Evan Ellis: China’s Advance in Latin America has more Challenges than Xi’s Visit Suggests

China’s Advance in Latin America has more Challenges than Xi’s Visit Suggests I recently taught a course in China based on my soon-to-be released book, Chinese Companies on the Ground in Latin America. While there, I interacted with Chinese research colleagues and students who hope to be the next Chinese diplomats and managers relocated to …

Chuck Spinney: Wallerstein on China-Russia Grand Strategy

The self-referencing chattering class is up in arms about the $400 billion Russia-China gas deal, seeing it and the associated Russia-China alliance as a threat to the grand strategic ambitions of the United States to remain, in the words of President Obama at West Point, the world’s “indispensable”* power.  Taking place against the immediate backdrop of the prevailing US narrative** …

Yoda: Amazon Treats Books and Ideas as Common Commodity No Different from Hair Curlers Made in China

Bad, this is. How the Amazon-Hachette Fight Could Shape the Future of Ideas While the bookseller and publisher are battling over mundane business specifics, the state of publishing hangs in the balance. Over the past several months, what started as a quiet trade dispute has intensified and become public as the largest bookseller in the world, …

Jim Dean: Asian Boomerang — China Calls for Security Alliance with Iran and Russia — Changes Dynamics for Afghanistan, Middle East, North Africa

China Calls for Security Alliance with Iran, Russia Editor’s Note: Well, it looks like Obama the Peacemaker image took another hit today. China, which has no overseas military bases and no carrier battle groups sailing the seas to defend its customers, considers itself a target and not a threat. Imagine that! The US “divide and …

Evan Ellis: Latin America Engagement with China

Latin America’s Foreign Policy as the Region Engages China Security and Defense Studies Review (Volume 15 / 2014) This article examines the foreign policy of Latin America and the Caribbean toward the People’s Republic of China. It finds that, for those nations recognizing Taiwan most Latin American nations have had relatively few political differences with …

Berto Jongman: Sorcha Faal on Malaysian Airlines Suspicious Cargo, Diego Garcia, White Sands, Michelle Obama to China, and Saudi Arabia in the Cross-Hairs

Sorcha Faal (David Booth) known fabricator with a gift for being provocative in useful ways. 21 March 2014 Malaysia Airlines “Suspicious Cargo” Destroyed In Massive New Mexico Explosion 21 March 2014 [Russia Today] US nixes Persian Gulf summit amid divisions among allies 19 March 2014 [UK Daily Mail] No interviews, please! Michelle Obama’s China trip …

Owl: Did an Electro-Magnetic Pulse Bomb Take Down the Malaysian Airlines Flight to China?

Did a Non-Nuclear Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapon Take Down Flight 370? This article poses the theory that Flight 370 was taken down by a non-nuclear portable EMP device to work as a dry run for more future and large coordinated attacks against cities. This type of attack in essence fries the electronics of jets and …