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China's Quasi-Superpower Diplomacy: Prospects and Pitfalls
September 2, 2009 11:19 AM
The year 2009 will go down in history as a watershed for the epochal expansion of China’s global influence. With its economy tipped to grow at 8 percent despite the world financial crisis, the People’...
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Fusing Chinese Commercial and Military Aviation Industries
December 8, 2008
Violence and Rebellion in Iranian Balochistan
June 29, 2006
China’s Persian Gulf Strategy: Israel and a Nuclearizing Iran 2009
October 22, 2009
China's Quasi-Superpower Diplomacy: Prospects and Pitfalls
September 2, 2009
Tehran on the Brink of Procuring S-300 Missiles
October 22, 2009
The year 2008 will be remembered as a turning point in the history of China’s aviation industry from its slow to accelerated pace of restructuring. The restructuring process began in June 2007 with the separation of the...
The escalating insurgency in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan and neighboring regions receives extensive media coverage. Aside from the need to root out radical Islamist opposition movements tied to al-Qaeda and...
On September 15, a task force co-chaired by Senator Charles Robb (D-VA) and Senator Daniel Coats (R-IN) at the Bipartisan Policy Center released a report [1], calling on President Barack Obama to devise a tougher strategy to...
The year 2009 will go down in history as a watershed for the epochal expansion of China’s global influence. With its economy tipped to grow at 8 percent despite the world financial crisis, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is...
The Russian-Iranian deal on advanced S-300 long-range anti-aircraft missiles may go ahead despite U.S. and Israeli objections. This week the Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed government source confirming that the deal to...
Terrorism’s Trojan Horse: Vehicle-Borne Suicide Attacks Give Taliban Upper Hand in Pakistan
Suicide terrorism has taken a lethal turn in Pakistan recently with the widespread use of vehicle bombs, known to security services as Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED). These suicide VBIED attacks have targeted...
Is Iran Supporting the Insurgency in Afghanistan?
November 6, 2009
Violence and instability in Afghanistan continue to rage in the form of an organic insurgency shaped by local identities, networks, and interests. Operating under the nebulous rubric of the Taliban, the insurgents in...
Karzai Claims Mystery Helicopters Ferrying Taliban to North Afghanistan
November 6, 2009
While the Western press has been occupied recently with accounts of fraudulent elections in Afghanistan and the alleged role of President Hamid Karzai’s brother as a paid CIA agent, a stranger but perhaps more instructive story...
Interview with Amir of Jihad in Afghanistan’s Balkh Province
November 6, 2009
The recently released 41st issue of the Afghan Jihadi e-magazine al-Somod carried an interview with the Amir of Jihad of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan, Mullah Raz Mohammad bin Sayd al-Haydari. Al-Somod is published by...
Violence in Chechnya has Spiked Since Counter-Terrorist Operation’s End
November 6, 2009
November 3 marked the 200th day since the Russian government formally ended the “counter-terrorist” operation it launched in Chechnya in September 1999, and statistics collected by the Kavkazsky Uzel (Caucasian Knot) website show...
Attacks and Shootouts Reported in Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Dagestan and Chechnya
November 6, 2009
Violence has continued in the North Caucasus this week, with police, military personnel, suspected militants and civilians reportedly killed and wounded in attacks in Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Dagestan and Chechnya. Alexei...
Reports
Who's Who in the Somali Insurgency: A Reference Guide
September 30, 2009
The ongoing struggle for control of Somalia is one of the world’s most complicated. With the country already effectively split into three parts, it may be too late to speak of a Somali nation. While the popular conception of this...
China's Quasi-Superpower Diplomacy: Prospects and Pitfalls
September 2, 2009
The year 2009 will go down in history as a watershed for the epochal expansion of China’s global influence. With its economy tipped to grow at 8 percent despite the world financial crisis, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is...
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China in Africa
May 20, 2009 03:58 PMFeaturing Keynote Speaker Victor Gao
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The National Press Club, Grand Ball Room
529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
Media Appearances
Glen Howard Cited in The Associated Press
October 2, 2009Jamestown President Glen Howard is quoted in the article "After shooting outside Washington, victim questions why Russia angle discounted by police," Los Angeles Times, October 2, 2009.
Senior Fellow Willy Lam Cited in Express Buzz
October 1, 2009Jamestown Senior Fellow Willy Lam is quoted in the article "China is awake, the world is trembling," Express Buzz, October 1, 2009.
Press Releases
Jamestown Welcomes New Board Members
December 2, 2008General Carlton Fulford (Ret.), Bruce Hoffman, and Kathleen Troia McFarland Join Jamestown Foundation Board
Jamestown Releases a New Occasional Paper
October 26, 2007
“Russia’s Race for the Arctic and the New Geopolitics of the North Pole.”