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...That could be a huge problem for the U.S. if the simmering conflict over Taiwan ever boils over. "The Chinese understand how dependent the Americans are on these spy satellites," says John Pike, a satellite expert with GlobalSecurity.org. "And they understand how easy it is to shoot them down." A strike against intelligence-gathering satellites, he theorizes, would likely be China's first move in any military action against Taiwan. "If the Chinese are to have any hope of grabbing Taiwan while nobody is looking, they have to win quickly," Pike says. "They have to present the Americans with...
...think there has been a lot of wishful thinking in the region. There was a tendency to think that North Korea was not a nuclear weapons state," says John Pike, a weapons expert with Global Security.org. "It's sort of a blowback from Iraq. People have overcompensated on Iraq, and so now the standard of proof is, I'm not going to assess anybody as having something that has not been demonstrated unambiguously." Now that there is no such ambiguity, it should make it easier to bring China and South Korea into alignment with the U.S. and Japan and coordinate...
...borders than about the murky state of the North's weapons programs. "The challenge for the administration is, can they get China to do enough?" asks Green. "The Chinese don?t want to go so far they create a whole another nightmare for themselves with North Korea falling apart." Pike thinks China won't take the risk. "That's why we're not going to get anything beyond words out of the Security Council," he says...
...naval blockade of North Korea since that would only create more divisions between the U.S. and its partners. "If the U.S. started doing anything that looked like it ran the risk of military confrontation the current government of South Korea would drop-kick us out of the country," Pike points...
...Besides being pulled over on the Mass Pike a few times, that was about the extent of my interaction with the troopers,” the charming and cordial actor says. “You remember that movie ‘The Hard Way,’ with Michael J. Fox? I was kind of like Fox, like ‘Hey guys, can I get a gun?’ And they were like, ‘Shut up, no.’ They didn’t give me a gun, luckily...