Foreign Policy

China's extravagant claims over land and sea.

"With Maoism and Marxism a dead faith, the Communist Party is no longer able to invoke world revolution to justify its monopoly on power. Xi Jinping’s party needs to ground its claim to absolute and permanent power on some other animating force.
China is rooting its new claims in the old standbys — history, tribe, and nation — the natural recourse of rising powers."

Lovely.

Iran follows nuclear agreement, but warmongers want us to be scared anyway.

"Although the development does not appear to contravene the interim agreement struck between world powers and Iran last month, it may concern the West nonetheless, as the material can also provide the fissile core of a nuclear bomb if enriched to a high degree."

If. That would break the agreement and be detected by inspectors. This incessant warmongering, like a child forever touching another to provoke a response, over this non-issue has gone from stupid to absurd. I hope people are tired of it.

In response to China's aggression, US pressures Japan into passing sweeping secrecy laws.