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ASPI suggests
Posted By Natalie Sambhi on March 14, 2014 @ 14:51
China possesses about 200 nuclear weapons and is cagey about nuclear transparency. There are valid reasons to criticise Japan's stockpile of plutonium, but China’s exaggerations in this regard undermine its own arguments for pursuing plutonium reprocessing.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_34593.jpg
[2] accused the CIA of hacking into: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/dianne-feinstein-cia-may-have-violated-constitution-2014-3
[3] here: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=db84e844-01bb-4eb6-b318-31486374a895
[4] here: http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4486741/dianne-feinstein-cia-separation-powers
[5] John Brennan has defended his organisation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/transcript-cia-director-john-brennan-says-his-agency-has-done-nothing-wrong/2014/03/11/21d1dde8-a944-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html
[6] Jon Stewart has weighed into the controversy: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jon-stewart-dianne-feinstein-cia-scandal-daily-show-spying-nsa-2014-3
[7] China’s hypocrisy in objecting to Japan’s stockpile of plutonium: https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2014-d2de/march-1ef8/japan-plutonium-f0f8
[8] a joint study on security relations between Australia and Japan: http://www.nids.go.jp/english/publication/joint_research/series10/series10.html
[9] Indonesian officials (finally) acknowledge that China’s maritime claims include Indonesia’s Natuna Islands: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/indonesia-military-flexes-muscle-s-china-sea-dispute-looms/
[10] General Moeldoko travelled to China to meet with his counterpart : http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/02/26/tni-eyes-closer-cooperation-with-china.html
[11] new accounting rules for hull numbers: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140311/DEFREG02/303110036/New-US-Navy-Counting-Rules-Add-Up-More-Ships
[12] apparently inevitable trend: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/graphs-of-the-week-expensive-ships-or-a-big-fleet-you-may-only-pick-one/
[13] According to The Intercept: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/07/nsa-advice-columnist-seriously/
[14] United States Senator for California: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/bestof2011gallery