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War and Peace in Afghanistan
The United States military withdrawal from Afghanistan is not an attempt to end the war but rather to maintain control of Afghanistan through a new strategy to keep China, Russia and Iran in check and to hinder Eurasian integration.
2021-08-11 09:36
The scorched circus of War on Terror wasn't worthwhile
With the Afghan government losing ground to the Taliban and provincial capitals starting to be contested, the former head of the U.S. army in Afghanistan says it would be "impossible to argue" that the War on Terror had been worthwhile.
2021-08-10 17:32
A warmongering country won't help create prosperity, security and values in Southeast Asia
From both the historical lens and the broader perspective of modern international relations, Southeast Asia has always been one of the key strategic fulcrums of advancing American national interest in the region. Now, the Biden administration is prioritizing strengthening America's ties with its Asian allies, a clear push at checking China.
2021-08-09 15:56
For US elites, Asian civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage
The US has publicly expressed concern that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is modernizing its defensive strategic weapons capabilities. All the while, it is known in the public domain that Washington is always ready with an immeasurably more powerful arsenal of nuclear weapons.
2021-08-08 21:58
The Iraq quagmire should teach the U.S. a lesson
Washington seeks to end its mission in Iraq and, in the future, focus entirely on training and advising Iraqi security forces. The announcement also marks the end of an epochal geopolitical quagmire. While the chapter may be over for the West, Iraq will continue to deal with the fallout of the 2003 invasion.
2021-08-07 21:47
Challenges confront Iran's new president
Iran's new President Ebrahim Raisi took office on Thursday for a four-year period after his electoral victory in June, but confronts a challenging domestic and international scene.
2021-08-06 18:56
A look at Iran's foreign policy in new president's meetings ahead of inauguration ceremony
Iran's newly-elected President Ebrahim Raisi takes the oath before parliament on Thursday, with the new government's domestic and international agendas under spotlight.
2021-08-05 20:14
Why did US senior officials swarm to Asia?
Deep at heart, Washington doesn't want to see China develop and even surpass it, but at the same time, it is fully aware that China has become such a vital force in international affairs that many things cannot be accomplished without its participation. Therefore, "building a constructive and stable relationship" is just a ploy to promote America's own global strategy.
2021-08-02 17:29
American military's "integrated deterrence" hard to achieve expected effects
The US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin proposed the "integrated deterrence" strategy at the recent Global Emerging Technology Summit, claiming that the US needs massive innovation and investment in emerging technologies to maintain its technological superiority and cope with the so-called "major-country competition".
2021-08-02 16:40
US defeated by lies, again, in Afghan war
Lies, ego, hubris and self-deception: Experts are counting up the reasons for failure in the United States' two-decade war in Afghanistan. Calling it ill-fated from the beginning, they say the episode is comparable to the country's experience in Vietnam.
2021-08-01 17:05
UK's new South China Sea policy reeks of stale colonialism
In fact, the latest voyage of British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth is not simply what London calls a crossing of South China Sea waters in accordance with international law, but is a carefully planned trick serving multiple purposes.
2021-07-29 10:08
"America first" is greatest harm to multilateralism
In the face of the increasing tension arising from the pandemic, instead of committing themselves to fight the pandemic in the US, some US politicians continue to play the old tricks of stigmatizing China over pandemic, labeling the virus with certain regions in China, and politicizing the COVID-19 origin-tracing.
2021-07-27 17:27
Lessons From Afghanistan
For the past two decades, the United States has been engaged in a “war against terrorism” in Afghanistan, starting in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now it's leaving hastily and recklessly under the pretext of “great power competition.” Two decades on, the episode begs the question: Has America's strategic goal in Afghanistan been achieved? What are the lessons?
2021-07-27 15:10
US’s long overdrawn, ruined strategic credibility
No matter how spectacular its vision might be, the US is perpetually committed to the “America first” agenda, which translates to an already excessively overdrawn and broken strategic credibility.
2021-07-26 16:09
Why Washington intends to stir up Asia arms race?
By contrast, Washington wants to see China and US allies and partners engage in an arms race — it knows this will damage both Beijing and other Asian countries. But fortunately, US allies and partners will not be easily fooled. Although Washington sees China as its top competitor, its allies and partners do not regard China in the same way.
2021-07-22 10:37
U.S. leaves Afghanistan "nothing but trash"
Still surrounded by concrete walls and razor wire, the Bagram Airfield, also known as Bagram Airbase, had been home to the U.S. troops in Afghanistan in the past 20 years.
2021-07-11 22:05
Effects of NATO's Steadfast Defender 2021 exercise questioned
Since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, NATO has carried out exercises and training more frequently with a clear intention of deterring Moscow and rooting for Kyiv.The Steadfast Defender 2021 was intended for the same purpose but had generated the opposite results, as Russia announced to adjust and upgrade its military presence on the European border in response to threats from NATO.
2021-07-09 17:05
Focused on competition, US defense budget highlights high-tech equipment R&D
The Biden administration recently submitted its first fiscal year defense budget to Congress, totaling $752.9 billion. Its structural adjustment is to reduce overseas intervention and emergency military operations, increase innovative research and development efforts, and promote the transformation of the US military and the improvement of its combat effectiveness.
2021-07-08 21:32
International arms control amid major-country competition
As the international strategic landscape is being shaken up, traditional nuclear powers, such as the US and Russia, have shown changes in their perception and judgment of the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons in recent years. As a result, strategic offensive and defensive weapon systems represented by nuclear weapons become an important instrument in the toolbox of major-country strategic competition.
2021-07-08 17:22
Why Australia corners itself to the forefront of confrontation?
