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Xi Jinping: China’s Conservative Strongman-in-Waiting
The world caught a rare glimpse of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s five-day visit to China last month. Xi is due to succeed Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at its 18th Congress in... MORE
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Taiwan’s Defense White Paper Shows New Candor on Challenges Ahead
In mid-July, Taiwan published the 2011 edition of its defense white paper (“National Defense Report”). This was actually the third such document released in the last 38 months—the Ministry of National Defense (MND) having published a white paper in the final days of the Chen... MORE
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General’s Spy Comments Reveal More Than Just Espionage
Remarks made by Major General Jin Yi’nan of China’s National Defense University at a conference earlier this year provide new insights into Beijing’s reaction to foreign espionage, which Jin believes showed moral degeneracy within China. Jin’s lengthy speech originally appeared on and was later removed... MORE
August 2011 Briefs
PAKISTANIS DOUBT LIBYAN AL-QAEDA LEADER KILLED After the United States announced the death of Attiyah Abd al-Rehman - the Libyan national Washington describes as al-Qaeda’s new number two ranking figure - in a drone strike in North Waziristan Agency on August 22, a U.S. official... MORE
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Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah Seek Greater Popularity through Threats to Kuwaiti Port Development
Last April the Kuwaiti government started building a new port on Boubyan Island near the marine border with Iraq. The port, named Mubarak al-Kabir (Grand Mubarak) after the founder of the Kuwaiti al-Sabah ruling dynasty, triggered the latest crisis between Baghdad and Kuwait, with the... MORE
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The North Caucasus’ Troubled August
It has become a tradition that August is an especially volatile month in the North Caucasus. This year has not been an exception, with the situation in the North Caucasus becoming more aggravated, especially in those regions that were relatively quiet in the preceding time... MORE
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The Uphill Task of Rearming the Russian Military
This week a major air show, MAKS-2011, opened near Moscow. The first MAKS air show was in 1993, and has since been held biannually, primarily to demonstrate Russia’s capability to build modern civilian and military aircraft, anti-aircraft and space missiles. The production of Russian civilian... MORE
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Is the FSB Covering Up Its Inability to Solve Previous High-Speed Train Attacks?
On August 15, the newspaper Kommersant, quoting sources in the Russian security services, reported that the Federal Security Service (FSB) had thwarted a major terrorist attack in Moscow region. A group of young North Caucasians allegedly planned to derail the high speed Sapsan train that... MORE
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Hot Issue– Has Al-Qaeda Opened A New Chapter In The Sinai Peninsula?
Executive Summary: In the absence of police and government security forces, al-Qaeda-sympathetic movements, including al-Shabaab al-Islam (The Youth of Islam), have formed in the Sinai Peninsula. The demands of these Salafi-Jihadist groups reflect both local and regional concerns. Among their demands are calls for a... MORE
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Russian Military Command and Control: A Giant Leap of Faith?
Since the transformation of the Russian armed forces began in October 2008, senior political and military leaders have promised to improve command and control (C2) both in terms of force structure as well as by means of introducing new technology. President Dmitry Medvedev has set... MORE