Is there any end to Chinese ambitions in Asia? China wishes to dominate Asia with blockades, blockages, military diplomacy and political Machiavellism. Its plan to divert the River Brahmaputra from Tibet toward China’s northeast, blocking water to 100 million people in India, could lead to war.

Over the past 20 years, China's military investment has grown faster than any other country; the bamboo curtain that enveloped the country has become a copper curtain. The Chinese navy is enlarging its underground submarine facility and has started to deploy more submarines at the southern island of Hainan.

In the decades-old standoff between India and China over their 2,500-mile common boundary, it is no longer enough for India to guard its borders and stave off intermittent Chinese military intrusions. Indian government sources have accused China of waging cyber warfare by snooping into India's Web sites.

The process to disarm North Korea is about to enter a long-delayed final phase. A team of U.S. envoys will return to Seoul on Saturday, after a three-day trip to North Korea, with Pyongyang's declaration of its plutonium-based program, alleged uranium-enrichment program and cooperation with Syria.

Russia will deliver to China four battalions of 200-kilometer-range S-300PMU2 surface-to-air missiles this summer, the last batch in a series ordered by China. These missiles now cover the whole of the Chinese coast facing the Taiwan Strait.

China's production of J-11B fighters using Russian technology has become the latest bone of contention in the military cooperation between the two countries. The China-made fighter is a violation of a technology transfer agreement, Russian sources say.

The drive to disarm North Korea of its nuclear weapons could be endangered by conflicting U.S. moves. While a U.S. team has gone to North Korea to finalize the terms of Pyongyang's list of nuclear activities, in Washington video evidence of Pyongyang's nuclear cooperation with Syria is being revealed.

Amid skyrocketing oil prices and growing fears of global warming, Japan has decided to step up the promotion of nuclear power as a solution to both problems. The country's first nuclear reprocessing facility opens next month, enabling the recycling of nuclear waste by extracting uranium and plutonium.

China's stockpile of intermediate-range ballistic missile nuclear warheads should by no means be ignored. The People's Liberation Army's strategy of keeping a balance between its nuclear and conventional capabilities, or focusing on nuclear capability, as a matter of fact refers to these IRBMs and some short-range ballistic missiles.

Efforts to end North Korea's nuclear weapons drive are at a critical juncture, as top nuclear envoys from Pyongyang and Washington meet in Singapore this week for what may be make-or-break negotiations. Skepticism still lingers about significant progress, given the long history of mutual distrust.