The joining of Sweden and Finland will further deteriorate the security situation in Europe, plunge European countries into more serious geopolitical turmoil and risks, and even lead to unpredictable consequences. This is not conducive to the long-term development of the European continent and deserves close attention from the international community.
2022-05-24 17:59Washington's new pronouncement seems to lack sincerity and actions as America's so-called security cooperation has taken a heavy toll on Southeast Asian countries in recent years, especially with its sale of U.S.-made second-hand weapons.
2022-05-20 22:13What fits Japan's strategic interest is the ease of tensions between China and US and regional stability, rather than engaging in major power confrontations and making itself a military. The later would only increase the risk of involving itself in war.
2022-05-20 17:18Both Finland and Sweden have announced the decisions to apply to join NATO in succession, which means that NATO intends to go further northward following the previous five rounds of eastward expansion.
2022-05-18 20:36The attempt to extend North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership to Ukraine, which Russia perceives as a security threat, has long been opposed by France and Germany. Meanwhile, Finland and Sweden are knocking on NATO's door.
2022-05-17 18:06If NATO expands northwards and incorporates Finland and Sweden -- two Nordic countries with longstanding neutral and military non-alignment policies -- into its military alliance, it will undoubtedly intensify confrontation with Russia and lead to further deterioration of the security situation in the Baltic Sea region and Europe as a whole, analysts say.
2022-05-11 19:34Foreign media reported that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Asian and European countries from April 29 to May 6. Tokyo's purposes and intentions for making these visits are worth close attention because they have assumed new implications given the complexity and sensitivity of the current international situation.
2022-05-09 18:39As the instigator of the current predicament, the US is obligated to take practical measures instead of the ongoing wrong policy of extreme pressure, actively respond to Iran's legitimate and reasonable concerns, and facilitate the early resolution of outstanding issues.
2022-05-09 17:21History has repeatedly shown us that security for different countries is indivisible, that no country shall guarantee its own security at the expense of that of other countries. NATO's mode of operation that features bloc confrontation divides regional countries into two groups – either a NATO member or a non-member, which will only create a stronger sense of insecurity and drag everyone into the security paradox and dilemma where they constantly escalate the alarm and hostility toward each other.
2022-05-07 16:56The US has clamored about "rules-based international order" like a catchphrase, but hundreds of thousands of civilians have died, millions have been injured and tens of millions have become homeless because of it – their blood and tears suffice to call out the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of "American-style democracy".
2022-05-06 18:21A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched on April 21, 2022, sending another 53 Starlink internet satellites to the low-earth orbit (LEO), driving the total number of Starlink satellites to nearly 2,400. SpaceX has decided to increase the number of Starlink satellites from 12,000 to 42,000 – the program’s unchecked expansion and the company’s ambition to use it for military purposes should put the international community on high alert.
2022-05-05 17:13As a matter of fact, the US has a deplorable track record in compliance with arms control and nonproliferation agreements and commitments.The US has withdrawn from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Open Skies Treaty, unsigned the Arms Trade Treaty, and flip-flopped on the Iranian nuclear issue.
2022-05-05 18:08Analysts fear that the United States and its Western allies could simply nullify all diplomatic efforts by repeatedly providing military assistance to Ukraine.
2022-05-02 22:25The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s Research Commission on Security, which was chaired by former defense minister Itsunori Onodera, recently proposed to revise the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Program Guidelines, and the Mid-term Defense Program. It called for increasing Japan's defense expenditure to 2% of GDP, the standard for NATO members, in the next five years.
2022-04-24 17:32The noteworthy divergences between the two candidates running for the French presidency have not only revealed France's domestic problems, but also the more conspicuous rift across Europe, and the conflict between Europe's pursuit of strategic independence and America's hegemony. If these problems remain unsolved, the rift in European society is sure to widen in the foreseeable future.
2022-04-22 17:37Washington and Canberra's repeated intervention in China-Solomon cooperation is a manifestation of overbearing bullying. Australia, the self-styled South Pacific dominator and an eager assistant in America's "Indo-Pacific strategy", took the lead to put pressure on China-Solomon security cooperation, but to no avail.
2022-04-21 17:46India's current status of weapons research and development still lags behind its ambitious development plan, especially in the field of missile research and development. Although India has mastered relevant technologies of missile manufacturing, it has few independent intellectual property rights, and many core technologies come from abroad.
2022-04-20 17:53Australia's picking sides so quickly has eroded the impression it leaves with the surrounding countries and laid waste to its efforts in previous decades to merge with Asia. Meanwhile, its growing military strike capabilities have also disgruntled Southeast Asia countries and even America's other allies in the Indo-Pacific region.
