The world is full of obvious things that many choose not to observe. Such as the fact that, despite all its cries of alarm about this or that country being a threat to peace and stability, it is the United States that is the most gung ho and habitual destroyer of both.
2023-02-01 10:00Analysts pointed out that the US is making the gesture spuriously, but in fact, it is fueling the flames from a safe distance. The Associated Press said that the US had put pressure on its allies to provide more weapons, but it was being vague about the details of the delivery because it did not want to take the lead.
2023-01-31 18:00Recently, Ambassador Dai Bing made the remarks on the Ukraine issue at the Security Council, expressing that there is no winner in conflict and confrontation, and dialogue and negotiation is the only realistic and feasible way to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. He also called on the international community to focus on promoting peace talks, encouraging Russia and Ukraine to return to negotiations, and accumulating conditions for an early ceasefire and cessation of hostilities.
2023-01-31 16:59Although the future of China-Japan relationship is anything but optimistic, one thing we must bear in mind -which is also what sets it apart from the China-US relationship -is that China and Japan are after all close neighbors of geographical proximity.
2023-01-31 17:09These confrontational attempts from the U.S. side have put the Beijing-Washington relationship at risk. In the post-COVID era that calls for peace and development, stabilizing the China-U.S. relationship, one of the most important pair of bilateral relations, remains of vital importance. Nonetheless, Washington's anti-China endeavors have become a source of chaos for the world.
2023-01-31 10:52China is currently facing an increasingly complex international situation in its surrounding areas with mounting uncertainties — cooperation and dialogue coexist with disputes and local conflicts. When discussing the situation in China's neighborhood, we should pay special attention to the fact that the problems are not caused by regional countries, but rather, external interference and provocations. Behind the rough winds is the United States.
2023-01-31 08:49Data released by the US State Department on January 25 showed that US arms sales to other countries and regions had a year-over-year increase of nearly 50 percent in Fiscal Year 2022. One important reason is the escalation of the Ukraine crisis. Many analysts pointed out that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is a tragedy for the world, but American arms dealers have made big fortune out of this crisis.
2023-01-30 16:45During their visits, U.S. officials have attempted to drive a wedge between China and Africa by raising concerns about African debt. The so-called "debt trap" has long been a narrative trap set by the West to smear China-Africa cooperation.
2023-01-30 09:42The past year of 2022 has seen an eventful world shrouded in dark clouds of conflicts, with joint military exercises being staged one after another across the world against the background of the yearlong Russia-Ukraine conflict. As confrontation is growing in intensity, military exercises have become more tech-oriented - new technologies are tested, new equipment keeps emerging, and new forces are coming to the fore.
2023-01-29 17:56Japan and South Korea should have been beneficiaries of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region and regional integration. However, they have turned into destroyers of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region amidst the populist agitation of domestic conservative politicians.
2023-01-29 17:55The recent "two plus two" meeting between American and Japanese foreign and defense ministers once again had China in its crosshairs. Not only did the two countries agree to expand their military cooperation targeting China as an imaginary enemy, but they also vowed to keep a close eye on China’s ongoing and accelerating nuclear weapon development.
2023-01-28 18:23The Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz in Guam, the first newly constructed Marine Corps base in 70 years by the US, has been officially activated on January 26, according to several US media reports. Those reports analyzed that this is a specific move to implement measures to enhance strength against the so-called "great-power competition", especially to boost military intervention capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region.
2023-01-28 17:53For NATO desiring to extend its tentacles into the Asia-Pacific region and India eager to obtain a bigger say in regional affairs, an increased interaction may be a relatively reasonable stopgap for both. But if such cooperation goes further, New Delhi will have to encounter severe backlash from its people and face greater losses of diplomatic and strategic autonomy.
2023-01-27 22:06China's Y-20 large transport aircraft is expected to generate more variants and get more powerful engines after a series of successful development and mission deployments since its maiden flight one decade ago, experts said on Friday. The domestically developed military cargo plane celebrated the 10th anniversary of its maiden flight on Thursday.
