Posts Tagged ‘signaling’

Which voice came from the mouthpiece?

As long as China controls its information landscape, it will be responsible for being misunderstood
How seriously should you take vitriolic—or soothing—opinion that comes out of China over the internet? Ananth Krishnan warns against the tendency to assume every voice is that of a government mouthpiece.
News reports also claimed the write-up could not have been published [...]

Think tanks, spy fronts and websites

China’s ‘institutes for strategic studies’
The website that first published the provocative article had the domain name www.iiss.cn—when that site was up it redirected to chinaiiss.org. In addition there is chinaiiss.com and at least one other site with IISS in it. They do not have anything remotely to do with the London-based International Institute of Strategic [...]

Is a Zardari NFU policy a Pakistani NFU policy too?

That is now a very important question
Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, used a Q&A session at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit to announce that Pakistan “will not be the first country ever to use (nuclear weapons). I hope that things never come to a stage where we have to even think about using nuclear weapons”.
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