[Chinese Version] This is the first part of a two part Special Report from Professor Yang Wen…
[Chinese Version] This is the first part of a two part Special Report from Professor Yang Wen…
In this case, even the publication of the sanctions list itself is something of an intelligence find for the United States — as Perlez notes:
“The list gives a good insight into what China knows about the missile and bomb development of North Korea,” said [Roger] Cavazos, the former Army intelligence officer who now works as an analyst at the Nautilus Institute, which studies international security issues. “From what I can tell, it lays out almost all China knows about North Korea’s missile and nuclear program.”
Roger Cavazos, a former United States Army intelligence officer who specialized in China’s military, said an initial reading of the long list of banned items suggested that China was targeting important aspects of North Korean nuclear programs, including the ceramics needed to protect a warhead as it re-entered the earth’s atmosphere atop a missile.
[IN CHINESE] This is a translatable version of the recently released 236 page list of items C…
This Special Report takes an incisive look into Technical Bulletin #59 on Prohibition of Dual Use Exports …
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Mark Valencia writes, “There is now little doubt that China and the West are going to clash. They are already competing in both military and civilian areas and more fundamentally in values and the pursuit of political power. The as yet unanswered questions are will the conflicts become “physical” and, if so, how and why?”
Mark Valencia is Senior Visiting Scholar at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies in Haikou, China and a Nautilus Institute Associate.
Heonik Kwon writes: China and North Korea have varying and even contradictory interests in the history of thei…
Roger Cavazos: Any visit Kim Jong-un will make to China will have a broader bi-lateral component and a lesser …