Great Expectations: Washington, Beijing, and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Abstract Throughout the North Korean nuclear crisis, the Bush administration has believed that China is the most crucial player in the effort to find a solution. Washington has frequently expressed disappointment that Beijing is not willing to put more pressure on its misbehaving client. China faces a dilemma, however. Although most evidence indicates that Chinese leaders are not happy about Pyongyang's quest for nuclear weapons, keeping the Korean peninsula nonnuclear is not China's highest priority. Beijing is even more concerned about preserving North Korea as a geographic buffer between the U.S. sphere of influence in Northeast Asia and the Chinese homeland. China does have substantial economic leverage over North Korea, since it supplies a major portion of the country's food and energy supplies. The PRC is cautious, however, about using that leverage to coerce Pyongyang regarding the nuclear issue. Chinese leaders fear that putting too much pressure on Kim Jong Il's regime could cause the North Korea...
North Korea’s Resurgence and China’s Rise: Implications for the Future of Northeast Asian Security
Today, Northeast Asia’s security situation is changing rapidly. North Korea is reviving and China’s power is growing at an alarming rate. While the U.S. continues to suffer diplomatically and militarily in the Middle East and from international terrorism, China’s and North Korea’s power is likely to futher increase, polarizing the Northeast Asian security structure, with South Korea, Japan (and Taiwan) all allied with the U.S. versus North Korea allied with China. The liberal democracies should pursue peace with North Korea and China to preclude the situation from aggravating, but should be ready in the longer term to meet, in diverse ways including strengthening their alliances, the challenges posed by rising powers.
List of the described Coleoptera ofTasmania.
The Coleoptera of Tasmania have never been considered as 
a whole since the time of Erichson, and no list or 
catalogue of the species has ever been compiled. About 
10,000 species have now been recorded from Australia and 
Tasmania, of which scarcely 400 have been described from 
Tasmania. A very imperfect knowledge of what species 
are confined to the island exists, as species supposed only 
to occur there, are constantly being found in Victoria and 
New South Wales, and even sometimes in Western Australia 
and Queensland; on the other hand, Tasmanian 
collectors frequently obtain mainland species which have 
never been recorded from Tasmania. 
I have considered it advisable, therefore, to prepare a 
list of the species hitherto recorded from Tasmania, adding 
to the list such species as I have seen in Tasmanian collections, 
or have myself taken in Tasmania. In this list, 
the genera and families are placed as far as possible in the 
order in which they appear in Masters' "Catalogue of the 
Described Coleoptera of Australia;" the species are placed 
alphabetically. All known synonyms have been omitted.