BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China on Sunday stepped up censure of planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, as Chinese Internet users vented anger with calls to boycott top U.S. exporter Boeing and other firms involved in the sales. Although the Obama administration defended the package worth about $6.4 billion as necessary to boost regional security, the […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China needs no lessons about its Internet from the United States, the head of an online media association said through official media on Saturday after the United States rapped Beijing over information freedom. A speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday showed a lack of respect for China, which cannot […]
Posted by Erick Erickson While Americans are fixated on the weekend blizzard and the health care debate, the rest of the world is fixated on the disastrous “climate change” talks in Copenhagen. More importantly, though world leaders could not agree on much of anything significant, they could all agree on one thing: Barack Obama screwed […]
Beijing reluctant to keep bankrolling president’s belt-buster budget One day after the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao snubbed President Obama at the United Nation’s Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Chinese warned the United States that China’s ability to continue buying U.S. Treasury debt was limited. Zhu Min, the deputy governor of the People’s Republic of China, […]
From VirtualJerusalem.com: President Obama’s efforts to persuade China to countenance sanctions against Iran appear inconclusive. A joint statement issued by both nations after Obama met Tuesday with Chinese President Hu Jintao spoke only of “concern” at recent revelations that Iran has accelerated its efforts to enrich uranium and urged “engagement” and “confidence-building steps.” Absent was […]
Posted by Erick Erickson It has been almost 90 days since General McChrystal asked Barack Obama for more troops. No decision has been made. The General still waits as our soldiers keep dying. But that might actually be a better alternative to any decision Obama might make. As awful as that sounds, new information is […]
Julie Crawshaw To the growing number of China bears, add Kynikos hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, who is reportedly shorting the entire Chinese economy. Chanos, among the first to see through Enron’s web of accounting tricks, told Politico.com he sees a similar situation evolving in China — starting with the fact that the $4.3 trillion […]
Iran is ready to launch its second homemade spy satellite, with the Safir 2 rocket (Messenger of Ambassador) already in position on its pad, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report. The new satellite weighs 200 kgs, ten times more than Omid 1 (Hope), which was successfully tested only ten months ago, on Feb. 2. Tehran’s […]
The US Congressional Research Service reveals that Iran has helped Syria obtain “various forms of weapons of mass destruction” and missiles, as well as buying midget submarines – all from North Korea. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the North Korean miniature subs are capable of dropping small teams of commando forces on enemy shores, damaging […]
During the Bolshevik Revolution that led to communist Russia, Comrade Vladimir Lenin said, “Sell the capitalists enough rope and they will hang themselves!” Nearly 100 years later, Lenin’s predictions reveal his veracity with chilling fruition. The United States bleeds $11 trillion in debt. It suffers a $700 billion annual trade deficit, mostly with China, which […]
