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IndoPaCom: Control of Asia and Oceania

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Sino-British competition in Asia-Pacific

29 September 2021

The United Kingdom has initiated negotiations with a view to entering the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
This treaty came out of the Asia-Pacific Regional Economic Forum (APEC). After having joined, the United States withdrew soon after Donald (...)

The AUKUS preparing a nuclear war to sustain Taiwan

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 23 September 2021

The official reactions to the announcement of the Australian-British-US pact (AUKUS) are only about the termination of the Australian-French arms contract. As terrible as this is for the shipyards, it is only a collateral consequence of a reversal of alliances aimed at preparing for a war (...)

«The Art of War»

Joe Biden nuclear sorcerer’s apprentice

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 21 September 2021

President Biden announced the birth of the AUKUS, a strategic-military partnership between the United States, Great Britain and Australia, with “the imperative of ensuring long-term peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific", the region that in Washington’s geopolitics extends from the west coast (...)

Biden, Morrison & Johnson Announcing the Creation of AUKUS

by Boris Johnson, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Scott Morrison

15 September 2021

PRIME MINISTER MORRISON: Well, good morning from Australia. I’m very pleased to join two great friends of freedom and of Australia: Prime Minister Johnson and President Biden.
Today, we join our nations in a next-generation partnership built on a strong foundation of proven trust.
We have (...)

Scott Morrison Statement on AUKUS

by Scott Morrison

15 September 2021

Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have agreed to the creation of an enhanced trilateral security partnership – AUKUS.
The security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region have grown significantly. Military modernisation is occurring at an unprecedented rate and capabilities are (...)

Boris Johnson Statement on AUKUS

by Boris Johnson

15 September 2021

I’m delighted to join President Biden and Prime Minister Morrison to announce that the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States are creating a new trilateral defence partnership, known as AUKUS, with the aim of working hand-in-glove to preserve security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. (...)

India sides with Quad countries against China

11 September 2021

In a speech delivered on 6 September 2021 at the Australian National University, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar pronounced himself in favor of accelerating the US-driven project of an alliance against China, dubbed Quad [Video].
Hitherto noncommittal, India’s turnabout is in (...)

Japan to side with Taiwan over China

8 July 2021

During a debate in the Upper House, on 5 July 2021, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso was quoted as saying: "If a major incident occurs in Taiwan, it’s not at all unusual to consider it an existential threat [to Japan]," "In such a case, Japan and the United States will have to work (...)

How should the Pentagon target China?

11 June 2021

A heated debate is taking place at the Pentagon between two visions of the role to be assigned to US forces vis-à-vis China. Should they be remotely positioned and be exposed only to missiles, or sit nearby and risk being attacked by enemy soldiers?
The two options involve very different troop (...)

Biden administration reactivates the Quad

10 June 2021

Within the framework of the DoD China Task Force, the United States made overtures to the other members of the “Quad” (Australia, India, Japan, USA).
The reported purpose of the initiative was to reactivate this structure in order to convert it into a military alliance for the defense of (...)

Pentagon given order to abandon Middle East and focus on Far East

10 June 2021

The Department of Defense’s China Task Force has handed in its report. Although classified, it can be easily deduced that it condemns the gap between declarations and actions.
The creation of this working group was announced in February, just hours before a telephone conversation between (...)

Australia-Japan military pact

20 November 2020

Australia and Japan have sealed a Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) involving their respective armies [1].
It was negotiated as part of a future global NATO [2], notwithstanding the Trump administration’s disapproval and the Pentagon’s efforts of getting the Quad (military agreement between (...)

Japan-Australia Joint Statement

17 November 2020

1.The Prime Ministers of Japan and Australia reaffirmed that the Special Strategic Partnership between the two countries is based on shared values, including a commitment to democracy, human rights, free trade and a rules-based order; shared strategic interests in the security, stability (...)

NATO Wants to Become the Atlantic-Pacific Alliance

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 12 December 2019

No one stops the Pentagon. While the military deployment project around China mentioned by Hillary Clinton in 2011 had officially been abandoned, NATO had just had it endorsed by the London Summit. The process has been launched and is expected to start with Australia’s accession in (...)

US PaCom is now the US IndoPaCom

11 June 2018

During a ceremony at Pearl Harbour, on 30 May 2018, the US Defense Secretary, James Mattis, announced that the US PaCom (literally the US Command in the Pacific) was to become the US IndoPaCom.
The General did not seek to clarify the reasons for this change. All he said was that the area that (...)

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