In 1986, the “supreme leader” of China founded Project 863 to develop super weapons in seven fields.

In his e-mail, a reader of mine asked me why I had emigrated to America since I am so critical of George W. Bush, who is, in my reader’s perception, an equivalent of America.

When we emigrated from Russia, U.S. President Nixon went to Russia to stop the Cold War. Possibly, we were permitted to emigrate as a Soviet present to him. You see? Owing to him, Russia was moving to the freedom of emigration after the decades when the expressed wish to emigrate was a crime.

In the 1990s, and even more so in the 2000s, it was clear that China and Russia were parties to a military agreement, though the reports on the subject in the free West were rather scanty and light.