NIGHTWATCH: China Downgrades North Korea on Oil & Militancy

China-North Korea: China did not export any crude oil to North Korea in February, Reuters reported, citing customs data. It marks the first time since early 2007 that no deliveries were made. Comment: China exports crude by means of a pipeline to North Korea’s west coast refinery at Sinuiju. The pipeline has a throughput capacity …

NIGHTWATCH: China Declares Peace with US, Taiwan, and the Region — The Chinese Dream is About Retrenchment & Revitalization

China: The National People’s Congress ended on the 17th with a press conference by Premier Li Keqiang. Before the closing, however, President Xi Jinping delivered his first address to the Congress. The central theme was The Chinese Dream. Eight of the 17 paragraphs of the text were devoted to, or carried forward the application of, …

Review (Guest): The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health

  T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell 2,496 of 2,682 people found the following review helpful 5.0 out of 5 stars Every doctor, teacher and parent needs to read this book! January 25, 2005 By Howard Jacobson, PhD T. Colin Campbell has made a career of challenging the conventional wisdom around nutrition, and this …

John Robb: Cyber-War with China — Wrong Answer (and Robert Steele with Better Answer)

Cyber Deterrence against China? The only route left is an Open Source Approach Is there a way to deter cyber attacks? Yes. Two ways. One takes a moral high ground. I won’t waste any time discussing that option. Why? After flame/stuxnet, and the unilateral escalation of the cyberweapons arms race by the US, that option …

SchwartzReport: Brain Imaging Reveals Specific Thoughts — Robotics and 3D Printing Startle China — Other than Eugenics Club, No One Thinking About Future of Humanity

This is both exciting and wonderful, it could be of enormous significance in medicine, and in near death experience research to cite just two areas. It could also be deeply alarming, because the shadow of this research is the thought police. You wouldn’t be safe even inside your own head. Once again science and technology …

NIGHTWATCH: China-India-Russia Confer on Afghanistan

China-India: Chinese media reported that India and China have agreed to start a dialogue on Afghanistan. An “in-principle” agreement on official-level dialogue has been reached and dates for the first meeting are being worked out. Earlier this week, Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon travelled to Moscow for the first three-way dialogue between India, Russia …

For the Record: Chavez Dies, China Admits Cancer Villages

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela Dies at Age 58 CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of …