East Asia

With all about the chatter about China’s hacking of Google and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s drive to deliver “consequences” to bad actors in cyberspace, it’s worth noting that the problem of cyber attacks either promulgated or supported by the Chinese government is far from new.

In a previous life, your Cable guy broke a story that revealed senior military officials believe the Chinese government is supporting hackers that attack “anything and everything” in the U.S. national security infrastructure on a constant basis. And while it’s difficult to prove guilt, the scale, organization, and intent of the attacks leads experts and officials alike to one sponsor: the Chinese government.

With Obama envoy Stephen Bosworth, above, finally visiting Pyongyang and a lot of nam

The Chinese leader, Hu Jintao, was captured in the international headlines this week as a politician of a growing international stature.

“It was Dr. Abdullah’s right to choose to withdraw from the runoff election. My future actions will all be guided by the Afghan Constitution and I will accept the decision made by the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan.” (Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai on his rival’s decision to withdraw from presidential elections.)

Middle East Times, October 5, 2009

The historic landslide victory of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) last August has
raised the question whether the new government under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama
will revise Tokyo’s counterterrorism policies followed by the former administration led

Adopted in 2005 at the United Nations’ World Summit, the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) represents a remarkable evolutionary step for the international state system. R2P, which was pushed by then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, seeks to ensure that another Rwanda (or Cambodia or Holocaust) will never happen again.

Abstract:
The remarkable economic growth in the last couple of decades has brought dramatic transformations to China. In the wake of these changes, China is confronted with unprecedented and complex challenges in both domestic and foreign policy issues.