By Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay and Sebastian Zukowski After a hiatus of seven years, the visit of the Polish head of the government to India took place in early September 2010.…
The Chinese Air Force has tested its strategic air power capability for air strikes and bombing against long-distance targets in the counter-terrorism exercise under the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) being…
Japan has few domestic energy resources and is only 16 percent energy self-sufficient. Japan is the third largest oil consumer in the world behind the United States and China and…
By Alexa Bankert Immigration is a delicate issue in every country. The expansion of a national community always requires the reformulation and revision of the societal consensus, which almost inevitably…
By Dean Cheng In recent weeks, a group of uninhabited rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea between Okinawa and Taiwan have become a serious source of tension between Beijing…
On August 5, I reported on the strong evidence that Iran had become the target of a state-sponsored cyber attack. At that point it was already understood that the Stuxnet…
By Ch. Viyyanna Sastry Even before the dust settled on the legality of China’s supply of two pressurized water reactors of 300 MWe capacity to Pakistan, reports are coming out…
Though the Stuxnet cyber-attack which likely targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities may’ve begun as early as 2009, computer security experts have only this month published their full analysis of one of…
Might Stuxnet have been the preemptive first strike in Israel’s campaign against Iran’s nuclear program? My post yesterday about Stuxnet noted cybersecurity experts who analyzed the massive computer worm which…
The Libyan economy is heavily dependent on the hydrocarbon industry which, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), accounted for over 95 percent of export earnings and an estimated 80…
By Walter A. McDougall In 1973, Congress passed the infamous War Powers Resolution (WPR), over Richard Nixon’s veto. It was perhaps the most ambitious Congressional effort to bridle the President…