$100 Billion For China’s Railroads

$100 Billion For China’s Railroads

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October 19, 2012 | By Trefor Moss
Picture a vast Chinese state institution with around two million staff, comprising a baffling array of units and sub-departments all [...]
The Philippines’ Great National Security Challenge (and it’s NOT China)

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October 11, 2012 | By Mong Palatino
The Philippines’ weak defense capabilities were made painfully evident during its maritime dispute with China in the South China Sea [...]

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Trefor Moss

Trefor Moss is an independent journalist based in Hong Kong. He covers Asian politics, defence and security, and was Asia-Pacific Editor at Jane’s Defence Weekly until 2009. He can be followed on Twitter @Trefor1.

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Devindra Sethi

Captain Devindra Sethi is an alumnus of India's National Defense Academy, the College of Defense Management, the College of Naval Warfare and the War College in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Indian aircraft carriers INS Viraat and INS Vikrant were brought back to "combat state" from refit in the 1990s by Captain Sethi. He is a successful entrepreneur in the maritime industry and fluent in English, Russian and Hindi.

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Harry Kazianis

Harry Kazianis is the former editor of The Diplomat. He has previously served as Deputy Editor of E-International Relations and is currently a non-resident WSD Handa fellow at CSIS:PACNET. His area of expertise is security studies with a strong regional focus on the Asia-Pacific, naval affairs and asymmetric warfare.

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J. Michael Cole

J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based journalist who focuses on military issues in Northeast Asia and in the Taiwan Strait. He previously served as an intelligence officer at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. You can follow him on Twitter: @jmichaelcole1.

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Robert Farley

Robert Farley is an assistant professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. His work includes military doctrine, national security, and maritime affairs. He blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money and Information Dissemination, and can be found on twitter at @drfarls.

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Rory Medcalf

Rory Medcalf directs the international security program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and is also a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution. He is a former diplomat, intelligence analyst and journalist whose work covers a wide spectrum of strategic and geopolitical issues in Indo-Pacific Asia. Follow him on twitter @Rory_Medcalf.

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Zachary Keck

Zachary Keck is Assistant Editor of The Diplomat. He has previously served as a Deputy Editor for E-IR and as an Editorial Assistant for The Diplomat. Zach has published in various outlets such as Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and World Politics Review.

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