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China-Taiwan: For the record. Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration (CGA) will conduct a maritime rescue drill the week of 13 September with China's Maritime Search and Rescue Center, Taiwanese Central News Agency reported 10 September. The drill will be held in waters off southeastern China, between Taiwan's Kinmen Island and Xiamen, China.

Taiwan's CGA will send nine patrol boats, including a 500-ton patrol vessel, and helicopters to Kinmen. All participating ships and rescue teams will carry flags that symbolize the joint drill, CGA officials said, in an attempt to avoid territorial disputes.

NIGHTWATCH Comment: The drill will be the first time the two coastal patrol agencies will have held joint exercises.

Japan-China: The captain of a Chinese fishing boat was taken to a Japanese court on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on 10 September. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi demanded the “immediate and unconditional” release of the captain and other crewmembers, according to news relays.

South Korea-US: A US Defense Department spokesman announced today, 10 September, that the aircraft carrier USS George Washington will participate with South Korea in war games in international waters of the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula. The US spokesman said the deployment is not aimed at challenging China, but is a warning to North Korea.

Burma (Myanmar)-China: The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has begun construction of China-Myanmar oil and natural gas pipelines, according to Chinese media. The announcement coincided with a ground-breaking ceremony for a 200,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Anning city, Yunnan Province, China.

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October 6, 2010 · San Francisco

The annual Locations & Beyond Summit, previously known as Location 2.0, brings together leaders in the location and connectivity industries to discuss trends, share ideas and create a unified approach to market growth and innovations. Now in its fourth year, the Summit has an unrivaled reputation for attracting innovators and industry leaders and is a catalyst for generating ideas and solutions that work across networks, devices, industries and geographic boundaries.  

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Obama makes Abbas & Bibi an offer they can't refuse

Planetary Movement Middle East Update 9/5/10

The terms of the rapidly developing agreement appear to be based on the long-established parameters predicated on the 1967 borders and the right of return for a still undisclosed number of Palestinian families displaced by the Arab-Israeli wars.  An international force consisting of both Jewish and Non-Jewish as well as Muslim and Non-Muslim troops will be deployed on the West Bank to provide security for both nations: Israel and Palestine.

Contributing Editor Chuck Spinney: Looks like a cape job to me.  No mention of settlements and w/o rollback of settlements, a contiguous Palestinian state is inconceivable.  And what about the Israeli defensive barrier along lower Jordan River, an issue also related to water rights.  Still have the issue of water and Israeli preemption of West Bank Aquifer.  There is no way Israelis can back away from preemption, because 30% of their water budget comes from WB, and it is the highest quality water.  Netanyahu as long history of scuppering the peace process toward a two state solution  One possibility would be proposal for a single binational state of Israel and WB, but with Gaza handed off to Egyptians or UN.  Of course the devil is in the details, and given the Israelis history it is hard to imagine a binational state with equal rights for all, which would include the Palestinian right of return (since Jews already have it).  Best to wait and see.

China-Iran: China's Railways Minister Liu Zhijun will visit Tehran on 12 September to sign a contract between Iran and a Chinese company to build a $2 billion rail link to Iran, according to Iranian Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani. Transport ministers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran are expected to gather in Dushanbe in October to firm up the deal for a 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) route that links China and Iran.

NIGHTWATCH Comment: For more than a decade Chinese leaders have talked about linking Chinese rails with systems in Central Asia at meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Within the past five years, the Chinese have backed their talk with investment.

China has railroad projects in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma and now Iran. It has road and pipeline projects in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

Many of the projects are scheduled to be completed by 2012. Their cumulative effect would be to shift the economic focus of Central Asian states from Moscow to Beijing. The advantage China brings is that the Chinese rails would use standard gauge, making it possible to ship from the Pacific Coast of China to Turkey without changing bogeys or moving containers in order to accommodate different rail gauges.

Until the Chinese projects become operational, all rail traffic from Asia to Europe will continue to rely on Russian gauge railroads and multiple gauge changes in Asia and at the border of European states.

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Phi Beta Iota: Never mind the Caliphate, it's dead because India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Turkey want it dead.  Instead, think about the Chinese waging peace with construction, and exporting their excess males to take over Argentina and portions of Africa with war by womb.  We continue to be stunned by what war college scholars call “strategic decrepitude,” i.e. the confusion of powerpoint slides and operational motion with strategic thinking.  Below we list all primary references to China on this website; indirect references are too many to list.

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PENTAGON SEEKS “COORDINATION” OF MEDIA ACTIVITIES

The Department of Defense last week increased its efforts to require that Department contacts with the media be monitored and approved by DoD public affairs officials.

Secrecy News Comment:

As a practical matter, the degree of control over DoD contacts with the media sought by the Pentagon may be impossible to achieve.  The Department is too large (with millions of employees), too decentralized (with thousands of locations) and, perhaps, too open (with hundreds of reporters holding building permits at the Pentagon alone) to allow rigorous monitoring or “coordination” of more than a fraction of all external contacts and communications.

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