Is The Quad Dying, Or Being Recast As Washington’s Proxy Against China? By Uriel Araujo Trump’s America First retrenchment hollows out the Quad, empowering overlapping Indo-Pacific networks while trade spats irk allies like India. Yet the relentless US push against China,… Read More ›
Missiles Over The Pacific: How U.S. Overreach Is Fuelling A Regional Arms Spiral By Uriel Araujo The Indo-Pacific is witnessing a sharp rise in missile deployments driven by an aggressive US approach involving the Philippines, Japan, Australia, and allies. This coordinated… Read More ›
Australia And Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About The De Facto Asian NATO By Andrew Korybko Playing any role in a Sino-US war over Taiwan, even a logistical one, could provoke Chinese retaliation. The Financial Times reported that US Under Secretary… Read More ›
Australia’s Latest Temporary Military Deployment To Europe Is Connected To Containing China By Andrew Korybko The emerging “Global West” concept isn’t just a “collection of democracies” like it’s been portrayed by some, but a collection of US military partners that can… Read More ›
China’s Shipbuilding Might: Over 200 Times The U.S. Capacity By Uriel Araujo The unipolar world is vanishing: China’s naval dominance, with shipbuilding capacity over 200 times greater than the US, reflects US industrial decline. Beijing’s industrial might and dual-use shipyards challenge… Read More ›
Trump’s Tariffs: The Catalyst For A Multipolar Economic Revolution By Uriel Araujo Tariff escalation policy, intended to bolster American industry, is instead hastening the decline of American economic dominance. By pushing nations like China, Japan, and South Korea to band together,… Read More ›
Will India Join The Asian “Squad”? By Andrew Korybko India must nowadays walk a fine line between China and the “Squad” in the context of Trump prioritizing the US’ “Pivot (back) to Asia” due to all that this grand strategic reorientation… Read More ›
Philippines’ Aggressive Territorial Claims In South China Sea: A New Threat to Regional Stability By Uriel Araujo Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed a new Navy chief (Rear Admiral Jose Ma. Ambrosio Ezpeleta) amid tensions in the South China Sea, which include a… Read More ›
What Was A Japanese Spy Doing In Belarus? By Andrew Korybko Japan was passing everything along to its Western partners in the implied hopes of them then supporting it more in its own part of the world. Belarusian media reported earlier… Read More ›
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 ›