Nancy Pelosi came and left. Some in Taiwan called her visit a part of her graduation trip. A tad condescending, perhaps, but they meant it was her last hurrah. After the forthcoming midterm election in the US, her Democratic Party is expected to lose control of the House of Representatives and she will no longer […]
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China’s homemade FH-95 electronic warfare plus armed reconnaissance drone recently passed a milestone performance test, providing a new dimension to the nation’s electronic warfare capabilities, according to the Communist Party-run Worldwide Times. Citing the Beijing-based mag Unmanned Vehicles, the Global Times report declared that the FH-95, produced by Aerospace Times Feihong Technology Corporation (ATFTC) under […]
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China’s “project of the century” is undergoing several profound changes. Just one decade ago, Chinese language President Xi Jinping unveiled the Belt and Road Effort (BRI) to connect China to Eurasia by means of extensive maritime and overland trade ways. Despite the grand unsupported claims of the BRI literally linking the global economic climate to Beijing, the initiative’s aims […]
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MANILA ~ Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr formally opened a new page in his family’s longstanding and often fraught relations with the US when he warmly welcomed ALL OF US Secretary of Point out Antony Blinken into the Malacañang Palace over the weekend. The meeting occured in the same entrée that the Marcoses fled 36 years early on […]
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US-China relations are now the worst since then-president Richard Nixon opened modern relations in 1972. At the June Shangri-La Dialogue, Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe warned US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, “If you want confrontation, we will fight to the very end.” The visit to Taiwan last week by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, […]
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If there is one thing clear as war breaks out in southern Israel and the Gaza strip, it is that Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system works and works in spectacular fashion. Faced with the launch of over 70 missiles, many of them simultaneously, the Iron Dome interceptors picked them off quickly, one by one. Iron Dome […]
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The recent killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by CIA drone strike was the latest US response to 9/11. Politically, it amplified existing distrust between US leaders and the Taliban government in Afghanistan. The killing also exposed compromises in the 2020 Doha peace agreement between the US and the Taliban. But another story is emerging […]
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. As countries around the globe add armed drones to their arsenals, federal lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to investigate how US parts and technology ended up in what has fast become one of the most popular models on the world market: Turkey’s TB2. Manufactured by the Turkish […]
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To many Americans who view Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an unprovoked war that must be opposed, Indonesia’s high levels of public support for Russia may be perplexing. But divergent US and Indonesian views should not come as a surprise. The United States and Indonesia tend to perceive international events — and one another — […]
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Having declared victory over the “economic blitzkrieg” of Western sanctions in March, Russian President Vladimir Putin must contend with continued Western financial support to Ukraine as it combats Russian forces. In addition, the Kremlin will be forced to finance the reconstruction and integration of conquered Ukrainian territory. With costs mounting, Putin has increasingly promoted the […]
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