2023-01-27 22:03In 2022, the US issued a new-version National Security Strategy (NSS), in which the Asia-Pacific region is viewed as a major area for frontier deployment. The US aims to have frontier deployment featuring "multi-functions, higher flexibility and tenacity" in Japan, while working hand in hand with Japan to promote multilateral military cooperation with other countries.
2023-01-20 17:30Japan has several reasons for piling all these advanced weapon systems on the super destroyer – this will help it acquire the aggressive capabilities of attacking the military bases and commanding units of other countries, something it has dreamed of for a long time, and will also significantly augment the capability of its maritime, land and air platforms to carry out strikes in coordination.
2023-01-19 23:31Some American media recently reported that Asia has come to a period of massive arms race that's never seen before, which is at risk of getting out of control as the region is splitting into two major blocs – the US-Japan-ROK bloc and the China-Russia-DPRK bloc.
2023-01-18 17:58Europe has been pushed to the front line of confrontation with Russia while the US is watching the show at a safe distance. The US passed on the cost of confrontation with Russia to Europe, which is to pass on the risks and contradictions to Europe. Under such circumstances, Europe should really evaluate the decision of signing a joint declaration of cooperation with NATO and further concentrate European defense dominance in the hands of the US based on its own real interests.
2023-01-18 17:41Against the backdrop of the China-India tension in recent years, Japan has a mind to cozy up to India that also sees China as a rival. In addition to hyping up the “China threat theory”, now it has put forth the so-called “regional threat theory” and turned its back on the four political documents and the four-principle consensus reached with China, said Lyu Yaodong.
2023-01-17 21:08The Asian Pacific region is a highland of peace and development, not an arena for the geopolitical game. Its fast economic growth in the past decades is attributed to a peaceful and stable environment.As an Asian Pacific country, Japan should know very well that any action against the trend of the time and detrimental to the general interests of regional countries is doomed to fail.
2023-01-16 17:32On January 14, the Chinese navy's aircraft carrier Shandong taskforce conducted a live-fire confrontation drill in the waters of the South China Sea. Song Zhongping, a military expert, said that the aircraft carrier Shandong has possessed the ability to carry out various combat and support missions in rough sea conditions, demonstrating that the generation path of Chinese aircraft carriers' support and combat capabilities has been completely standardized.
2023-01-16 17:27In a historic shift from the post-World War II international order, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cast off the country's pacifist limitations during a recent meeting with United States President Joe Biden, a move that will increase regional and geopolitical tension. "Japan has actually broken out of its six decades of pacifist status," said Wang Qi, a researcher of East Asia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
2023-01-16 09:45Possibly the single most alarming reminder of the entrenched nature of the project to secure a military rebirth of Japan is the continuous veneration of war criminals at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine. Many political leaders continue to venerate as war heroes over 1,000 convicted war criminals and 14 A-Class war criminals.
2023-01-14 16:59The anti-China stunt pulled by American politicians is against the historical trend of peace, development and win-win cooperation. The dilemma facing the China-US relationship today should be fully attributed to the “Cold War mentality” that American politicians find it so hard to let go. It's high time that Uncle Sam, still indulged in major country confrontations and the fantasy of a "Cold War winner", woke up to the new reality.
2023-01-13 17:41Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) conducted a parachute drop training at the Narashino Training Area in Chiba Prefecture on January 8, and paratroopers from the US, UK and Australia also participated in the training, according to Japanese media reports.
2023-01-13 17:26The Tokyo-London defense agreement signed on Wednesday, seen as "a bilateral version of NATO", will stir tensions in the Asia-Pacific and undermine regional peace and development, experts have warned. The Reciprocal Access Agreement signed by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida creates a legal basis for the deployment of British and Japanese troops on each other's territory for training and other operations.
