Most space programs involve utilitarian satellites made for communications or earth observation.  These workhorse programs rarely attract notice.  Manned spac

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) looks set to become an increasingly prominent global arms seller thanks to its improving defense industry. Given the probl

Tensions between China and some Southeast Asian states over territorial claims in the South China Sea (SCS) appear to have eased with the agreement reached in B

The political development of Middle East and Central Asia (MECA) went through the whole 20th century. Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First W

The perennial problem in Sino-U.S. relations, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, has stolen newspaper headlines again.

On this 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember that 9/11 was not only an attack on the United States, it was an attack o

In fact, the real problem between the two countries, and their militaries, is not that they don’t know the other’s worries or concerns.

The annual release of the Pentagon’s Report on China’s military always engenders strong reactions, in Beijing, in U.S. policy circles and around the world. Notwithstanding the many audiences to which the Report addresses itself and the issues that many of those audiences have with various elements of the Report, it is the most authoritative U.S. government reference on the PLA, and by extension one of the most frequently cited open source analyses in the world

The political disorders sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, following last year’s civil strife in Kyrgyzstan, have intensified international concerns about Central Asia’s security at a time when the region has become an increasingly important transit route through which NATO supplies reach the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

Both China and the United States are playing an increasingly crucial role in Central Asia, where they have common and divergent interests, cooperation and competition. The common interests of China and US in Central Asia can mainly be identified in these areas