East Asia

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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 […]

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The End Of The WTO?

There are signs of the downfall of the old system of international economic relations. After Donald Trump’s inauguration as 47th president of the United States in January 2025, rumors began to spread about a possible US withdrawal from the World Trade Organization (WTO). This happened amid the refusal of the […]

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What Australia Should Do With US Submarines

The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was.  Announced in September 2021, ruinous to Franco-Australian relations, and Anglospheric in inclination, the agreement between Washington, London and Canberra would project US power in the Indo-Pacific with one purpose in mind: […]

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The End Of Superpowers: Toward An Islanded World Order

For decades, global politics has been understood through the prism of hegemony. The Cold War offered a bipolar struggle, while the post–1991 era witnessed the rise of American unipolarity, proclaimed as the “end of history.” Today, however, the world is entering an entirely different phase: not the replacement of one […]