Monday, February 5

Backchannel wars

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Two posts up on Saturday. Regarding the earlier post -- I hope you'll be sure to read both links that Dave Schuler at The Glittering Eye...
Saturday, February 3

Thomas Fingar and the scary new day in US intelligence work

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"Happily, the severity of specific threats to our nation, our values, our system of government, and our way of life are low and likely ...

A deafening silence on the US trade complaint against China

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Pundita returned late and walked into a storm of emergency projects, so I won't have today's post up until 6:00 PM. However, I note ...
Tuesday, January 30

The rise of the Purple Team and China's Ponzi scheme

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In the last post I quoted Bill Gertz's comments on the Red Team, to which the Red Team would surely snort, "Gertz is Blue Team....
Friday, January 26

The enemy within and a question about John Negroponte

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" Montaperto's conviction [for espionage] was a blow to the influential group of China affairs specialists in the U.S. government a...
Wednesday, January 24

Michael Wright chases away the Bogeymen

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Pundita: I've been having nightmares recently. Last night I had another one. Michael Wright: What was it? Pundita: I dreamed Robert Gate...
Tuesday, January 23

This one's for the idiots at the US Department of State

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I am having trouble with this post, on account of throwing things across the room every time I start writing, I am so upset with State. So w...
Monday, January 22

Weevils plot to gridlock foreign policy initiatives across the entire planet

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On the eve of the President's Address to the Nation, Pundita thought it would be a good idea to prepare her readers for what's ahead...
Saturday, January 20

Latin American governments air differences at Mercosur summit; Hugo Chavez dominates meeting

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Chavez ... promised to "decontaminate" South America's main trade bloc of its founding ideas: U.S.-supported free market polic...
Friday, January 19

Frankenstein at the United Nations: Confucius say you kowtow. And a few words about democracy's soft underbelly

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Pundita, dear, your crystal ball seems to be working well these days. You launched your China Frankenstein series less than two weeks before...
Thursday, January 18

The Great Capitalist Peace has come and gone

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Last week while I was working on the Capitalism vs Democracy essays, I received an email from a reader, Dr. Ernie, who mentioned the "g...
Wednesday, January 17

Capitalism vs democracy, Part 2: Help! Help! The ark is sinking!

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The system that has held democracy and capitalism together for the last century has started to unravel. In 1997, the same year that Fareed Z...
Tuesday, January 16

Capitalism vs Democracy, Part 1: What is a foreign policy, anyhow?

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It is fair to say that for almost a quarter century prior to September 12, 2001, the United States of America did not have a foreign policy;...
Monday, January 15

Great leaps in China's civil rights movement

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Today is Martin Luther King Day in America. I'm celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King by highlighting two stories on Chi...