By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The image of South Korea’s highly conservative, arch-capitalist President Lee Myung-Bak waving happily in a sea of little paper flags featuring a gold star in a red field was just another ceremonial photo for the Seoul media. The picture, Lee smiling as he and Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang and wife […]
By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Since the mid-2000s, “authoritarian resilience” has been a fashionable theory put forward by a host of famous Western Sinologists for explaining the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ability to hold on to power. The theory goes that the authoritarian regime has strengthened its proverbial “mandate of heaven” by making smart policy adaptations […]
By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Chinese leadership is taking very seriously Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s statement that after curtailing its involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, Washington would focus more of its energy and resources on the Asia-Pacific Theatre. Panetta said in Tokyo last week that despite overall cuts in the Pentagon budget, “we are not […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Kuwait has expanded its presence in China’s energy sector. The state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp. has reached agreement to participate in a major Chinese energy program. KPC intends to acquire 20 percent of a $9 billion energy project in China. “The partnership with one of the international oil companies will […]
Lev Navrozov In 1949, Mao named his country the “People’s Republic of China.” Historically, China had practically no foreign visitors, just as practically no Chinese had visited the outside world. While Lenin and many other future “Soviet leaders” had been living a great deal in free Western countries, Mao was a pure product of China, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com from east-asia-intel.com Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress last week that U.S. military strategy under budget cuts will lead to a lessening of emphasis in areas of the world where Al Qaida is emerging as a growing threat. Panetta said in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Oct. 13 that smaller […]
By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The just-ended plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee provided little information about the 18th Party Congress, except to say that it will be held in the second half of next year. However, party insiders said the 370 full and alternate members spent a good part of their […]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com, Oct. 12, 20011 Inside China, by Willy Lam Nobody takes culture so seriously as the Communists, especially the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chairman Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in 1966 to 1976 — in which millions of Chinese perished — was waged in the name of “purifying and improving” Chinese civilization. Beginning […]
Backgrounder, Compiled by Bill Gertz The FBI has produced a brochure to help identify what it calls “insider threats,” spies who use their access to obtain secrets or company proprietary information. ‘A company can often detect or control when an outsider (non-employee) tries to access company data either physically or electronically, and can mitigate the […]
By Lev Navrozov China, which the communist Mao created as the “People’s Republic of China” (PRC) to turn the entire world communist, may defeat the United States as unexpectedly as Hitler defeated France. France was the world’s most culturally sophisticated and creative country. Yet it succumbed quickly to an attack by Hitler, a WWI soldier […]