World Military Analysis
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Britain to double military expenditure in next eight years
British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace recently announced that Britain's military spending will double and reach 100 billion pounds by 2030, the plan to double military spending in eight years has aroused intense attention and the timing also reflects multiple considerations on the UK side.
2022-09-30 19:49 -
US goes further down wrong road of space militarization
Facts have proven that America's obsessive development of space weapons will not help it achieve the strategic ambition to dominate the space. On the contrary, it will seriously damage the global strategic balance and cause the arms race to overspill into the outer space.
2022-09-27 19:09 -
Implementation of Iran nuclear deal to be revived, promising or not
A new round of talks trying to salvage the Iran nuclear deal co nvened in Vienna has been ongoing for a year and a half since April 2021. While hopes are repeatedly seen during the negotiating process, the process has also tended to be disappointing.
2022-09-27 10:26 -
Who will take Pentagon to task for its massive carbon footprint?
This story of American double standards is no different when it comes to the fight against climate change. The U.S. government typically resorts to grandstanding on its climate stance, taking a moral high ground while calling for corrective action. Yet, the White House is always silent on the Pentagon's enormous contribution to climate change.
2022-09-28 22:33 -
Countries to join hands to promote international gun control
China, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a responsible member of the international community, hopes to take the opportunity of initiating the domestic ratification of the UN Firearms Protocol to join hands with other countries to promote the international gun control process and achieve positive results.
2022-09-27 17:35 -
Global efforts for peace and prosperity needed
The more severe and complex the international situation becomes, the more urgent it is for countries to maintain communication and interaction. That the Chinese delegation was one of the busiest ones among all the delegations on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week has demonstrated China's strong sense of responsibility as a major country.
2022-09-26 20:53 -
Quad's ambition on UN reform likely leads to nowhere
The Quad was established as a security dialogue at the beginning, and it has gradually been shaped into an organization involving cooperation in multiple spheres. The urge for a UN reform can be considered a breakthrough for the group, as it is more evident than ever that the Quad countries hope for a bigger say in the global community.
2022-09-25 22:33 -
Why America's "new alliance system" is doomed to fail
This means that the new alliance system that the US has in mind with China and Russia as the imaginary enemies is essentially a loose system of values rather than an all-around alliance system encompassing values as well as political, military and economic aspects like during the Cold War.
2022-09-23 18:12 -
Britain issues first space power document
Analysts believe that this marks that the development of the British military's space force construction has entered an "acceleration period". However, due to the limitation of its own strength, the UK's space force still faces many difficulties in its development.
2022-09-20 17:27 -
US seeking hegemony with nuclear force to harm other countries and itself
It is reported the US has possessed 5,428 nuclear warheads as of January 2022, ranking top in the world. The US nuclear strikes mainly include three types, that is, with land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles and strategic bombers, forming a 3-D nuclear strike system of land, sea and air. In addition, the US has a large number of small tactical nuclear weapons. Data show that the US has about 400 nuclear bombs, which can be carried and dropped by multi-model fighter jets.
2022-09-23 18:00 -
Unconventional military exchanges between Germany, Japan in Asia-Pacific spark concerns on regional security, while influence is limited: expert
The purpose of Japan's invitation to Germany to hold joint exercises in the country is very clear. The white paper "Defense of Japan 2022" mentioned: "The United States, Japan's ally, and Australia, India, as well as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other European countries, Canada, and New Zealand, are countries… (that) have geographic and historical ties to the Indo-Pacific region.
2022-09-22 10:27 -
Japan is urged to correct attitude and eliminate legacy of chemical weapons asap
The Japanese side should have been soberly aware that it will not work if its words do not match with its actions on the issue of chemical weapons abandoned by Japanese in China during the Second World War and tries to slip away unpunished.
2022-09-19 17:50 -
Hard to conclude AUKUS partnership not engaged in nuclear proliferation
Australia says it will be unable and unwilling to use the fuel in its submarines to make nuclear weapons since the vessels will have "welded power units" containing nuclear material that would need chemical processing for use in nuclear weapons, and it neither has nor wants the facilities to do that.
2022-09-19 15:25 -
What has Australia gained in the year after establishment of AUKUS
Australia has always thought itself in a super-alliance with the US, but the fact is that the US guided by its egoistic foreign policy has not and will not put Australia's security and interests at the forefront. Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser once said the US was the "most dangerous ally" to Australia.
