South Korea Will Remain A Key Part Of The US’ Chinese Containment Plans By Andrew Korybko The Sino-Russo Entente might evolve into a de facto alliance if South Korea and Japan join AUKUS+, the US’ de facto “Asian NATO”, but that… Read More ›
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Three Details That Most Observers Missed From SIPRI’s Latest International Arms Trends Report
Three Details That Most Observers Missed From SIPRI’s Latest International Arms Trends Report By Andrew Korybko What these three trends have in common is their adverse impact on Russian national security. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which is regarded… Read More ›
Sacrificing Seoul For Tel Aviv: The Global Geopolitical Ripple Effects Of The Iran War
Sacrificing Seoul For Tel Aviv: The Global Geopolitical Ripple Effects Of The Iran War By Uriel Araujo The redeployment of THAAD defences from South Korea to the Middle East reflects the widening geopolitical shockwaves of the Iran conflict. While Seoul diplomatically… Read More ›
AUKUS+? Seoul’s Nuclear Submarine Gamble And The Future Of Asian Geopolitics
AUKUS+? Seoul’s Nuclear Submarine Gamble And The Future Of Asian Geopolitics By Uriel Araujo South Korea’s long pursuit of nuclear-powered submarines now coincides with Washington’s shifting alliance strategy. Analysts see an emerging AUKUS+ system as Seoul ramps up spending and regional… Read More ›
China’s Shipbuilding Might: Over 200 Times The U.S. Capacity
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
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 ›
Did the US Have a Hand in South Korea’s Attempted Coup?
Did The US Have A Hand In South Korea’s Attempted Coup? By Uriel Araujo South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in South Korea against alleged “pro-North Korean anti-state forces”, in what is being described as an attempt to… Read More ›
Exposing The Hypocrisy Of South Korea’s Response To Rumours Of The North Fighting Ukraine
Exposing The Hypocrisy Of South Korea’s Response To Rumours Of The North Fighting Ukraine By Andrew Korybko It’s surprising that South Korea prefers for there to be more North Korean troops along the DMZ to fight against in the event that… Read More ›
The Japanese-Philippine Military Logistics Pact Raises The Risk Of War With China
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 ›
Fake News Alert: It’s Unlikely That North Korea Will Soon Send Engineers To Donbass
Fake News Alert: It’s Unlikely That North Korea Will Soon Send Engineers To Donbass By Andrew Korybko South Korea wanted to fearmonger about North Korea after its (technically revived) mutual defence pact with Russia, possibly to justify a preplanned decision to… Read More ›