduct during the recent election. Nos. 1-8 are what you might expect: Specific…
A: 100, I hope. This is Canada-month for me: I was just in Montreal for a conference; I am heading to Switzerland for a space security workshop hosted by DFAIT to give a talk on missile defense and space security.…
Saturday’s presidential election in Taiwan will be close. The last crop of opinion polls (which were prohibited during the ten days prior to the election) showed incumbent Chen Shui-bian had closed to a statistical tie with the KMT candidate, Lien…
NATO is sending additional troops to quell the violence in Kosovo, which the OSCE believes was organized. In August, Rumsfeld suggested we reduce U.S. forces in Bosnia and Kosovo. It reminds me of when Governor Bush campaigned on withdrawing all…
