The France referredum result and Bombing in London remind us that it's time to rethink the EU intergration porcess. Maybe this rapid developing process now faces an important crossroad. The porcess has been driven by the political elite around Europe since the very begining time, but the question is the distribution of benefit of the intergration process. The distribution of benefit gaps too wide not in the inter-governmental level, but also the dometic level. Now when the grass root p...
Kaplan's article on "How we would Fight China" in Atlantic Journal proved the existence of a possible dangerous furthur of Sino-US relationship: a kind of relationship highly possibly will appeare between a falling hegemony state and his perceived possibiled potential challenger. This kind of war is called preventive war: the falling hegemony defenitely will launch a war before his final fall and so that would shape the international environment so that it can keep his hegemony position a...
How We Would Fight China The Middle East is just a blip. The American military contest with China in the Pacific will define the twenty-first century. And China will be a more formidable adversary than Russia ever was by Robert D. Kaplan ..... or some time now no navy or air force has posed a threat to the United States. Our only competition has been armies, whether conventional forces or guerrilla insurgencies. This will soon change. The Chinese navy is poised to push out into...
The furthur of North Korea Nuclear issue full of high uncertaintity. Though North Korea claimed to return six parties talk in a unofficial way, the ball still on US side. The core issue of North Korea Nuclear question is a choice between security and idealogical primacy: if US wants to have a nuclear free Korea peninsula, it must repect North Korea's normal security need, unless US has prepared to afford another main theater war in the region which defenitely will destroy one Capital...
After 911, War become the only means to the end-- eliminate terrorism through war. But after nearly four years, maybe its time to think about an important question: does the means fit for the end? Can we really get rid of terrorism through a war? The answer is not as obvious as some people, i.e. George W. Bush, may think. You can kill some terrorists in the war, in a military action, but you can not eliminiate "terrorism" through war, because one of the main reason of terrorism deeply r...
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