2023-01-13 09:55NATO and the EU signed a joint declaration on cooperation on January 10, saying that China's growing assertiveness and policies presented challenges that they need to address. For the EU, which seeks security and development, strengthening its ties with NATO is only a fruitless approach that may drag itself into the vortex of more conflicts and confrontation.
2023-01-12 18:32If Europe wants to enjoy true security, it should work on a balanced, effective and sustainable regional security architecture rather than join the confrontational bloc pulled together by the US to achieve its own selfish goals.
2023-01-12 17:02The top US Marine Corps general in Japan has said that the US is "setting the theater" in the Asia-Pacific region the same way it did in Ukraine after 2014. Putting that military-speak into ordinary words: the United States is preparing to initiate a future conflict in the region in the same way it did in Ukraine following the US-backed ousting of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
2023-01-12 11:03The US DoD's recent revelation of a so-called defense plan for Guam that comprises the Standard Missile (SM), Patriot, and Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile systems to enhance Guam's anti-missile capability has captured extensive attention in the international community.
2023-01-11 17:32Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida departed from Tokyo Haneda Airport by special plane to visit five member countries of the Group of Seven (G7) including France, Italy, the UK, Canada, and the US, on January 9, local time. In response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and China's movement, one of the main contents of Kishida's visit is to strengthen security cooperation with other G7 members, especially with the US.
2023-01-11 17:50Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with US President Joe Biden in Washington DC on January 13. This will be Kishida's first official trip to the US since he took office. Kishida said his meeting with Biden will be "very important" and "more significant than showing my face as G7 president," and "will show to the rest of the world an even stronger Japan-US alliance, which is a lynchpin of Japanese security and diplomacy."
2023-01-11 09:21Acquisition of the Type 054A/Ps is a symbol of enduring friendship and historical affinity between China and Pakistan. The Type 054A/P is one of the latest multi-role frigates of Chinese origin equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and sensors that include CM-302 SSM and LY-80 SAMs as well as the advanced anti-submarine warfare suite and combat management system. These ships are equipped to operate under multi-threat scenarios.
2023-01-11 09:15To make Tokyo become strategically sober as soon as possible is a serious problem that both the Japanese society and the Asia-Pacific region need to face and find ways to solve. The current political ecology, public opinion and social thinking in Japan are all showing disturbing signs. If these signs are not extinguished as soon as possible, there is a high risk that a fire will break out, and even Washington will not be able to stay out of it.
2023-01-11 09:23The American side's denial of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration's recent statement that the two countries are discussing the possibility of conducting nuclear exercises and seeking to share America's nuclear weapons reflected an intriguing shift of attitude.
2023-01-10 19:17Now Japan is tying itself tightly to the US chariot, constantly seeking offensive capabilities and trying to break through the constraints of the pacifist Constitution, which will pose a major threat to world peace.
2023-01-10 10:29That would kill two birds with one stone for the US. As Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has said, without the ability to maintain or sustain a naval nuclear propulsion system, the submarines cannot be operated without US supervision, which essentially means they will be under US control.
2023-01-10 15:22Ever since the Age of Exploration, those countries have used their maritime hegemony to exercise colonialism and power politics, so much so that they still tend to coerce other countries with gunboats in the modern day. Given their own history and experience, they, seeing that China is strengthening its navy, naturally imagine that China would repeat the path they have taken before.
2023-01-09 18:14According to a US Naval News website report on Tuesday, as well as two large warships dedicated to ballistic missile defense that it is building to replace the canceled land-based Aegis missile defense system, Japan plans to build two new destroyers equipped with the US' Aegis missile system, increasing the number from eight to 10.
2023-01-08 18:15As an important part of the US government, Congress is obliged to abide by the one-China policy the US government has vowed to follow and avoid any official exchanges with Taiwan. And US politicians should never try to hollow out the one-China principle, because it directly affects the political foundation for the two countries' relations and could force Beijing to take countermeasures.
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