China, Nuclear Security and Terrorism: Implications for the United States

This article outlines Chinese strategic nuclear forces and the Chinese philosophical approach to nuclear security. It then focuses on the domestic conditions in China which could precipitate vulnerabilities to its nuclear forces. From information about internal security conditions in China, specific internal threats to Chinese nuclear security will be derived. Based on these threats, several outsider and insider scenarios will be outlined involving a variety of terrorist or terrorist related behaviors. These notional scenarios will include everything from overrun or attack, to diversion, to cyber terrorism, to sabotage. The article will then cover what these scenarios and the possible Chinese reaction to them may mean for the security, military and diplomatic strategies of the United States.     

Reassessing U.S. Strategy in the Aftermath of the Korean War

This article examines the reassessment of U.S. strategy that Dwight D. Eisenhower directed after replacing Harry S. Truman in the White House in January 1953, as he worked to bring the Korean War to an end and then confronted the problems remaining in its aftermath. Despite much of the rhetoric of the early Eisenhower administration, the outcome of that reassessment fit more closely the objective of containment than key strategic formulations of its predecessor. Why was this so? How did the orientation apply to ending the war in Korea and sustaining the U.S. position there and elsewhere after the armistice? What insights, if any, do the process of reassessment and its outcome provide for the present? Answers to these questions serve to emphasize the dynamic and contingent nature of American strategy in the early Cold War and the importance of flexible, engaged leadership in the White House.     

Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency

Following its encounter with insurgent violence in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has sought to improve the U.S. military's ability to conduct counterinsurgency. This effort suggests a potential turning-point in the history of the U.S. military, which has traditionally devoted its attention and resources to “high-intensity” or “conventional” combat. Given this institutional culture, what are now the prospects of the U.S. military ‘learning counterinsurgency’? In many ways, the ongoing reorientation is promising and targeted, informed directly by the U.S. campaign in Iraq. At the same time, Pentagon priorities still reveal a remarkable resistance to change, and this in spite of the radically altered strategic environment of the War on Terror. Given this intransigence - and the eventual fall-out from the troubled Iraq campaign - the ongoing learning of counterinsurgency might very well fail to produce the type of deep-rooted change needed to truly transform the U.S. military.     

黑龙江省东部煤电化基地发展产业集群模式探索

构建东部煤电化基地,是继哈大齐工业走廊启动建设后,黑龙江省委、省政府审时度势做出的一项重大战略部署;是深入贯彻落实科学发展观、坚持走新型工业化道路、加快老工业基地振兴、推进全面小康社会建设的重大战略决策;是顺应经济全球化和区域经济一体化趋势,统筹区域经济协调发展的一项重大举措;对培育新的经济增长点,提升区域经济竞争力,增强可持续发展能力,具有十分重大而深远的意义。产业集群强调按照科学发展观和经济规律的要求来优选产业项目,不仅实现资源合理配置,而且通过产业项目的选择,优化产业配置,追求经济、生态和社会效益相统一的综合效益。不仅包括企业利润的最大化和区域GDP的增长,而且必须包括区域生态安全、资源优化与永续利用、人居生活环境美化等目标。     

对环境保护中政府失灵的哲学反思

在环境问题上,我国政府先后投入了巨大的人力、物力和财力,出台了大量的环保政策、法律和规章,但环境状况目前仍然严峻.当前人们的价值取向及对人与自然关系的错误解读,使环境保护中出现政府失灵这一现象成为必然.政府在环境保护中应做到:政府决策者需要树立科学的自然观;加强对国民尤其是青少年的生态教育;积极参与国际环保交流与合作.     

History, War, and the Future

This article aims to delineate several issues raised by an historically based approach to understanding the present and the future. Beginning with a discussion of the profound impact that drastic changes have had on the international environment, the article then outlines what history suggests about human nature's influence on the course of future events; the future of war; the nature of governance and the United States. This essay does not attempt to provide answers, but rather suggests how policy makers, strategists, and military leaders might think through the complex political and cultural questions they need to be asking in the making of strategy. This is the essential first step for Americans. If they fail to ask the right questions, most answers will prove irrelevant to the challenges of the future.     

Delegation of American Foreign Policy Council Visits China

At the invitation of Chinese Association for International Understanding （CAFIU）, a 6-member delegation of American Foreign Policy Council headed by Mr. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited China from June 4 to 11.