Search results for: James Smith
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U.S.-North Korea Denuclearization Negotiations: An Irresolvable Issue?
...U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly was dispatched in October 2002 to Pyongyang where he confronted his North Korean interlocutors over American suspicions of a covert program. After Kelly’s...
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Are China and the U.S. Heading for Open Confrontation?
...to visit Hong Kong and, as reported, postponed joint military talks between US Secretary of Defence James Mattis and Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe. In the middle of this friction,...
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Mahathir: Uighurs “have done nothing wrong”
...out the Muslim faith.” Others, Marco Rubio and Chris Smith, are exploring the use of the Global Magnitsky Act to sanction those engaged in human rights abuses. That’s a good...
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A Road to Understanding in Syria?
...difference was that the YPG was, as America acknowledges, a subsidiary of the PKK. Even this proved tolerable to Ankara because, as former U.S. Ambassador to Ankara and Baghdad James...
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U.S.-ROK Military Exercises: Provocation or Possibility?
...Smith writes in his book, The Utility of Force, that one thing that unites all military forces in the world is that “they kill and destroy.” One could also argue...
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The Self-defense Capability of the DPRK and Peace on the Korean Peninsula
...Korea joint military exercises, started as “Focus Retina” in 1969, have been conducted under numerous different names. In February 2017, U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Mattis visited South Korea and...
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A Reflection on U.S. Grand Strategy: Trump and the Challenge for South Korean Diplomacy
...alliance with South Korea and Japan have been more positive. This has also been affirmed in official statements made by his staff, such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s recent...
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Understanding China’s Position on the South China Sea Disputes
...known as the James Shoal. [3] The Lowy Interpreter provides a good map showing the main sites of contention. See: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/issues/south-china-sea [4] These notes were deposited in response to Vietnamese...