The major beneficiary in the Obama administration's decision to "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific region, contrary to Washington officials, is not the American people and their security. Rather, it is the military industrial complex. The Aerospace Industries Association...
US’s China Containment Policy Breeding Resentment | The geo-political chess game in Asia-Pacific could develop into a new cold war
Japan Warns of Instability in China Territorial Dispute | The US is at the forefront of instability in Asia-Pacific
A dispute over a chain of islands in Asia between China and Japan has been heating up and may even lead to war, but the backdrop of the conflict is really between the United States and China. "There is a danger of China and Japan having a military conflict," Yan...
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on a recent trip to China tried to downplay America's militarism in Asia-Pacific and convince the Chinese that it is not an attempt to contain China's rise. "Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is not an attempt to contain China....
Around 1,000 fishing boats have been mobilized by China to lay claim to a disputed island chain now controlled by Japan, in one squabble among several over territorial claims in Asia-Pacific. Japan announced last week that it had bought a portion of the archipelago...
Tensions between various Asian countries have been on the rise over territorial disputes and Washington keeps sticking its nose in where it doesn't belong in an attempt to undercut its global competitor, China. Late last year, President Obama announced a strategic...
The Pentagon will begin flying surveillance drones off the coastlines of Japan, China and Taiwan, an agreement reached after talks between Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto at the Pentagon on Sunday. The unmanned aerial...
The Pentagon is drawing up new plans to prepare for an air and sea war in Asia, presumably against China, in the Obama administration's most belligerent manifestation yet of the so-called pivot to Asia-Pacific. Fighting counterinsurgency campaigns and building up...
China's official Xinhua news agency on Saturday accused the Obama administration of "meddling" in the Asia-Pacific and specifically the South China Sea territorial disputes. "Though wary of overtly irking China," Xinhua reported, the Obama administration has "further...
