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One more thing. As I mentioned earlier, asymmetric warfare is only a small part of UW, being just one of eight points mentioned in the conclusion. Another one of the eight is minimal consumption. ...

Well, yes, my point exactly. The interesting part about Chinese strategy is that they often try to bundle the strategy and the propaganda - including sometimes the philosophy about how a country...

Coming from an approach of studying Chinese philosophy, there are a couple of points that I consistently see military folks getting wrong about Unrestricted Warfare, the 1999 piece by two PLA...

This Chinese model is undoubtedly a viable way for NK to get out of their current mess. I would just caution though that just because China is right next door, and has some cultural heritage in...

This is a tangent, but I just want to say that I didn't say they were "rocking the boat." Just that their sheer weight, and what people project it to be in the future, has caused some creaks and...

But you have to see things in their broader context here. For instance, if we're talking about the current financial crisis, one could certainly point to internal faults in America's financial...

Well, so I got that timeline wrong. The Sino-Soviet split was in the '60's, Nixon's diplomacy in the '70's. He he, nobody look at me. :-|

However, restricting this argument to Japan, rather...

China wasn't going to split with Russia publicly unless it got something for its troubles. The US was Taiwan's main source of legitimacy, and Taiwan was China's biggest foreign policy objective. So...

Necessary but not sufficient. That put them in a position to open up; they still needed a competent leader who could understand their situation and take advantage of it, which didn't happen until...

George: a couple of thoughts. North Korea has been opening up to the world in recent years, exposing people to this kind of material lifestyle. At the same time, its leadership has been becoming...

That's the thing. The apology is that the Korean War was a strategic, rather than a moral, mistake. The only costs this would impose on the US would be what it has already had to put up with. ...

I'm talking specifically about historical apologies. The presidential visit is nice pomp, but it only comes on top of some kind of major policy change.

I believe Madeleine Albright apologized to...

Iran is a different question. US policy debates tend to mention them in the same breath, but I'm not convinced they themselves think of themselves of having anything to do with each other.

The...

Confucian culture is all about respect to one's superiors. All Confucian cultures are more centralized than their respective Western Communist or capitalist counterparts. Sometimes, Confucian...

I'm not sure if this is totally on topic for this thread, and it may even contradict things I've said earlier, but it's something I've been thinking about. Obama's big denouncement of Holocaust...

I've also had similar thoughts about such a trade, and I'm not quite as skeptical as some here. Giving up Taiwan is not going to be a blow to democracy everywhere, or make our allies distrust us. ...

While that's true, foreign policy also has the potential to be one of those wild card issues that could inspire single-issue voters. Remember how Vietnam became an issue in the 2004 election, for...

One thing I forgot to reply to before.


In terms of the historical big picture, I believe that Xinjiang is the only really successful case of outside colonization of a Muslim land. So from that...

A number of points here.

First, the argument that Israel wasn't real reason for Muslims' discontent. From my (Asian) perspective, my reaction would be that WWII isn't the real reason China hates...

This is a line of thought I've been tinkering with a little bit. China shares quite a bit of history with the Muslim world. First of all, both of these are ancient civilizations, with quite a lot...

Certainly China seems to be taking this notion of economic warfare seriously. Their recent proposal of an IMF-backed international currency fund simultaneously discredits the US dollar, while...