Commentaries
Protecting and Dominating the Cyberspace Domain
Protecting and Dominating the Cyberspace Domain
Heritage Foundation
April 8, 2008
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Just about two hours ago, as luck would have it, I got a very timely telephone call from a very business-like young man at the Pentagon Computer Incident Response Team, known as PENT-CIRT.
China’s Military Modernization: Goals and Objectives?
June 18, 2008
China’s Military Modernization: Goals and Objectives?
John Tkacik
China is already an economic superpower. I don’t suppose anyone would disagree . . . all who disagree raise your hands. . . .
International Recognition of Taiwan's "Unsettled" Status
Taiwan's "Unsettled" International Status
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
National Taiwan Chengchi University
September 6, 2008
Technology Leadership, Economic Power and National Security: Dual Use Export Controls to China
Technology Leadership, Economic Power and National Security: Dual Use Export Controls to China
John Tkacik
February 20, 2008
“Since World War II, the United States has been the main driver of the global economy. Now we have a situation in which technology products are going to be appearing in the marketplace that were not developed or commercialized here. We won’t have had any involvement with them and may not even know they are coming.”
The China Delusion
by Thaddeus McCotter and John Tkacik
On Thursday, August 7, President George W. Bush spoke in Bangkok, Thailand about his vision for China's future. "Change in China will arrive on its own terms and in keeping with its own history and its own traditions," the president predicted. He pronounced, "Yet change will arrive."
Taiwan's Defense Hobbled by U.S. Arms "Freeze
The word is sweeping Washington -- or at least the Taiwan-watchers in Washington (including those in the Chinese embassy) -- that the Bush Administration is continuing its "freeze" of eight major defense packages necessary to Taiwan's security. President Bush's failure to submit congressional notifications for the multibillion-dollar Taiwanese arms tranche raises the prospect that he is washing his hands of Taiwan's security concerns.
Taiwan Arms Sales: Less Than Meets the Eye
After more than seven years of waiting, there is reason to celebrate the final approval of a $6.4 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan. Unfortunately, there is less to this package than meets the eye. Rather than addressing Taipei's deteriorating military balance against China's rapidly modernizing and expanding forces, these approvals provide gasps of new oxygen to Taiwan's aging defenses, which were starved of air initially by domestic politics and then, for the last year, by Washington's concern about Beijing's ire.
Georgia: Olympic Invasion: China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia's Aggression
Friday, August 8, was the holiest day in China's 2008 calendar. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush were in Beijing (along with 54 other heads of state and 15 prime ministers) to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Russia also invaded Georgia that day. China shrugged off the Russian desecration of the sacred date, but the invasion sent shudders through Russia's former Soviet republics.
Bush administration decision weakens Taiwan's position
by John Tkacik, Jr. , Gary Schmitt '
Not long after becoming president in 2001, George Bush said he would do "anything it takes to help Taiwan defend herself." But when he leaves office in January, he will have created a situation that seriously undermines that pledge.
The Bush administration had blocked nearly $16 billion in U.S. arms transfers to Taiwan.
Beijing's Olympic Message: China Will Do What It Wants
The blazing pageantry of the Beijing Olympics -- the most spectacular Olympian celebration in over 70 years -- is rightfully being heralded as the symbol of China' arrival as a global power. The bright Olympic spotlight showed the world a Chinese communist regime that is secure in its power, even if not in its legitimacy. While China cared deeply about the impression it made during its time in the international limelight (cared to the tune of $44 billion) such concern does not extend outside the Olympic venues.
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