World Military Analysis
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End-of-war declaration for Korean Peninsula should be more than symbolic
Should the end-of-war declaration be signed by leaders of three parties or four? I believe, in terms of both international law and common sense, it should be the four parties – DPRK, China, the US and ROK – negotiating the termination of the Korean Armistice Agreement and jointly pushing for the signing of a new peace agreement on the Korean Peninsula.
2021-11-16 22:08 -
Prospect of India’s military reform remains dim
The Indian military has been quite busy recently, from commissioning the Rafale fighters to test-firing the Agni-V ballistic missile…, which Indian media described as the achievements of the country's latest military reform. However, the Indian military's reform toward streamlined, theater-based and information-based armed forces might still face a host of obstacles.
2021-11-15 18:29 -
US military's perverted notion of self-defense: China Daily editorial
The US Central Command on Sunday said that an airstrike that killed civilians in Syria was "legitimate self-defense".
2021-11-15 23:46 -
Japan's purchase of transport vessels ill-intended
Both the recent budget request by JGSDF and the various moves made by JSDF in recent years point to Japan's enthusiasm for developing amphibious combat forces. Its ill intentions behind such moves are likely to jeopardize regional security and stability, and are worth close attention and high alert from the international community.
2021-11-11 17:15 -
Biden following Trump's playbook on China
Since taking office, US President Joe Biden, though previously claiming he disagreed with his predecessor's approach to China, has actually stayed in lockstep with Donald Trump in this regard.
2021-11-12 23:27 -
Longest US war a nightmare for the Afghan people
According to the mid-year report released by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, civilian casualties have escalated and fighting intensified since May, when the US and its NATO allies officially began their military withdrawal. In the first half of 2021, the report says, nearly 1,659 people were killed and 3,540 wounded in the war in Afghanistan, an increase of 47 percent year-on-year.
2021-10-27 09:40 -
Europe should avoid being drawn into the U.S.' cold war on China
Instead of accepting this U.S. cold war agenda, Europe should cooperate with China and the rest of the world to tackle the real threats and problems facing humanity. Pursuing a new cold war against China is both a distraction and a serious obstacle to the genuine global cooperation urgently needed to end the pandemic, boost economic recovery and stop climate change.
2021-10-18 10:44 -
Japan attempts to shelve Constitution through military cooperation
Many signs indicate that Tokyo is trying hard to use the so-called "free and open Indo-Pacific" as an excuse to break through the limitations on it and play a bigger role in regional military and security affairs. Forming a quasi-military and security alliance with certain countries is an important way to achieve that goal.
2021-10-15 17:55 -
Carrier group cannot prop up Britain's strategic ambitions
Cementing the special relationship with the US is the strategy Britain has set for itself to realize its ambition to become a "global Britain" in the post-Brexit age. However, no matter what show the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier strike group will put on in the coming days, the country's position as a footman was determined even before the group set sail.
2021-10-14 18:09 -
Is the U.S. too far behind in bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan?
Right now it is fair to say that the Russians are doing something the Taliban wants (meetings next week) and the Chinese, along with other nations, are doing what the Afghan people need (providing emergency aid). Meanwhile, the Americans are doing two things detrimental to stabilizing Afghanistan (insisting on counter-terrorism efforts and holding onto $10 billion).
2021-10-13 22:58 -
India's arrogance will hurt itself
New Delhi aims to obtain greater geopolitical benefits and the policymakers believe that only by developing relations with the US and joining the "Indo-Pacific" camp can they have arm-wrestling with China. The Quad mechanism that has become more military-oriented has given India greater self-confidence, who has become increasingly arrogant.
2021-10-13 17:51 -
AUKUS seriously disrupts Asian-Pacific order
The US, UK and Australia recently signed an agreement to form an alliance named AUKUS, whereby the US and UK will help Australia build nuclear submarines. But other than this, which analysts described as the most eye-catching point of the alliance, tactical cooperation between the US and Australia will also exert great impacts on the military balance in the Asian-Pacific region.
2021-10-13 17:17 -
America's military biological activities must be addressed, now!
China and Russia issued a foreign ministers' Joint Statement on Strengthening the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) on October 7. The statement stressed China and Russia's firm resolve to defend the convention and expressed serious concerns about America's military biological activities.
