It should be a blueprint for the EU on how to deal with Putin. Russia and Brussels will invariably pursue their own geopolitical interests. However, a dialogue must always be offered openly, and the past few years of empty, misguided sanctions are a testament to the latter.
2021-06-28 17:11The Pentagon must understand that such lack of clarity has implications and poses a number of questions centered on the rationale for limiting withdrawals based on Taliban gains when spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claims that the group is abiding by the commitments while relentlessly pursuing territorial gains at the same time.
2021-06-25 23:30The United Nations General Assembly on June 23 voted for the 29th year in a row demanding an end to the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba. Only two countries – the U.S. itself and Israel – voted against the resolution and three countries – Colombia, Ukraine, and Brazil – abstained, meanwhile 184 countries voted for the resolution.
2021-06-25 17:33This year's Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) saw two of the most important Russian military officials warning about an Asian arms race provoked by the U.S. According to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, America's deployment of intermediate-range missiles to the Asia-Pacific will prompt his country to bolster its offensive capabilities in defensive response.
2021-06-24 17:16US Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off his Europe trip on Tuesday, less than two weeks after President Joe Biden ended his trip to the continent with an agenda concentrated on countering China.
2021-06-24 17:08The US, Canada, and the UK, and some of the Western countries wishing to accuse China of committing "genocide," a "projection" of facts based on their own heinous past and continued systemic violence and oppression, assumed China would do the same.
2021-06-21 15:48The three-day meeting of the G7, which groups the wealthiest economies, wound up on June 13 at the English resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, having barely entered the public's consciousness.
2021-06-21 23:50The US deploys military forces in over 150 countries around the world, with approximately 165,000 active-service personnel stationed outside its territories and hundreds of military bases covering nearly all the continents.
2021-06-19 17:10The just concluded NATO Summit in Brussels has sent a disturbing message on China, a message that could trigger an arms race and undermine world peace. While its rhetoric against China seems less harsh than against Russia, the fact that China featured prominently for the first time on its agenda and in its communique is disquieting.
2021-06-18 15:24US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a meeting with his counterparts from France, Germany and the UK on Tuesday in Brussels. Austin said on Twitter that the meeting was "the first Euro Quad Defense Ministerial since 2014."
2021-06-17 19:25The Geneva summit of United States President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not present "a big set of deliverables". But that is within anticipation, and does not weaken the significance of the meeting.
2021-06-17 15:45Thirty NATO member states held a summit at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on June 14. According to the joint communiqué reached at the summit, working with allies to unanimously deal with China has become one of the most important topics of Biden's Europe trip.
2021-06-17 17:09The U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) published a communiqué after its Brussels summit on Monday which contained several very strong criticisms against China.
2021-06-16 20:42The U.S. has yet to let go of the "lab leak theory" on COVID-19 origin. After the WHO-China joint research concluded that it's a waste of time to look into this dead-end theory in March, U.S. President Joe Biden followed his predecessor Donald Trump and called for another investigation on the Wuhan-based biolab.
2021-06-07 09:33Increasing one's own capability while trying to deprive the other of theirs looks eerily like the act of somebody with the prospect of military confrontation in mind.
2021-06-07 09:44On June 3, a bomb was detonated in Western Kabul, killing four civilians. The attack not only ended the lives of innocent civilians but leaves behind grieving families and friends. The attack went largely unreported. This is by no means an isolated incident and has become a regular occurrence faced by Afghans. As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw in September, is the U.S. leaving the region safer, what lessons have gone unheeded and what have the wider consequences been?
2021-06-07 09:37The Japanese government might deliberately bypass the Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology restrictions and sell 30FFM multi-mission frigates to Indonesia, according to recent Japanese media reports.
2021-05-20 17:40In an apparent show of force and with an eye on China, the United States, France and Japan kicked off week-long joint ground and naval military exercises on Tuesday in Japan's Kyushu region.
2021-05-17 09:46The United States has made clear its intention to strengthen its presence in the Indo-Pacific region.
2021-05-17 09:48Withdrawing troops is easy, but realizing peace in Afghanistan is not. While Washington is eager to end the 20-year-long war, what that leaves the Afghanis is a colossal security black hole that is almost impossible to patch.
2021-05-08 17:35Ukraine knows the thoughts of outsiders but it cannot do much. Ukraine knows that it is impossible to regain the Eastern Ukraine region through war without the direct support of the West. Ukraine will lose everything if they are not careful. Its seemingly tough postures such as increasing troops to cater to the will of the US are largely out of desperation.
