Zhao announced China would no longer support proliferation during a toast. Xinhua confirms. The obituaries will focus on Zhao’s support for domestic political reform in China as Premier (1980-1987) and General Secretary of the CCP (1987-1989). As premier, Zhao also reformed the national secuirty policymaking apparatus to improve civilian control and made significant policy changes …
NIC Exaggerates Future Chinese Defense Expenditures
by | 2005-01-16 | 3 Comments
The National Intelligence Council has released a new report, Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project, that leads with this doozy: China will overtake Russia and others as the second largest defense spender after the United States over the next two decades and will be, by any measure, a first-rate …
EU-Iran Complete Round of Negotiations
by | 2005-01-15 | No Comments
After a 13 December 2004 meeting of the EU3-Iran “Steering Group” (right) that Javiar Solana called “more symbolic than substantive,” Iran-EU working groups began to deal substantively with three issue baskets: economic-technical, political-security and nuclear cooperation. (Paul summarized the working group structure and schedule in Arms Control Today.) The Western press has done surprisingly little …
Remember Russia?
by | 2005-01-14 | No Comments
One approach to existential threats. A conversation I had yesterday with an esteemed arms control expert, as well as this article by my colleague Wade Boese, reminded me to write about a subject I’ve been thinking about recently. While it is good to continually point out that the Bush administration screwed the pooch on Iraq …
