1. Can Xi Jinping Bring Change to China’s Military?

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    Over the weekend Chinese President Xi Jinping issued an order requiring PLA and People’s Armed Police generals and senior officers [...]

  2. North Korea’s Nuclear Test: A Silver Lining?

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    It’s hard to imagine that a mushroom cloud can have a silver lining.  Certainly North Korea’s latest nuclear test (underground, [...]

  3. A New Game Plan For China’s Nuclear Arsenal?

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    In a system where order and sequences have a highly symbolic value, Xi Jinping’s first promotion of a military officer [...]

  4. New Leaders: New Attitude?

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    In the lead-up to the once-in-a-decade Chinese leadership transition in November, most experts on China agreed that new party chairman [...]

  5. Hu Jintao: Still “Commander-in-Chief”

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    The sun may be setting on Hu Jintao’s reign as the leader of Communist Party, but his career as commander-in-chief [...]

  6. Conditions Ripe for North Korean Nuclear Test?

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    North Korea has comported itself relatively well of late. Kim Jong-Un's moves to unseat some hardliners and his talk of [...]

  7. China’s Burma Fightback

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    If not quite Nixon in China, the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Burma this week has [...]