October 2, 2009

Key pro-Obama institute adopts China line on its own threat assessment

A think tank from which emerged two key Obama administration policymakers issued a report last week supporting Beijing’s propaganda theme that China is not a threat and should not be so treated by the international community. Ten academics with the Center for a New American Security released a study called “China’s Arrival.” (FULL STORY)
Mobile missile defense systems [zoom] at the military parade on the 60th China National Day in Beijing, on Oct. 1. See also, Hu Jin Tao reviews the parade, female soldiers near Tiananmen Gate. AP
Beijing warms to DPRK, but don’t expect anything from revived six-party talks
Liberal intellectuals in China were unpleasantly surprised by the Chinese Communist Party’s decision to resume high-level contacts with Pyongyang. During Premier Wen Jiabao’s three-day tour to North Korea beginning Oct. 4, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il is expected to announce his country’s readiness to rejoin the stalled six-party talks, now scheduled to re-open in China late this year.  (FULL STORY)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao welcomed North Korean Prime Minister Kim Yong-Il
to Beijing in March.    AFP
U.S. ignores close ties between top China, North Korea officers
Hatoyama threatens shakeup of Japan's powerful bureaucratic, media infrastructure
   
Palin on China: Upholds hedge strategy, praises Charter 08 signers
Photo believed to be China's new DF-41 road-mobile ICBM
Report: U.S. reviewing policy following change of government in Taipei
Demographic realities portend poorly for China's long-term prospects

  INSIDE  NORTH  KOREA     
Kim Jong-Il achieves near-Kim Il-Sung status; New constitution drops the word 'communism'
North Korea has officially made Kim Jong-Il its "supreme leader" in a new constitution, elevating his status almost to that of the reclusive country's "eternal president," his late father Kim Il-Sung.
Goldman Sachs: A unified Korean economy could surpass Japan's, Germany's
70,000 Beijing taxis fitted with 'micro-eavesdropping devices'
North Korean asylum-seekers enter Danish embassy in Vietnam after three rejections

 
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