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News that China's National People's Congress Standing Committee has placed an "anti-secession law" on the agenda for next March's NPC session raises the question, "Don't China's lawmakers have anything better to do?" ....
Samuel Johnson's aphorism, "The prospect of being hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully," finally seems to be taking hold in Taiwan's military establishment. ....
After initially expressing "concern" over North Korea's July 4thmissile launches, China's unwillingness to work towards serioussanctions on North Korea provides further proof that Beijing haslittle interest in restraining Pyongyang. What are we to make ofthe disconnect between Chinese rhetoric and action? In many ways,it reflects a disconnect between the Chinese People's LiberationArmy (PLA)-which almost certainly does not share any real concernsabout North Korea's missile provocations-and Chinese diplomats, whohave largely been kept out of the loop. ....
British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be making a strategic error if he decided to support the French proposal to lift the European Union's arms ban on China. Reports that he's on the verge of doing so is already creating tensions between the United States and Great Britain at a time when the two nations must jointly lead the war on terrorism and prepare Iraq for the June 30 transfer of power. ....
The unexpected defeat of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party in legislative elections Saturday will no doubt abate worries in Washington that Taiwan's infant democracy had been getting a bit ahead of itself. ....