2022-04-19 17:19People of the world are seeing more and more clearly what the US-style human rights diplomacy has brought to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. It is not "democracy" and "freedom", but a human tragedy consisting of endless wars, turmoil, the death of many civilians, and the influx of refugees.
2022-04-15 18:24No matter what security mechanism Japan participates in to contain China, Japan can only play the role of a proxy war participant for the US with no real assistance obtained from the US, once it gets involved in a war designed by the US.
2022-04-15 18:13The gunshots constantly echoing on American soil show that guns have no longer been a "weapon for defending freedom"; instead, it is a "scythe" that ruthlessly cut people's lives. How much will the American people have to pay to completely cut off the huge "malignant tumor"?
2022-04-14 17:57South Korea has been gripped with rising fear over US biological weapons laboratories operated by the USFK, aiming to transform the Asian country into its "overseas hub" for biological warfare experiments.
2022-04-13 19:05Provocative comments by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg have once again distorted China's responsible position of promoting peace talks to resolve the Ukraine crisis and served to hype up Beijing's supposed threat to the security of the Western alliance's members, analysts said.
2022-04-13 09:50Facts prove that what America has done – pursuing its own interests at the expense of other countries – is extremely detrimental to international security and stability. As the "destroyer" of international security, it must do some serious self-reflection, stop its dirty tricks of rocking regional security, and stop speculating on and profiteering from wars!
2022-04-11 16:54The Russia-Ukraine conflict is still going on, with innumerable families suffering. However, on the other side of the Earth, some people are counting their bloody money.
2022-04-11 17:49A new arms race has emerged in many parts of the world, triggered largely by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
2022-04-11 16:10NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is finding fault with China again, nonsensically bashing it for not condemning Russia's military action in Ukraine and hyping up Beijing's threat to NATO's security.
2022-04-10 17:29By "We have seen that China is unwilling to condemn Russia's aggression, and Beijing has joined Moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path," said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after a meeting on April 7. He also called it "a serious challenge to us al".
2022-04-09 17:47The world won't be a safer place for more weapons, just like a furnace won't cool down for more coal. History and reality both prove that America's pursuit of hegemony and absolute security by increasing military spending without limit will only lead to the opposite results than what it expects.
2022-04-07 17:06For Washington, bloody suffering of others can always be turned into golden opportunities for profits. Yet while Washington tries all the way to maximize its self-interests at the cost of others, it is also inevitably revealing its true color of hypocrisy and egomania before the eyes of the world.
2022-04-07 12:38The meeting on the Afghan issue is an important step taken by neighboring countries to jointly step up the support and aid to Afghanistan, and a meaningful attempt by the international community to search for a new way of resolving hotspot issues.
2022-04-06 17:05It has been over one month since the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out. The damaged Ukrainian cities and displaced refugees remind people of the cruelty of war. However, the US, which instigated and added fuel to the crisis, is actually a big winner.
2022-04-05 15:56It is interesting to watch the White House going hectic for days trying to undo what its master said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power".
2022-04-04 17:19For anyone with a sense of humanity and some knowledge of history, it is sad to witness Russia and Ukraine, two independent countries boasting the same Slavic origin, drawn into a military conflict -- but not for politicians in Washington.
2022-04-03 17:29Perhaps the Europeans need to seriously rethink whether a wantonly expanding NATO is truly conducive to peace and stability in Europe in the long run. The newly approved "Strategic Compass" offers a clue that the EU is well aware of its need of stronger strategic autonomy, not weaker.
2022-03-27 15:03The relations between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the past 30 years have experienced a downward spiral from honeymoon to spat, from detente to bickering, and from new cold war to quasi-hot war, an expert has told Xinhua recently.
2022-03-27 15:10The U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy seeks to extend strategic influence in the region through ganging-up to suit the U.S. own interests, which will undermine the region's stability and development, an expert specializing in ASEAN studies has said.
2022-03-26 17:17Injustice is doomed to destruction. We advise the US side to do some serious soul-searching, stop pouring oil on the Ukraine issue, and take concrete actions to mitigate the situation and solve the problem. Otherwise, it will only expand the scale of the humanitarian crisis and plunge the region and the world into an abyss of suffering.
2022-03-25 18:00A month has passed since Russia launched a "special military operation" in Ukraine. The United States has not only failed to take practical measures to de-escalate the situation, but continued to "fan the flames" through weapon assistance and sanctions.
2022-03-25 20:22That Ukraine has been reduced into the forefront of major-country confrontation has also hurt Europe. Against such a backdrop, creating a balanced, valid and sustainable European security architecture seems far beyond reach. In the current entanglement, how to realize "strategic independence" and "lasting peace" in the real sense is a question the Europeans should really think about.
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