China’s Sudanese dilemma: Secure oil whatever the cost
News broke in late March that South Sudan ordered its oil companies to start production again. The fledgling Sub-Saharan nation stopped oil exports in January 2012 amid failed negotiations with Sudan over oil transmission prices. Not that this is anything new. The two Sudans reached an agreement last September but it was never implemented due to disagreement over border security issues.
By Tim Daiss | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 3:10 pm
Selling Secrets to the Mainland: Military Espionage in Taiwan (part 2)
The question of why so many Taiwanese military officers would betray their country is a complicated one, as complicated as the six-decade plus relationship between China and Taiwan itself.
By Tim Daiss | Notebook | Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 4:00 am
Selling secrets to the mainland: Military espionage in Taiwan (part 1)
Cross-Taiwan Strait relations between China and Taiwan have thawed in recent years. China, who until the late 1970s was firing artillery shells toward the island nation, has supposedly taken a softer approach to what it considers a renegade or breakaway Chinese province.
By Tim Daiss | Notebook | Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 3:29 pm
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