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• To deal with China, it should be strangulation, not bloodshed

  By suptweet on April 11, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  There is a lot of feverish flag waving and sabre rattling by rival local nations and by the world’s hegemon, the United States, about the islands that China has created and built airstrips on and dredged safe anchorages for. But… Read More ›

• South China Sea: China creates facts, builds ground to serve them.

  By suptweet on January 11, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  It was 1829 and a young nation seeking to protect key sea lanes dispatched a commodore to remote islets and reefs, “over which the sea broke.” He found safe anchorage and went on to report if a hostile power should… Read More ›

• Contaminated oil sent to China may be blended and grey marketed to an unsuspecting refinery

  By suptweet on May 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Contaminated oil stored at a pipeline terminal in Martinez, California has won rare export approval, and some is headed for China. This is an unusual event since California consumes all the oil it can produce or import. Where will it… Read More ›

• U.S. – China Security Perceptions Survey; a prelude to the Great War of 2014?

  By suptweet on January 6, 2014 • ( 12 )

  

  This is a mistake since internal public opinion can vector the range of options available to government and national elites in reaction to incidents such as the recent close encounter between the USS Cowpens and the escorts of China’s carrier Liaoning in international waters.

• Turkey and China: Taksim, Tiananmen and the circling squares

  By suptweet on June 5, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  New Hampshire’s state motto advises the people to “Live Free or Die” (生活或死亡). So this is a good place to read and ponder the news on Istanbul’s ongoing conflict in Taksim Square. At the same time, we can see the… Read More ›

• The imperfect cyber storm is coming and it’s not China – Mandiant cyber spying

  By suptweet on May 17, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  In a revealing discussion on cyber security at the National Policy Centre in Washington DC, Good Harbor Chief of Staff Emilian Papadopoulos and Richard Bejtlich, Mandiant Chief Security Officer discussed the technical and organisational challenges of defining and meeting threats… Read More ›

• Write about China and you can expect to be hacked

  By suptweet on February 5, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  At least if you write about Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao… The morning edition of my Washington Post claims Chinese hackers penetrated its computer systems as early as 2008 or 2009. Security precautions were implemented by the Post late in 2011 by its… Read More ›

• China’s oil thirst may wrench Canada’s rule of law – the global race for energy

  By suptweet on January 10, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  With China‘s Sinopec support, Canadian Premier Minister Stephen Harper‘s conservative government chose a wrong turn to the right, saving itself from a nasty brush with justice. Approximately 70% of the world’s bitumen (aka “The Tar Sands”) deposits are located in… Read More ›