2021-10-09 16:54 -
The U.S.' nuclear sub accident in the South China Sea is significant
The U.S. Navy revealed that one of its nuclear submarines recently collided with an unknown object while secretly traveling through the South China Sea (SCS). This accident is significant since it speaks to the regional dangers of the U.S.' saber-rattling in the region, in light of its newfound trilateral military alliance with Australia and the UK, (AUKUS).
2021-10-09 19:36 -
US should be held accountable for its crime in Afghanistan
As the world is going through profound changes never seen in a century, American politicians' obsession with force and their forceful export of American-style democracy are doomed to fail.Now the Afghan people are suffering in hell that was created by the US, but politicians in Washington are busy calculating their own gains and losses and racking their brains to shift the blame somewhere else.
2021-10-08 17:12 -
US double standard hinders anti-terror fight
Removing the notorious organization from its list of terrorist organizations may serve Washington's purpose of continuing to create trouble for Beijing. But by condoning acts of terror, the US may suffer greater losses in the long run.
2021-10-08 14:52 -
Japan's de facto aircraft carrier since WWII raises security concern in region
By having F-35B stealth fighter jets successfully flying from a modified helicopter destroyer in a recent test, Japan now in de facto has an aircraft carrier in its arsenal, the first since the country brought disaster to the world in World War II, was defeated and vowed not to have aggressive weapons.
2021-10-07 22:21 -
Why Iran launches military drill in NW borders?
Iran's Army Ground Forces (AGF) launched military maneuvers on Friday morning in northwestern areas bordering Azerbaijan and Armenia, state TV reported.
2021-10-02 23:12 -
Uncover truth about AUKUS
While the US has never been tired of paying lip services to ASEAN centrality, ASEAN centrality is nowhere to be found whenever America is determined to realize its self-interest anyway. The same is also true for the UK and Australia.
2021-09-30 15:43 -
Freedom of bearing arms dragging America into mire of tragedies
Over the last few days, the headline-grabbing mass shootings that occurred nearly back to back across the United States have once again cast doubt on the freedom of bearing arms, a controversial right that has been guarded by the U.S. constitution.
2021-09-30 15:39 -
How US evades responsibility for war crimes in Afghanistan
In the 20-year-long Afghanistan war, the US has committed horrible war crimes in the country. But Washington and the Pentagon usually refuse to acknowledge them, and try to cover up the truth. It also shields criminals and deals with them leniently. This is done even when the evidence of wrongdoing is staring them in the face.
2021-09-29 09:17 -
Japan's dignity lost while rooting for America's clique
The fact that the Prime Minister Suga insisted on going to the US at such a moment and participating in such a high-level and large-scale foreign event thoroughly reflects his eagerness to leave some personal political legacy before leaving office. Suga's American trip also displayed Japan's willingness to remain America’s strategic lackey.
2021-09-28 18:09 -
Rocky road ahead for Australia's nuclear submarine development
Australia is inexperienced in submarine development and hasn't fully grasped the technologies of conventional ones yet, so there is a big question mark over whether it can digest the complicated nuclear submarine technology even with America and Britain's help.
2021-09-27 16:15 -
Containing China not antidote to America's hegemonic anxiety
In recent years, the U.S. government has indulged in suppressing China, which ranges from illegal arrests of Chinese citizens and unwarranted oppression of Chinese enterprises to reckless interference in China's internal affairs and sinister attempts to form anti-China cliques.
2021-09-26 23:21 -
AUKUS nuclear submarine deal disputed
The US, the UK and Australia announced on September 15 to form a new military alliance called AUKUS, under which the US and the UK will provide Australia with nuclear submarine technology and help it form a nuclear submarine fleet as a demonstration of the alliance's early-stage cooperation. This means Canberra has unilaterally torn apart its USD 66billion (about RMB 438.9 billion) deal with France of 12 conventional submarines.
2021-09-24 17:12 -
Quad will only destabilize Asia-Pacific
That US President Joe Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad (Quadrilateral security dialogue among the US, Japan, Australia, and India) summit at the White House on Friday suggests the previous loose security partnership could soon become a formal organization.
2021-09-24 12:50 -
U.S. abuse of drones in "war on terror" exposes hegemonic excess
The U.S. general called the bloodshed "a tragic mistake," but obviously that was merely the latest in a slew of such mistakes the United States has made over the past 20 years in its so-called "war on terror," which features massive innocent civilian casualties caused by its drones.
