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Frontpage Interview's guest today is Gordon G. Chang, the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Amazon link). FP: Gordon G. Chang, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Chang: Thank you very much. FP: You believe that the Chinese Communist Party will fall from power by the end of this decade. We are talking about just a few years. What do you see here and why? And how is this compatible with the fact that China is getting more prosperous? What will replace the Party? Chang: As China gets more prosperous, it is becoming less stable. Senior Beijing officials now face the...

China issued Thursday the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005 (read full text) in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005 issued by the U.S. State Department on Wednesday. Released by the Information Office of China's State Council, the Chinese report listed a multitude of cases to show the serious violations of human rights both in and outside the United States. "As in previous years, the U.S. State Department pointed the finger at human rights situations in more than 190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the violations of human...

Jerusalem, March 6: Against the backdrop of the recent Indo-US nuclear deal, the Israeli defence industry has expressed concern that the United States' tightening security ties with India will adversely affect their prospects in one of their key markets. "The Americans understood Israel is taking a huge market away from them. It took them time to respond, but they eventually did," a source at Israel's defence industries told local daily 'Yediot Ahronoth'. "From now on it will be much harder to carry out arms deals in India," the source added. "The US plans on turning India into one of its...

ARABIAN SEA: American Ambassador David Mulford, industrialist Ratan Tata and Congress leader Satish Sharma, besides senior Indian Naval officers, were among the dignitaries today to visit the US aircraft carrier Nimitz, the star attraction at the ongoing Indo-US joint naval exercise 'Malabar-05'. "When you meet people from a different country and work with them, in this case Indians, it helps foster friendship and trust", Captain of USS Nimitz, Ted Branch told a group of journalists who visited the warship. Since the warships are used for humanitarian missions as well for combat, the interaction between Navies helps a meaningful partnership to...