East Asia

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The West Got Its Nose Wiped

What the foreign media wrote about the SCO summit A week after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, the world media, which closely followed the event, continue to discuss it. The general message of the publications is that the era of US global leadership has come to an […]

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New Technology May Confirm FORDOW Destruction

A new study using advanced sensing technology has taken a fresh look at the damaged Iranian nuclear site, Fordow. It is not the first time that satellite technology has revealed important strategic security information. Landsat The Landsat system was launched in July, 1972, initially called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. […]

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The Establishment Of Armenian-Pakistani Diplomatic Ties Is Part Of A Larger Powerplay

It’s about turbocharging the emerging Turkish-Azeri-Pak bloc by giving Islamabad access to TRIPP for facilitating trade with Turkiye and Europe in order to consolidate this bloc’s sway across Central Asia. The Armenian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers signed a joint communique on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Tianjin establishing diplomatic ties. […]

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The Power Of Siberia 2 Pipeline Deal Signifies The Failure Of Trump’s Eurasian Grand Strategy

Trump’s escalatory signals in Ukraine, the Indo-US split that he induced, and the attendant alleviation of the Sino-Indo security dilemma freed Russia up to clinch the long-negotiated Power of Siberia 2 deal. Trump’s Eurasian grand strategy has sought to preemptively avert Russia’s potentially disproportionate dependence on China in order to […]

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What The SCO Summit In China Really Revealed

The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China has become one of the most significant political events of the year. For the West, which is trying to preserve its dominance in the global system, the summit sent a clear signal: the countries of the Global South are ready to […]

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Nuclear Snobbery And Atomic Anniversaries

How do we commemorate it?  The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history.  Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted […]

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Japan 1945: The Myth Of Atomic Surrender

The debate over the reasons for Japan’s surrender persists, especially during the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The central question is what was decisive: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Soviet Union’s entry into the war in the Far East. The controversy extends […]

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The SCO Finally Condemned The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack

The recent Sino-Indo rapprochement, which was inadvertently brought about by the US, accounts for why this year’s Chinese host agreed to include this in the Tianjin Declaration unlike how it was conspicuously omitted from late June’s SCO Defense Ministers’ draft statement. The Tianjin Declaration that emerged from this year’s SCO […]