Australia in particular, the host country of both exercises, has been making aggressive remarks on Taiwan-related topics recently, and its Prime Minister Scott Morrison even announced shortly before that once war broke out in the Taiwan Strait, Canberra would fulfill its commitment to assisting the US and its Indo-Pacific allies. Why does Australia keep making war provocations?
2021-07-07 16:06
Afghanistan, testament to US mess-making
The security situation in Afghanistan has been worsening with each passing day since the United States commenced its troop withdrawal from the country on May 1. Yet, it seems the worst is still to come as the irresponsible US decision is leaving a huge security vacuum that plays right into the hands of the Taliban and other extremist actors.
2021-06-29 15:29
Europe still doesn't understand the benefits of active dialogue
It should be a blueprint for the EU on how to deal with Putin. Russia and Brussels will invariably pursue their own geopolitical interests. However, a dialogue must always be offered openly, and the past few years of empty, misguided sanctions are a testament to the latter.
2021-06-28 17:11
The Pentagon's strategy on Afghanistan is based on confusion and lack of clarity
The Pentagon must understand that such lack of clarity has implications and poses a number of questions centered on the rationale for limiting withdrawals based on Taliban gains when spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claims that the group is abiding by the commitments while relentlessly pursuing territorial gains at the same time.
2021-06-25 23:30
UN resolution on Cuba embargo shows U.S. unpopularity
The United Nations General Assembly on June 23 voted for the 29th year in a row demanding an end to the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba. Only two countries – the U.S. itself and Israel – voted against the resolution and three countries – Colombia, Ukraine, and Brazil – abstained, meanwhile 184 countries voted for the resolution.
2021-06-25 17:33
Russia's warning about an Asian arms race must be taken seriously
This year's Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) saw two of the most important Russian military officials warning about an Asian arms race provoked by the U.S. According to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, America's deployment of intermediate-range missiles to the Asia-Pacific will prompt his country to bolster its offensive capabilities in defensive response.
2021-06-24 17:16
Blinken's China containment agenda 'shaky' in Europe trip
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off his Europe trip on Tuesday, less than two weeks after President Joe Biden ended his trip to the continent with an agenda concentrated on countering China.
2021-06-24 17:08
Cartel of killers: UK, US and Canada jointly whip up global Xinjiang hysteria, but what about their joint history of systemic genocide, violence and enthnic cleansing?
The US, Canada, and the UK, and some of the Western countries wishing to accuse China of committing "genocide," a "projection" of facts based on their own heinous past and continued systemic violence and oppression, assumed China would do the same.
2021-06-21 15:48
G7 came up short on tangible benefits
The three-day meeting of the G7, which groups the wealthiest economies, wound up on June 13 at the English resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, having barely entered the public's consciousness.
2021-06-21 23:50
Data prove the US is world’s mass-killing machine
The US deploys military forces in over 150 countries around the world, with approximately 165,000 active-service personnel stationed outside its territories and hundreds of military bases covering nearly all the continents.
2021-06-19 17:10
NATO playing perilous game with anti-China declamation
The just concluded NATO Summit in Brussels has sent a disturbing message on China, a message that could trigger an arms race and undermine world peace. While its rhetoric against China seems less harsh than against Russia, the fact that China featured prominently for the first time on its agenda and in its communique is disquieting.
2021-06-18 15:24
Euro Quad reflects US intent to set hierarchy within NATO
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a meeting with his counterparts from France, Germany and the UK on Tuesday in Brussels. Austin said on Twitter that the meeting was "the first Euro Quad Defense Ministerial since 2014."
2021-06-17 19:25
Long-expected summit had low expectations
The Geneva summit of United States President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not present "a big set of deliverables". But that is within anticipation, and does not weaken the significance of the meeting.
2021-06-17 15:45
How to understand NATO designating China as 'systemic challenge'?
Thirty NATO member states held a summit at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on June 14. According to the joint communiqué reached at the summit, working with allies to unanimously deal with China has become one of the most important topics of Biden's Europe trip.
2021-06-17 17:09
A new Cold War is bad idea for NATO
The U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) published a communiqué after its Brussels summit on Monday which contained several very strong criticisms against China.
2021-06-16 20:42
Fort Detrick and COVID-19: Why do the Chinese want an investigation?
The U.S. has yet to let go of the "lab leak theory" on COVID-19 origin. After the WHO-China joint research concluded that it's a waste of time to look into this dead-end theory in March, U.S. President Joe Biden followed his predecessor Donald Trump and called for another investigation on the Wuhan-based biolab.
2021-06-07 09:33
More or fewer nukes – that is the question
Increasing one's own capability while trying to deprive the other of theirs looks eerily like the act of somebody with the prospect of military confrontation in mind.
2021-06-07 09:44
U.S. Afghan withdrawal: A legacy of lessons not learned
On June 3, a bomb was detonated in Western Kabul, killing four civilians. The attack not only ended the lives of innocent civilians but leaves behind grieving families and friends. The attack went largely unreported. This is by no means an isolated incident and has become a regular occurrence faced by Afghans. As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw in September, is the U.S. leaving the region safer, what lessons have gone unheeded and what have the wider consequences been?
2021-06-07 09:37
To sell frigates to Indonesia, Japan likely to bypass pacifist constitution restrictions
The Japanese government might deliberately bypass the Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology restrictions and sell 30FFM multi-mission frigates to Indonesia, according to recent Japanese media reports.
2021-05-20 17:40
Game players must be wary of miscalculation
In an apparent show of force and with an eye on China, the United States, France and Japan kicked off week-long joint ground and naval military exercises on Tuesday in Japan's Kyushu region.
2021-05-17 09:46
US likely to boost military presence in Indo-Pacific
The United States has made clear its intention to strengthen its presence in the Indo-Pacific region.
2021-05-17 09:48

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