2022-09-17 15:23 -
EU's hypersonic weapons have long way to go
The three-year project aims to establish a complete system including interceptors and sensors and integrate them into the air defense system for early warning, detection and interception of ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles.
2022-09-16 17:53 -
Nuclear proliferation caused by AUKUS will make the world sweat in the face of teetering security
Exactly one year ago, Australia, the UK and the US jointly unveiled the creation of their enhanced trilateral security partnership called "AUKUS." Under their deal, London and Washington agreed to help Canberra build and operate Australia's own fleet of nuclear-propelled submarines.
2022-09-16 09:11 -
Beware of Japan becoming vanguard of NATO's meddling in Asia Pacific
Japan, a country still haunted by militarism; NATO, the world's largest military organization functioning as a tool to maintain American hegemony. Their closer relationship and attempt to introduce to the Asia Pacific a security model that has already proven a failure in Europe will only lead to new unrest. Japan should be reminded that leading the plague to the East is extremely unwise and inviting a wolf into the house is equal to self-destruction.
2022-09-15 17:29 -
US, UK, Australia's attempt to whitewash nuclear cooperation a flop, again
Nuclear weapons are the sword of Damocles hanging over humanity. The nuclear submarine cooperation among the US, the UK and Australia is not their private matter, much less is it up to them to decide. They must give the world a definite answer on how to perform the non-proliferation obligations, and give up the plot to cover up their nuclear endeavors.
2022-09-14 17:27 -
US double standards exacerbate global proliferation risks
Mankind is an inseparable community with a shared future. All parties in the world must continuously strengthen the universality, authority, and effectiveness of the NPT, resolutely resist and expose the hypocrisy and hegemonic nature of the US and add more stability and certainty to the international community.
2022-09-08 17:49 -
Violations by US troops overseas arouse public outcry
For a long time, the American troops stationed overseas have claimed to maintain the so-called "order" and "rules" in the host countries under the pretext of "security cooperation", while actually, they place themselves above the local laws under the protection of extraterritoriality. Their misconduct and violations have triggered a public outcry.
2022-09-08 17:17 -
One year on, Afghanistan still suffers from US-inflicted pain
Afghans celebrated the one-year anniversary of the US withdrawal from the war-torn country, which is now a national holiday, on Monday. As if intended as a ridicule of Washington which has spent $300 million each day in the past 20 years but in the end fled in disorder, marchers shouted victory slogans beside the US embassy in Kabul.
2022-09-08 14:49 -
Washington's unreliability proves a liability in negotiations with Tehran
Optimism about an imminent Iran nuclear agreement has been waning as Washington on Thursday said Tehran's latest response in negotiations to save the 2015 nuclear deal "not constructive."
2022-09-05 20:12 -
Baffling silence over escalating terrorism in Africa
While the global media is busy covering the Russia-Ukraine conflict in granular detail, there's barely any attention on a crisis snowballing in Africa. Slowly, silently, and surely, the continent is turning into a gigantic hotbed of terrorism on an unprecedented scale.
2022-09-03 16:05 -
Pitch Black 2022 casts gloom over Asia-Pacific security
Pitch Black 2022 shows that Australia has become a "bridgehead" for the US to strengthen its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The US actively woos countries in and outside the region to speed up the establishment of an "Asia-Pacific version of NATO" and steps up the pace of establishing military alliances in the Asia-Pacific region.
2022-09-02 18:40 -
Fear of closer India-Russia ties main reason of US’ sensitiveness on India's participation in military drills
The US is concerned about India's plans to participate in the joint military exercises with Russia, the White House said on Tuesday. Such kind of "concerns" is entirely triggered by US' hegemonic mentality, in line with the manner in which Washington has performed in the international community.
2022-09-02 17:59 -
One year after U.S. pullout: changes in Afghanistan and American sins
America's 20-year stay in Afghanistan cost itself $2.3 trillion, according to data from Brown University's Costs of War Project, but poverty is nonetheless on the rise in the war-battered nation, with the United Nations warning that 6 million are at risk of famine.
2022-09-01 00:29 -
America's hegemonic moves lead to more "Kabul moments"
Cramming "American-style democracy" down the throat of other countries will only make them sick and leave them in chaos. The Costs of War project at Brown University shows that more than 174,000 people, including over 47,000 civilians, have died as a direct result of the Afghan War.The UN Refugee Agency said the Afghan War that lasted nearly 20 years has driven 2.6 million Afghans out of the country and 3.5 million homeless.
