World Military Analysis
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UK's new South China Sea policy reeks of stale colonialism
In fact, the latest voyage of British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth is not simply what London calls a crossing of South China Sea waters in accordance with international law, but is a carefully planned trick serving multiple purposes.
2021-07-29 10:08 -
"America first" is greatest harm to multilateralism
In the face of the increasing tension arising from the pandemic, instead of committing themselves to fight the pandemic in the US, some US politicians continue to play the old tricks of stigmatizing China over pandemic, labeling the virus with certain regions in China, and politicizing the COVID-19 origin-tracing.
2021-07-27 17:27 -
Lessons From Afghanistan
For the past two decades, the United States has been engaged in a “war against terrorism” in Afghanistan, starting in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now it's leaving hastily and recklessly under the pretext of “great power competition.” Two decades on, the episode begs the question: Has America's strategic goal in Afghanistan been achieved? What are the lessons?
2021-07-27 15:10 -
US’s long overdrawn, ruined strategic credibility
No matter how spectacular its vision might be, the US is perpetually committed to the “America first” agenda, which translates to an already excessively overdrawn and broken strategic credibility.
2021-07-26 16:09 -
Why Washington intends to stir up Asia arms race?
By contrast, Washington wants to see China and US allies and partners engage in an arms race — it knows this will damage both Beijing and other Asian countries. But fortunately, US allies and partners will not be easily fooled. Although Washington sees China as its top competitor, its allies and partners do not regard China in the same way.
2021-07-22 10:37 -
U.S. leaves Afghanistan "nothing but trash"
Still surrounded by concrete walls and razor wire, the Bagram Airfield, also known as Bagram Airbase, had been home to the U.S. troops in Afghanistan in the past 20 years.
2021-07-11 22:05 -
Effects of NATO's Steadfast Defender 2021 exercise questioned
Since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, NATO has carried out exercises and training more frequently with a clear intention of deterring Moscow and rooting for Kyiv.The Steadfast Defender 2021 was intended for the same purpose but had generated the opposite results, as Russia announced to adjust and upgrade its military presence on the European border in response to threats from NATO.
2021-07-09 17:05 -
Focused on competition, US defense budget highlights high-tech equipment R&D
The Biden administration recently submitted its first fiscal year defense budget to Congress, totaling $752.9 billion. Its structural adjustment is to reduce overseas intervention and emergency military operations, increase innovative research and development efforts, and promote the transformation of the US military and the improvement of its combat effectiveness.
2021-07-08 21:32 -
International arms control amid major-country competition
As the international strategic landscape is being shaken up, traditional nuclear powers, such as the US and Russia, have shown changes in their perception and judgment of the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons in recent years. As a result, strategic offensive and defensive weapon systems represented by nuclear weapons become an important instrument in the toolbox of major-country strategic competition.
2021-07-08 17:22 -
Why Australia corners itself to the forefront of confrontation?
Australia in particular, the host country of both exercises, has been making aggressive remarks on Taiwan-related topics recently, and its Prime Minister Scott Morrison even announced shortly before that once war broke out in the Taiwan Strait, Canberra would fulfill its commitment to assisting the US and its Indo-Pacific allies. Why does Australia keep making war provocations?
2021-07-07 16:06 -
Afghanistan, testament to US mess-making
The security situation in Afghanistan has been worsening with each passing day since the United States commenced its troop withdrawal from the country on May 1. Yet, it seems the worst is still to come as the irresponsible US decision is leaving a huge security vacuum that plays right into the hands of the Taliban and other extremist actors.
2021-06-29 15:29 -
Europe still doesn't understand the benefits of active dialogue
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 17:11 -
The Pentagon's strategy on Afghanistan is based on confusion and lack of clarity
The 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 23:30 -
UN resolution on Cuba embargo shows U.S. unpopularity
The 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 17:33 -
Russia's warning about an Asian arms race must be taken seriously
This 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 17:16 -
Blinken's China containment agenda 'shaky' in Europe trip
US 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 17:08 -
Cartel of killers: UK, US and Canada jointly whip up global Xinjiang hysteria, but what about their joint history of systemic genocide, violence and enthnic cleansing?
The 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 15:48 -
G7 came up short on tangible benefits
The 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 23:50 -
Data prove the US is world’s mass-killing machine
The 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 17:10 -
NATO playing perilous game with anti-China declamation
The 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 15:24 -
Euro Quad reflects US intent to set hierarchy within NATO
US 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 19:25 -
Long-expected summit had low expectations
The 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 15:45 -
How to understand NATO designating China as 'systemic challenge'?
Thirty 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 17:09 -
A new Cold War is bad idea for NATO
The 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 20:42 -
Fort Detrick and COVID-19: Why do the Chinese want an investigation?
The 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 09:33 -
More or fewer nukes – that is the question
Increasing 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 09:44 -
U.S. Afghan withdrawal: A legacy of lessons not learned
On 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 09:37 -
To sell frigates to Indonesia, Japan likely to bypass pacifist constitution restrictions
The 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 17:40 -
Game players must be wary of miscalculation
In 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 09:46 -
US likely to boost military presence in Indo-Pacific
The United States has made clear its intention to strengthen its presence in the Indo-Pacific region.
2021-05-17 09:48 -
Peace remains out of reach after US pulls back troops
Withdrawing 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 17:35 -
Eastern Ukraine: Multi-party game leads to uncertain future
Ukraine 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 17:24 -
U.S. troop withdrawal to throw Afghanistan into chaos
As 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 16:32 -
Unmanned Campaign Plan released by US Navy fraught with problems
Despite 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 16:55 -
Wars to continue under Biden
According 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 23:23 -
UK's ambition in Asia-Pacific will hardly make a stir
The 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 17:34 -
US troop withdrawal delay threatens Afghan peace process
US 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 16:45 -
Biden faces tough choices in Afghanistan as troop withdrawal deadline nears
U.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 15:01 -
New UK nuclear warhead plan tarnishes reputation of "Global Britain"
As 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 20:13 -
What's behind France's first-ever space-based military exercise
The 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 16:38