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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 .
It was negotiated as part of a future global NATO , 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 (...)

Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula

by Kim Jong Un, Moon Jae-in

27 April 2018

During this momentous period of historical transformation on the Korean Peninsula, reflecting the enduring aspiration of the Korean people for peace, prosperity and unification, President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea and Chairman Kim Jong-un of the State Affairs Commission of the (...)

India’s setting up a military base in the Seychelles

2 March 2018

Last month (January), India signed a contract with the Seychelles to install a military base on this archipelago. This was in the context of an Indian initiative, Security and Growth for All in the Region — SAGAR.
Narendra Modi’s government intends to deploy its army in the Indian Ocean after (...)

The US Administration Divided over the Prospect of Nuclear Annihilation of Korea

by Dimitri Konstantakopoulos

Athens (Greece) | 10 October 2017

This article by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos brings together some highly significant information on the North Korean crisis. The author interprets this data in light of his a priori position, favourable to President Obama and hostile to his successor Trump. While we do not share his analysis of (...)

Washington and London: exit plan for Afghanistan? Never!

7 October 2017

On 3 October at the Senate’s Armed Forces Committee Hearing, Generals James Mattis (Defense Secretary) and Joseph Dunford (Chief of Staff of the Joint Armed Forces) have declared that the US armies would stay indefinitely in Afghanistan so that the Taliban could never hope to return to power (...)

Daesh seems to be migrating to South East Asia

7 October 2017

According to Kairat Umarov, Chair of the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Committee and Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan, Daesh is in the processing of moving its funds and its men to South East Asia .
Currently, the political situation in Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia is very (...)

The Pentagon is preparing a new war in South-East Asia

Political Islam against China

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 3 October 2017

You are probably aware that you are incompletely informed about what is brewing in Myanmar, and you probably haven’t heard about the military coalition that is preparing to attack that country. And yet, as Thierry Meyssan reveals here, these current events have been in preparation by Riyadh and (...)

China’s Policies on Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation

Beijing (China) | 11 January 2017

Preface
The Asia-Pacific region covers a vast area with numerous countries and 60 percent of the world’s population. Its economic and trade volumes take up nearly 60 percent and half of the world’s total, respectively. It has an important strategic position in the world. In recent years, the (...)

Chair’s Statement of the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting

16 July 2016

11th ASEM Summit
“20 Years of ASEM: Partnership for the Future through Connectivity”
1. The 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM11) was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 15- 16 July 2016 under the theme “20 Years of ASEM: Partnership for the Future through Connectivity”. It was attended by the Heads of (...)

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