- DETERRENCE: Crews to start unprecedented 3-carrier swap this summer
- DPRK: US envoy on North Korea Sydney Seiler says Iran deal proves flexibility
- GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Students protest in Taiwan over ‘China-centric’ education
- CLIMATE CHANGE AND AND SECURITY: Beijing is finally getting serious about climate change
DETERRENCE: Crews to start unprecedented 3-carrier swap this summer, Lance Bacon, Navy Times (12 July 2015)
The US Navy is swapping out 3 aircraft crews across carriers, countries, and homeports. Aircraft carriers are “high reliability operations” in which tacit knowledge and on-job learning a critical. This living operations manual is difficult to transmit. The 3 hull swap will keep six carriers in the Pacific and maybe fill a gap in the Middle East in late 2015.
- Navy likely to fill “carrier gap;” readiness will suffer, Sydney Freeberg, Breaking Defense (7 July 2015)
- The self-designing high-reliability organization: aircraft carrier flight operations at sea, Gene Rochlin, Todd La Porte, Karlene Roberts, Naval War College Review (Autumn 1987)
DPRK: US envoy on North Korea Sydney Seiler says Iran deal proves flexibility, Economic Times (India) (27 July 2015)
North Korea’s slight warming to China and South Korea should be seen as attempts to solidify domestic conditions and dampen North Korea domestic situation by dampening external shocks. North Korea doesn’t want China to pressure it to accept anything like an Iran deal. Engaging South Korea on reforestation helps North Korea’s environment and removes some urgency as ROK President Park’s term winds down. However, both North and South Korea attempt to strike asymmetrically at each other in the cyber realm.
- Chinese president visits Shenyang near N. Korea, Korea Herald (28 July 2015)
- Delegation of forestry experts to visit North Korea to assess problem of trees around Mt. Keumgang, Kim Ji-hoon, Hankyoreh (29 July 2015)
- Korea contacts Italian firm for hacking software: S. Korean lawmaker, North Korea Tech (30 July 2015)
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Students protest in Taiwan over ‘China-centric’ education, AFP (22 July 2015)
Students in Taiwan protested proposed changes in school textbooks that they feel are ‘China-centric’ both outside and inside the Education Ministry, resulting in the arrest of thirty students. Public frustration with China and agreements between Beijing and Taiwan’s current governing party has grown, with increasing numbers supporting independence and identifying less as Chinese and more as Taiwanese.
- Thirty students arrested in Taipei for protesting China-centric education, Asia News (24 July 2015)
- Taiwan’s modernity and the 2016 elections, Kerry Brown, The Diplomat (27 July 2015)
- China’s Taiwan denial, Josh Chin, Wall Street Journal (18 July 2015)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: Beijing is finally getting serious about climate change, Barbara Finamore et al, China File, Foreign Policy blog (11 July 2015)
There is a disjuncture between increasing and productive China-US climate change cooperation and the reciprocal enemy images of their security establishments. China may be ‘trying to hack into everything that doesn’t move’, but we know, post-Snowden, China is not alone in that. Moreover the level of Chinese industrial cross-border collaboration, including in its solar power industries, ‘challenges the idea that climate remediation is necessarily impeded by a structurally-determined, geopolitically-driven “tragedy of the commons.”’
- U.S.-China strategic & economic dialogue outcomes of the strategic track, Media Note, Office of the Spokesperson, State Department, Washington, DC (24 June 2015)
- Teams of rivals: China, the U.S., and the race to develop technologies for a sustainable energy future, Edward Steinfeld, Watson Institute for International Studies, Research Paper No. 2015-26 (20 April 2015)
- China – climate hero or the culprit? Joe Curtin, China Dialogue (25 July 2015)
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