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 17:51The 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 17:17China 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 16:54The 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 19:36As 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 17:12Removing 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 14:52By 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 22:21Iran's Army Ground Forces (AGF) launched military maneuvers on Friday morning in northwestern areas bordering Azerbaijan and Armenia, state TV reported.
2021-10-02 23:12While 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 15:43Over 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 15:39In 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 09:17The 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 18:09Australia 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 16:15In 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 23:21The 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 17:12That 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 12:50The 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 00:23Australia'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 22:27The 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 22:17US 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 09:34According 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 09:36An 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 09:03India'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 09:35During 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 08:43The 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 17:41Japan 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 10:22In 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 13:03As 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 11:06The 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 21:53Undertaking 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 16:53The 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 09:36With 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 17:32From 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 15:56The 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 21:58Washington 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 21:47Iran'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 18:56Iran'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 20:14Deep 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 17:29The 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 16:40Lies, 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.
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