C2, China hasn't said they haven't supplied North Korea with any nuclear know-how. It's hard to imagine North Korea just invented all the nuclear and rocket propulsion stuff all by themselves while supposedly undergoing mass starvation and pathetic backwardness.
Russia/China/Pakistan/Libya/Egypt/Syria/Iran/ etc all in cahoots, sort of, with Russia watching their backs as Chechnya is the tail end of that loop with Islamic terrorist inclinations which would be horrendous if they included nuclear weaponry supplied via the loop back into Moscow.
The Year of the Feather Duster [aka Year of the Rooster] manoeuvres have been long planned, though last I read, they were temporarily postponed to a bit later in 2005. Russia would participate in the manoeuvres with China conducting the actual landings "on China's territory" which would be some disputed islands close to the coast of China I suppose, which would leave Taiwan and the USA with the dilemma of whether it is worth responding and raising the ante to recover possession of some relatively trivial islands.
Tough call! But give them an inch and they'll take over. Czechoslovakia was worth sacrificing to Adolf for "Peace in our time".
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Megalomaniacs are like that. They should be disciplined when they are one year old, taught to play nice and exchange value, get a job, interact on a voluntary basis in a realm of private property rights, and not simply exert power over others to acquire goods, services and kingdom.
Unfortunately, a large proportion of humanity is allowed to run amok and develop the idea that taking by dominance, force and fear is an excellent way to get things.
People bleat on about Hitler, have remembrances, chant "Never forget", and repeat endlessly the refrain "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat this cliche". They think Hitler was the problem. He wasn't. He was just a manifestation of the dominant German ethos of the time that might makes right and taking is as good as working. That ethos is endemic, more common than AIDS, sars and avian flu combined, including in the USA as much as anywhere.
It's built right into the USA constitution which allows voters to confiscate the property of others by way of taxes for spending on "public goods and services" which just happen to include projects involving cash flows in the right directions, aka pork barrels, redistribution, equality, blah blah blah.
You can be sure that all the remembrances are for naught and those who have failed to learn from history will repeat their cliches yet again. A good definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over, expecting to get a different result.
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