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- 1From:Military Periscope Special ReportsOvershadowed by foreign threats, Maoist militants still pose danger Since its founding in 1947, India has faced a range of security challenges. While international attention has focused on India's conflicts with its...
- 2From:AEI Paper & StudiesForeword When news first broke that a mysterious illness was afflicting residents of Wuhan, China, it drew little attention in Washington. After all, China's first SARS epidemic barely touched the US, and the...
- 3From:AEI Paper & StudiesChair Bartholomew, Vice Chair Cleveland, and other distinguished Commission members, thank you for inviting me to testify before you today on the current state of U.S.-China relations. I want to take this opportunity to...
- 4From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * The US-China contest is a clash of systems as much as a clash of interests. China is challenging American influence and America's conception of what values an international order should embody. * China's...
- 5From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * There is a considerable chance China will stagnate by 2040, with gross domestic product growth at 1-1.5 percent. The process has started, seen most clearly in stark trends for debt and aging, but...
- 6From:Military Periscope Special ReportsMuch has been made of China's military modernization over the last decade. During this period, spending was buoyed by a booming economy. With indicators pointing to an economic slowdown, the benefits of the boom...
- 7From:Military Periscope Special Reports(1/30/2019) China's rise has raised concerns about its growing military capabilities, its economic strategies, including endeavors in Africa and the Belt and Road Initiative, and its cyber activities, such as...
- 8From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * Although changes in American and Chinese leadership have brought current tensions between the two nations to the fore, the underlying reasons for the tensions are not tied to either President Donald...
- 9From:Military Periscope Special ReportsThis week's gathering in Beijing for the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has drawn much more attention than most such events. Though the congresses happen but once every five years, recent ones...
- 10From:Military Periscope Special ReportsNorth Korea is again getting its craved attention. The recent saber-rattling has been taken up several notches from its extortionary and menacing activities over the years--to include explicit threats against the U.S....
- 11From:Military Periscope Special ReportsMilitary officials from more than two dozen nations were in attendance of the latest iteration of MILEX, the Belarusian national defense expo. Technically known as the International Exhibition of Arms and Military...
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World Biography (Vol. 34. 2nd ed.)The British historian and educator Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was a primary exponent of Marxist ideas in the writing of history in the 20th century. Until the collapse of Communism, he remained a member of Britain's...
- 13From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Russian statesman Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) was the creator of the Bolshevik party, the Soviet state, and the Third International. He was a successful revolutionary leader and an...
- 14From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals (see Marxism and...
- 15From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) authored one of the 20th century's great political novels, Darkness at Noon, as well as a number of other fictional works and essay collections which explained the ethos...
- 16From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsPrior to the January 16, 1991, launch of Operation Desert Storm to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush called on the Iraqi people to overthrow Saddam. That Administration decided...
- 17From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)Pronunciation: (trot-skee-iz-uhm) The doctrines of the twentieth-century Russian political leader Leon Trotsky, who believed that communism should depend on the cooperation of the proletariats of all nations rather...
- 18From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The German philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary leader Karl Marx (1818-1883) founded modern "scientific" socialism. His basic ideas--known as Marxism--form the foundation of socialist...
- 19From:Great Thinkers of the Western WorldBorn: 1818, Trier, a small German town in the Western Rhenish province of Prussia Died: 1883, London, England Major Works: The Communist Manifesto (with Engels: Manifest der Kommunisten, 1848), A Contribution to...