The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration secured China's cooperation in dealing with Iran by holding out the specter of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. According to the Post, two senior officials on the National Security Council - Jeffrey Bader and the ubiquitous Dennis Ross [...]
Saturday Night Live isn't the only unusual source of criticism ot President Obama's trip to China. Max Boot notes that some Democrats were less than impressed. For example, Liz Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations stated:
It was, optically, one of the worst U.S. presidential visits' [...]With Russia playing President Obama like a fiddle, it's natural that China would want to get in on the act. Thus, it's no suprise that the Chinese regime invited Obama to Beijing. Nor is it any suprise that Obama accepted the invitation.
Gordon Chang, in the Weekly Standard, considers [...]
Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal have noted that President Obama's policy towards China is called "strategic reassurance." The policy apparently consists of making gestures and concessions designed to convince the Chinese that the U.S. is an innocuous player on the global stage, or at least in the massive [...]
The Uighurs are Muslims from East Turkmenistan who no doubt have legitimate grievances against the Chinese who have conquered and colonized their country, if such it ever was. But some of them decided to pursue jihad against China and went to Afghanistan to train with al Qaeda. They were there [...]
