The tag 'China' is associated with 52 posts.

FTR #627 Going Native, Part IV

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded March 9, 2008 MP3: 30-Minute Seg­ment REALAUDIO NB: This RealAu­dio stream con­tains both FTR #627 and FTR #628 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast. The broad­cast ana­lyzes Ger­man deep for­eign pol­icy in the Balkans—the seces­sion­ist move­ment in Kosovo in par­tic­u­lar. Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance is the pol­icy of pro­mot­ing “volks­grup­pen­rechte,” or the rights [...]


China reveals Iran’s nuclear secrets to UN

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ April 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Damien McEl­roy THE TELEGRAPH China has betrayed one its clos­est allies by pro­vid­ing the United Nations with intel­li­gence on Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear tech­nol­ogy, diplo­mats have revealed. Con­cern over Tehran’s secre­tive research pro­gramme has increased in recent weeks after offi­cials at the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watch­dog, dis­cov­ered that [...]


The Olympic Lever

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ March 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

GermanForeignPolicy.com BERLIN/BEIJING (own report) – Berlin is using the upheaval in the west­ern region of the People’s Repub­lic of China to pur­sue its cam­paign of attri­tion against Bei­jing. Ger­man Chan­cel­lor Angela Merkel is demand­ing that the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment enter a “dia­log” with the Dalai Lama, the most famous leader of the Tibetan seces­sion­ists. Roland Koch, [...]


Insight: Western banks face SWF backlash

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ February 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Gillian Tet­t­FI­NAN­CIAL TIMES Pub­lished: Feb­ru­ary 7 2008 19:21 | Last updated: Feb­ru­ary 7 2008 19:21 Ear­lier this week, I chat­ted with a jet-lagged senior US financier. Like many of his ilk, he is flit­ting around the Mid­dle East and Asia try­ing to extract finance from sov­er­eign wealth funds and other invest­ment groups. His lat­est travels [...]


FTR #616 Going Native, Part 3: Homeland Insecurity

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Octo­ber 28, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists [...]


Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ November 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Iran, Rus­sia and Venezuela Feel the Ben­e­fits By Steven Muf­sonWASHINGTON POST High oil prices are fuel­ing one of the biggest trans­fers of wealth in his­tory. Oil con­sumers are pay­ing $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pump­ing more than $2 tril­lion into the coffers [...]


FTR #615 Going Native, Part 2 German Foreign Policy and Its Implications

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Octo­ber 21, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists [...]


FTR #613 The Socialism of Fools, Part 2: American Dreyfus

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 16, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Octo­ber 7, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Intro­duc­tion: Sup­ple­ment­ing FTR#567, this pro­gram high­lights the resur­gence of anti-Semitism in the United States and else­where. [The title of the pro­gram refers to a char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of anti-Semitism by a 20th cen­tury social critic as “the social­ism of fools.”] Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance in the program [...]


FTR #611 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters — Caution: Networks at Work

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 2, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Explor­ing the eco­nomic and polit­i­cal net­works that both pre­cip­i­tated and exe­cuted the 9/11 attacks, this pro­gram high­lights the links between Islamist ele­ments involved at the oper­a­tional level and indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions that dom­i­nate the global geo-political land­scape. These networks—belonging to elite indus­trial, finan­cial and [...]


FTR #602 The Plot to Seize the White House: Interview with Jules Archer

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Lib­erty League, indus­tri­al­ists, financiers orches­trated the 1934 coup plot; Gen­eral Smed­ley But­ler betrayed the plot; media sup­pressed accu­rate reportage.


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