2022-08-30 16:36 -
Massive US-ROK military exercise worsens situation on Korean peninsula
The regular, institutionalized military exercises between the US and ROK are detrimental to the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula. Instead of giving ROK a stronger sense of security, it has increased the doubts and mistrust between the south and the north of Korea and thrown them into a new round of security anxiety, harming the security interests of both.
2022-08-29 17:54 -
Why the U.S troops in South Korea should be withdrawn?
It is now no way for the U.S. military presence in South Korea to be seen as a generous endeavor to safeguard South Korea or its so-called democratic values. Rather whole things along this line have gradually been morphing into a potentially disastrous U.S. broader strategy to contain China.
2022-08-29 10:01 -
Regional tensions on the rise with joint drills
The staging of the biggest joint military drills in years by the Republic of Korea and the United States is making waves.
2022-08-28 20:59 -
Blocs heat up arms race in Asia-Pacific
A number of leaders, scholars and observers warned that the US-led security blocs－mostly built in recent years－are risking the region's hard-won peace and rapid economic growth built over the past decades when hyping the possibility of another Ukraine-style crisis in the Asia-Pacific region.
2022-08-24 08:53 -
Plundering oil and food in Syria makes U.S. a world robber
Facts have demonstrated that the U.S. has brought no peace to places it has invaded. It violates the sovereignty of other countries, plunders resources, and harms civilians for its global hegemony. It cares nothing about the "democracy" and "human rights" it has long advocated, and is becoming a world robber rather than the “world policeman.”
2022-08-23 09:42 -
Where is Japan's defense policy heading?
Japanese media reported that Japan's prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Fumio Kishida reshuffled the cabinet and the LDP leadership on August 10. Analysts said several cabinet members, including the defense minister, have been replaced, which indicates that Japan may change its defense policy by modifying the progressive approach left by Shinzo Abe.
2022-08-19 17:19 -
Arms sales a clear breach of promise
Washington pays no heed to the fact that its arms sales have emboldened secessionists on the island, whose maneuvers aimed at securing the island's de facto "independence" have intensified the tensions across the Taiwan Straits. Shutting its eyes to the promise it made in the August 17 Communique, the US has placed its interest and strategic goal of containing the rise of China before honoring its pledge.
2022-08-19 10:33 -
Double-dealing Washington: The world's greatest scourge
Days after Washington reiterated in a phone call with Beijing that it would adhere to the one-China policy and not support "Taiwan independence," U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation to visit Taiwan.
2022-08-18 23:50 -
Peace in Mali a long, hard journey
The latest attack epitomizes the worsening security situation in Mali in the past decade. In 2012, separatists controlled the northern part of the country and sparked the Mali crisis. Since then, terrorist forces have spread southward, subjecting the central and border regions to constant terrorist attacks, with particularly high risks in the capital city of Bamako.
2022-08-18 17:37 -
US stirs up great-power competition in Africa
In the past few decades, the Kosovo war, the war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq launched by the US, as well as the Arab Spring initiated and joined by the US, have not only led to nightmares for the countries and people in these regions but also made the US itself fall into embarrassment. The US Africa strategy is of strong potential for "great-power competition" and Cold War mentality. African countries must be very scrupulous in terms of the willingness to join or the depth of involvement.
2022-08-18 17:10 -
Japan should go no further in whitewashing militarism
August 15 of 2022 marks the 77th anniversary of Japan’s announcement of unconditional surrender in World War II. 77 years ago, the progressive forces in the world defeated Japanese militarism and Fascism. But today, Japan is trying hard to whitewash its history of Asian aggression, turning a blind eye to the sufferings undergone by the people of victimized countries during the war.
2022-08-16 16:09 -
Stay vigilant against Japan's "toxic textbook" on history
Monday marked the 77th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II. This year, some Japanese political leaders still brazenly visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, or sent offerings. Those moves have once again shown the Japanese side's erroneous attitude toward historical issues.
2022-08-16 11:35 -
Historical backpedaling will only lead to dead end
Those who back-pedal on history will only drive into a dead end. The only way for Japan to find its right place in regional development is to face up to its mistakes, own up to its past crimes, learn lessons from history, respect the security concerns of its Asian neighbors, and stick to the road of peaceful development. If it is bent on going against the trend of the times, Japan will eventually fret in its own grease.
2022-08-15 18:10