Kill the Carriers: How China Plans to Win a Superpower Showdown Against America

posted in: Far East, News

A scary concept. The Third Taiwan Crisis was a brutal lesson for a China. More than twenty years ago, a military confrontation in East Asia pushed the United States and China uncomfortably close to conflict. Largely unknown in America, the … Read More

Japan deploys missile units on southwest islands amid China’s rise

posted in: Far East, News

TOKYO Japan deployed ground force units including missile squads Tuesday in two southwestern islands between the East China Sea and the western Pacific where Chinese naval vessels are actively sailing. About 550 Ground Self-Defense Force members were stationed on Amami-Oshima … Read More

France’s Emmanuel Macron asks Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker to join meeting with Xi Jinping in Paris

posted in: European Union, News

Surprise move comes as the European Union’s new, more assertive China policy is being debated in Brussels amid pressure from Paris and Berlin French leader plans to explain Europe’s new strategy on China, with focus on trade and the environment … Read More

Trump’s trade war puts China’s once vaunted economy in real peril

Photo by: Ben Margot The Yang Ming shipping line container ship Ym Utmost is unloaded at the Port of Oakland on Monday, July 2, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. The Trump administration on Friday, July 6, 2018, will start imposing tariffs on $34 … Read More

Germany’s Policy Choices Are Hastening The Decline Of NATO

German soldiers take a rest on a Leopard2 A6 tank during the NATO military exercise ‘Iron Wolf 2017’ at Stasenai, 80 miles west-north of Vilnius, Lithuania, June 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) Much has been written over the last two … Read More

Weekly Update from Mark Armstrong – 22 February 2019

posted in: News, Weekly Update

Greetings from Tyler, Has anybody seen about enough glamor shots of the bearded boy no one had ever heard of three weeks ago? Maybe they could just stick with his mug shot, though it looks like he feigned the same … Read More

US military plans new war-fighting concept in response to threat from China, Russia

It involves ‘stealth and joint penetration’ on land, in the air and at sea, causing simultaneous dilemmas for adversaries to effectively fight back US Air Force chief of staff says US$135 billion budget will be sought for ‘penetrating capability’ The … Read More

Russia and China in terrifying plot ‘to form an alliance against the West’

posted in: News, Russia

RUSSIA will turn its back on Europe for good and join forces with China “to form an alliance against the West” according to reports in Politico. Moscow no longer cares about “European integration or moving towards Europe” instead it is … Read More

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