Turkey and China Tie Themselves in Knots Over Syria and Xinjiang

Turkey and China Tie Themselves in Knots Over Syria and Xinjiang

Turkey’s ambassador to China, Emin Onen, didn’t mince his words this week when he took his Chinese hosts to task for failing to support Turkey’s military campaign against a Kurdish militia in Syria. Speaking in Turkish through a translator at a news conference at his Beijing embassy, Mr. Onen implicitly put China on the spot…

The Growing Legend of Unit 29155: Putin’s Goofball Supermen

The Growing Legend of Unit 29155: Putin’s Goofball Supermen

US Army Brig. General Peter Zwack (Ret.) thinks the Russians are “organically ruthless.” Michael Schwirtz of the New York Times agrees with the former military attache to Moscow. A Russophobic story by the reporter reads like the latest Jason Bourne spy thriller. Unfortunately, the Russian ruthlessness case falls to pieces under scrutiny. What you are…