Analysis & Commentary
‘Divide’ and Conquer?
If Paul Revere were alive today, he'd have his midnight work cut out for him. Most likely he'd be spreading the alarm not on horseback, but by Internet: The U.N. is coming! The U.N. is coming!
2 Uighur Gitmo Detainees Transferred to El Salvador
The Department of Defense announced the transfer of two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to El Salvador yesterday. The two detainees were not named in the DoD's press release.
Ahmadinejad’s Call for Talks: Olive Branch or Delay Tactic?
Ahmadinejad’s call for negotiations could also be a desperate attempt to stop sanctions from escalating any further. After all, they’re not insignificant.
Aiding the Policenet
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. A former Beijing business consultant and former visiting Fellow at PNAC, he is the winner of "Spirit of Tiananmen" and "Chan's Journalism" awards in 2005. He has written for Weekly Standard, Asian WSJ, Investor's Business Daily and other publications.
ANÁLISIS: Frenará la Carrera Nuclear el Embargo a Irán por Emanuele Ottolenghi
Ninguno, incluso potencias como China, que se oponen al embargo, están buscando reducir su exposición al crudo iraní. Además, si los países asiáticos continúan comprando su petróleo, el embargo perjudicará a Irán porque estos países negociarán para reducir el precio de crudo que compran al régimen de Teherán.
As Syria Violence Continues, World Leaders Do Little
The United States has closed its embassy in Damascus amid the Syrian ruling junta’s increasingly violent crackdown. As China defends its veto this weekend of a U.N. resolution that might have amounted to nothing more than strong condemnation
As The West Lets Down Its Guard
Is the West drawing the curtain on Ares’ toils? Will the 21st centurywitness an end to Western military engagement? There is an argument to bemade for the end of war in the West. Western societies have by and large banished war among them, live in peace with each other, and enjoy unprecedented prosperity.
Bordering On Tyranny
Set on the northern bank of the muddy Tumen River, this Chinese border town has one of the saddest backdrops in the world.
Borrowing From the Communists to Pay the Jihadis
The debt crisis, chronic high unemployment, the tumbling stock market, the credit downgrade -- these are, fairly obviously, symptoms of an economy in distress. We might disagree about the best policy responses.
Breaking China
The great 19th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov said it was a rule of the theatrical stage: If a loaded gun appears in the first act, that gun will be fired before the curtain falls. It's a rule of the world stage as well: If rogue states such as North Korea and Iran obtain weapons of mass destruction, we must expect those weapons will be used eventually, with all the death and destruction that implies.
Byline
Canada’s sanctions against Iran and Chinese and Russian resitance to sanctions.
Can EU Oil Sanctions Create a Turning Point in Iran?
The strategy of inflicting laser-like oil sanctions on Iran without disrupting global energy markets, and thereby reducing Iran's oil profits, was first developed by Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer and senior fellow at FDD.
CBS Evening News
FDD's Mark Dubowitz explains how sanctions are leaving Iran with few options for selling oil.
Chen Guangcheng, China’s One-Child Policy, and Abortion’s Slippery Slope
The whole world now knows the name of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human-rights activist from Shandong province who briefly took protective shelter in the U.S. embassy — before being released on Wednesday under a deal struck by the American and Chinese governments.
China Gets Cheaper Iran Oil as U.S. Picks Up Tab for Hormuz Strait Patrols
Instead, China’s oil executives are expected to demand lower prices for Iranian crude, said Mark Dubowitz, director of the Iran Energy Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an advocacy group in Washington.
China Goes on Safari
Understandably, the foreign policy focus of United States policymakers and media has been trained lately primarily on the ongoing events in the Greater Middle East, especially on the fight against terrorism, whether it is being fought by the U.S. or by allies like Israel.
China Says Wanted Militants Use Nearby Countries to Stage Attacks
Mr. Turkistani has been leading Chinese fighters inside the tribal belt since May 2010, when an American drone killed his predecessor, Abdul Haq al-Turkistani. In May 2011, Al Qaeda announced that Abdul Shakoor Turkistani would be leading its fighters...
China’s Play for Somalia’s Oil
As this column has chronicled over the past year and a half, United States policy toward the remnants of the former state of Somalia has evolved into a sort of dramatic farce played out in the following manner:
China’s President Hu Will Visit U.S. This Week But His Country Will Continue to Test U.S. Resolve
As President Obama prepares to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House this week, China is debuting new military capabilities and issuing threats of an arms race with Japan.
Chinese Bank Pulls Out of Pakistan-Iran Pipeline Project
"U.S. banks increasingly are not willing to do business with foreign financial institutions doing business with Iran," said Mark Dubowitz, an energy specialist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan think tank.
