Japan in urgent search of new strategic balance

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Just right: Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) soldiers position the PAC-3 missile unit. Photo: Reuters/Issei Kato

In the 1970s, Japanese prime minister Masayoshi Ohira designed a concept of “comprehensive security” that stressed the need to broaden your scope of safeguards to non-military fields. The concept built about the ideas shown in the 1969 Nixon Doctrine, where the States encouraged its allies to take “primary responsibility” for their own safeguard. This […]

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Japan becomes global contender in industrial lasers

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More than twenty companies are active in the industry of ultrashort heartbeat (USP) lasers worldwide, according to Laser Concentrate World,. Most of them are usually European and American; a few are through China. Now there is really a new, potentially effective Japanese entrant. Hamamatsu Photonics is using European support in order to expand its laser-related product line and develop […]

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How war in Ukraine resembles past conflict in Yugoslavia

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Dragana Trifković is the general director of the Middle for Geostrategic Research in Belgrade, Serbia. On September eight, a session was held in the UN Security Council on the topic associated with arms delivery to Ukraine by the West. In the introductory area of the session, Trifković spoke about the weapons which were delivered to the […]

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Hong Kong to end hotel quarantine on Sept 26

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Hong Kong will cancel its hotel quarantine rule and negative PCR test requirement before boarding for international travelers from September 26, the government said today in a long-awaited policy shift to revive the city’s sagging status as an international business hub. Hong Kong will adopt a so-called “0+3” arrangement whereby incoming travelers will no longer […]

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Why cyber hackers have such big eyes for Indonesia

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JAKARTA – Indonesian legislators have finally passed the country’s first personal data protection law, but despite being labeled a historic moment, critics already point to worrying loopholes and question whether it will change a bureaucratic culture that largely ignores cybersecurity measures. The passage of the legislation follows a series of digital attacks, including one incident […]

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Spookish report fingers tech-hoovering Chinese scientists

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China is luring back its US-trained and educated talent to work for the Chinese military’s high-tech weapons programs, effectively using US expertise and resources to advance its research in cutting-edge military technology and its applications, a new in-depth private intelligence report claims. Provocatively entitled “The Los Alamos Club”, the Strider Technologies report shows in graphic […]

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The mechanics of recession, inflation

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How do they actually it?   Experts speak metaphorically when they say, as I furthermore sometimes do, present problems with recession/inflation (r/i) are due to governments’ policy of printing too much money. As well, when they discuss the “cure. ” they blithely speak about raising the eye rate, as if this kind of action is equivalent to turning down some […]

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