2021-09-21 00:23 -
Australia-U.S.-UK deal meets backlash from Europe amid nuclear proliferation worries
Australia's decision to break off a multi-billion U.S. dollar submarine contract with France inked in 2016 and turn to the United States and Britain for nuclear-powered alternatives has sparked an outcry from the European continent.
2021-09-19 22:27 -
How anti-terror Washington turns itself into terrorist
The Pentagon on Friday admitted the 10 victims including seven children in the Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan were all innocent civilians, not what it claimed at first the Islamic State (IS) terrorists. It added fresh evidence that Washington itself is a terrible threat to regional security despite the slogan of "anti-terrorism."
2021-09-19 22:17 -
AUKUS to bring 'nuclear-powered submarine fever' across globe
US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison almost announced simultaneously on Wednesday that the three countries will form an enhanced trilateral security partnership called "AUKUS." This has been regarded as an effort of the US to build a new alliance against China.
2021-09-17 09:34 -
Being a staging post for US' strikes against Afghanistan is a bad choice for India
According to Indian media reports, the US is in touch with India about using it as a staging post for aerial strikes in Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations during a hearing on Monday.
2021-09-17 09:36 -
US is no longer exceptional, but it takes time to accept this fact
An admission of failure would, as Biden has found, not have gone down well with its people. America is a prisoner of a past that is in rapid retreat. No longer exceptional it is becoming a normal country. But it will take a very long time before it learns to accept that fact.
2021-09-10 09:03 -
Hype of 'new Quad' reflects India’s guilty conscience as an accomplice to threaten peace
India's concern about the new Quad actually reflects one fact: New Delhi itself is aware that the Quad will undermine the peace and stability in Asia. It has realized that its approach is not constructive, and thus, it is now scared of possible countermeasures in the future.
2021-09-07 09:35 -
US-Ukraine defense framework: a diplomatic show of Biden or a real milestone for Kiev?
During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to the US, the two countries' defense ministers signed the Strategic Defense Framework that "creates a foundation for the enhancement of US-Ukraine strategic defense and security cooperation," according to a White House statement on Wednesday. This is an important milestone for the US-Ukraine relationship, taking their security cooperation to the strategic partnership level.
2021-09-03 08:43 -
Japan's defense white paper for children instigates hatred
The Japanese government recently announced the creation of a white paper on defense for elementary and junior high school students, which continued its cliché of smearing and accusing China on its military development and the Diaoyu Island and South China Sea issues.
2021-09-02 17:41 -
Singing song of peace while wielding katana, what an irony
Japan has made frequent military moves recently, not only forming several new forces, increasing its defense budget by a large margin in the new fiscal year, but also stepping up the purchase and R&D of sophisticated weapons and equipment, in the undisguised endeavor to reinforce its combat forces and capabilities.
2021-08-28 10:22 -
An expeditionary force for EU? Easy to project, hard to realize
In a recent interview with French news agency AFP, the foreign policy chief of the EU Josep Borrell argued that what happens in Afghanistan now proves Europe the needs to develop a military capability independent of the US. He also promised to "propose to give the Union a 50,000-strong expeditionary force, capable of acting in circumstances like we're seeing in Afghanistan."
2021-08-27 13:03 -
'Afghan moment' a long-term heavy shadow over Western alliance system
As the leader of NATO allies in Afghanistan, the US military controlled the most important military and civilian resources. The US' chaos has made it difficult for allies to withdraw in an orderly manner as well. While mocking the US, many NATO allies have also criticized their own government.
2021-08-27 11:06 -
America is responsible for Afghanistan falling apart
The optics of Afghanistan's rapid collapse are powerful and reflect poorly on the U.S. itself. Far from still being seen as the unipolar hegemon than it was when it invaded two decades ago, the U.S. is now regarded as a rapidly declining, untrustworthy, corrupt and failed power.
2021-08-15 21:53 -
Chaos of the West's own making: A terrible legacy in Afghanistan
Undertaking any military action against another sovereign state is a grave and serious decision, one which should never be taken lightly. To begin with there is a moral question, one debated by philosophers for millennia. But even if we were to suppose that the moral case were overwhelming, morality alone would not be sufficient to justify Western actions.
2021-08-14 16:53