Japan And The Philippines Aim To Provoke A New Asian Arms Race At America’s Behest By Andrew Korybko Arms races are always a bonanza for the military-industrial complex, which exerts outsized influence over US policymaking, but there might be more to… Read More ›
NATO Wants Permanent Footprints In The Indo-Pacific, With Talks About Opening Office In Japan By Uriel Araujo Today one can see an increasingly divided NATO, which does not possess a clear view on the challenges of dual containment. With Ukraine’s fatigue… Read More ›
The Japanese-Philippine Military Logistics Pact Raises The Risk Of War With China By Andrew Korybko The US is forming two Asian trilaterals with itself and Japan that are centred on the Philippines in Southeast Asia and South Korea in Northeast Asia…. Read More ›
The Pros And Cons Of China Possibly Using The Tumen River To Access The Sea Of Japan By Andrew Korybko Even the purely commercial use of this waterway without any Coast Guard component could fuel US-encouraged Japanese and South Korean perceptions… Read More ›
The US Is Tightening Its Containment Noose Around China In The First Island Chain By Andrew Korybko The latest military moves prove that America is preparing to “Pivot (back) to Asia” once the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine inevitably ends, which… Read More ›
The US Is Testing China’s Patience By Deploying Special Forces Just Six Miles From The Mainland By Andrew Korybko They’re functioning as tripwires for curtailing China’s freedom of military action in any forthcoming cross-strait crisis and directly involving the US if… Read More ›
A Ukrainian Model’s Crowning As “Miss Japan” Shows The Spread Of Liberal-Globalism In Asia By Andrew Korybko From the perspective of Japan’s historically conservative-nationalist society, ethnic ancestry – not citizenship, language, or culture – is the crucial prerequisite for truly being… Read More ›
The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing By Andrew Korybko Russia and North Korea’s complementary balancing acts at the global and national levels vis-a-vis China coupled with China’s reluctance to burn all bridges with the West as… Read More ›
Russia’s Top Security Official Warned About The Emergence Of A New Quad By Andrew Korybko The Kremlin saw that the US abandoned the scenario of provoking a Sino-Indo border war in favour of attempting to provoke a Sino-Filipino one instead, which… Read More ›
Japan’s Participation In This Week’s Reported South China Sea Drills Sends Five Messages By Andrew Korybko Japan’s new military role in the Asia-Pacific is unprecedented in the post-war period, but it’s approved by America so as to prepare its “unsinkable aircraft… Read More ›
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