2021-05-06 17:24As the security situation in Afghanistan remains complicated and terrorism keeps festering, analysts deem the U.S. decision as irresponsible and warn against an intensifying civil conflict and more rampant terrorist acts.
2021-04-16 16:32Despite the eloquence of the Department of the Navy eager to secure the funding, there is no feasible solution yet to the moral and ethical controversy over granting unmanned systems the "right to kill". After all, airstrikes executed by American UAVs in Afghanistan and Iraq that caused immense civilian casualties are still being condemned.
2021-04-13 16:55According to a new report by the China Society for Human Rights Studies, the United States has waged 201 armed conflicts among the total 248 that occurred in 153 regions of the world since the end of the World War II in 1945 to 2001.
2021-04-12 23:23The UK has recently released several strategic documents expounding its national defense, diplomatic and national security strategies, as well as the roadmap of its future military reform. As a country outside of the Asian-Pacific region, the UK's eager deployment in the region is driven by deep considerations.
2021-04-12 17:34US President Joe Biden said on March 25 that Washington would not be able to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by May 1 under the timeline agreed with the Afghan Taliban due to "tactical reasons." The postponed US withdrawal is tantamount to unilaterally tearing up its agreement with the Taliban, which would bring continuous instability to the Middle East.
2021-03-31 16:45U.S. President Joe Biden has mulled over extending the May 1 deadline set last year by his predecessor Donald Trump with the Taliban for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
2021-03-29 15:01As part of efforts to build a "Global Britain," the country decided to dramatically increase its nuclear arsenal earlier in the week. The plan came under fire immediately domestically before it went out globally, with many Britons criticizing it as a "provocative, illegal and morally obscene use of resources."
2021-03-21 20:13The great value of space is being extensively recognized with the development of space technologies. As the fourth domain after the land, sea and air, it has become another highland contested fiercely by all countries.
2021-03-17 16:38Analysts pointed out that despite its highest military spending and strongest military strengths in the world, Uncle Sam has not invested its power in preserving world peace, but has instead constantly interfered in or even invaded other countries through the illegal use of force in order to protect its own hegemony and interests.
2021-03-11 16:39With the UK exiting the EU and Trump leaving the White House, France, as a recognized nuclear state, seems to have everything in its favor to cement its leadership on the European continent.
2021-03-10 16:54US has been carrying out the so-called "freedom of navigation" operations here on a high profile to flaunt its military hegemony and strength, and the US has been recruiting allies to help share the burden. London proposed to return to the Asia-Pacific to meet this strategic demand of the US.
2021-03-04 16:20The U.S. strike in eastern Syria earlier on Friday proves that the U.S. foreign policy is still unchanged under the administration of Joe Biden, Syrian experts say.
2021-02-26 23:56Recently, the White House announced that US President Joe Biden tasked Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin to conduct a global posture review on US military deployments worldwide, during which the US would suspend the plan to withdraw troops from Germany.
2021-02-23 17:31After Myanmar's military detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint and other elected leaders in early morning raids on Monday, a popular view in the West is that US President Joe Biden should seize the chance to restore the US' global leadership.
2021-02-16 16:39Days after Turkey's defense minister Hulusi Akar sought to advance strategic reconciliation with Washington on the deployment of Russian-manufactured S-400 air defense systems, both parties are set to fall short of a strategic compromise.
2021-02-14 18:20It did not come as a surprise, but Moscow and Brussels' relations have further deteriorated since Josep Borrell's visit the previous week. After Germany, Poland and Sweden responded in kind, and each expelled a Russian diplomat. Sergei Lavrov is now openly contemplating the Kremlin's readiness to cease contact with the European Union entirely.
2021-02-14 16:10The Chinese Ministry of National Defense announced on Wednesday that "The Chinese and Indian frontline troops at the southern and northern bank of the Pangong Tso Lake start synchronized and organized disengagement from February 10." This follows the outcome of their ninth round of China-India Corps Commander Level Meeting.
2021-02-13 16:35After last year's standoffs on the Sino-Indian border that led to casualties on both sides, the news that Chinese and Indian troops, along the Southern and Northern sides of the Pangong Tso Lake, started a synchronized and organized disengagement on February 10 are positive.
2021-02-12 21:43Military confrontation will only further complicate and strain the Iranian nuclear issue and the regional situation, while dialogue among the parties is the only feasible way to restore peace and stability in the region.
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