“British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced the possibility of Chinese forces joining the multinational coalition in Afghanistan”

Interesting, if true.
China needs to step up. The US-China relationship will be one of the Big 5 Challenges for the US Foreign policy-wise for the next decade. 

Video – Free Tibet NYC Protest

Since Slashdot reports that the YouTube (owned by “Don’t Do Evil” Google) yanked the video, here is the video from Vimeo:
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/1494443]

Interesting Podcast on Chinese Hackers – “The Dark Visitor #1″…

…is here.
The blog is interesting too.

Book Notes: John Poole’s Dragon Days: Time for “Unconventional” Tactics

John Poole’s Dragon Days is mostly about 4GW and a little bit about what I call 5GW (aka SecretWar).
The Interesting points to me where:
- US light infantry should add criminal investigative techniques
- US light infantry should all add real SERE capability so they don’t need 2GW-ish bombardment (with its 4GW blowback) if they get into [...]

Getting China to Help in Afganistan

Hidden Unities makes a good case for the US interest in getting China involved in Afghanistan.
What is China’s interest here though? Why should they help?
A US that is bogged down with unreliable allies (aka NATO) is a US that is lesser impediment to other PRC goals.
How can China be nudged successively to join in? My [...]

123 Meme

I was tagged by Shane/Deichmans with the 123 Meme.
Here are the rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
I won’t tag anybody since I am about month behind on this, but here is my [...]

“Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is ‘gravely concerned’ by allegations that hackers…”

From Dark Reading:
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is ‘gravely concerned’ by allegations that hackers in his country have attacked German government systems, according to a report from the two countries’ diplomatic meeting earlier today.
I don’t think Germany should worry. The Chinese/PLA hackers were just practicing to for cyberway against somebody else.

“It’s better for the U.S. to shut up”

(via REDDIT) Yahoo News reports:
Sha Zukang, China’s ambassador to the
United Nations in Geneva, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that American concerns about his country’s growing military might were misguided.
“It’s better for the U.S. to shut up,” Sha said. “Keep quiet. It’s much, much better.”
Sha said the world need not worry about China’s growing economic and [...]

Future China: You Might Be a Superpower if…

The Futurist has an interesting post entitled: Why the US Will Still be the Only Superpower in 2030.
He states that it is unlikely that China will reach superpower status by 2030. The superpower status criterion listed are:

Have an economy near the size of the US economy.
Create original consumer brands that are household names everywhere in [...]

How to Engage China

I have a rather lengthy comment in a Phatic Communion post on China on some ideas on engaging China to nudge them toward a mutual beneficial future with the USA. Among other things, I said:
I think the US should insist upon China’s participation in peace-keeping/sysadmin type operations with the US / UK / Aussies / [...]

Coming Anarcy’s Neo-Medievalism, Ungoverned Spaces, PNM Theory, and Network Science

Coming Anarchy has an interesting PNM Theory related post entitled Neo-Medievalism II that used historical examples and the idea of ungoverned spaces:
The nexus thereof, ungoverned space, creates a network of internationally connected fiefdoms which engage in smuggling, trafficking, terrorism and other forms of organized crime. The Coming Anarchy meets Global Guerillas.
I think the idea of [...]

On “Unrestricted Warfare” and the Generations of War Framework

The book Unrestricted Warfare (or Total Warfare in some translations) written by PLA Colonles Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui covers a wide range of possible conflict methods. It is available at Amazon.com or free on the internet via as a PDF. I read the book in early 2004.
I started writing about this earlier in [...]

Hacker Botnets and 4GW

Via DIGG
Report claims Chinese military operating hacker botnets
It is feared that the thousands of botnets controlled by gangs in China, may be a "military reserve" for the Chinese Cyber War organization. A lot of the online gang activity seems to come out of China, and the Chinese government has relationships with hacker groups, and [...]