The Chinese Foreign Ministry released a position paper on the country’s relations with the ten Pacific Island Countries (PICs) that have diplomatic relations with Beijing. It comes as Foreign Minister Wang Yi wraps up his regional sojourn that saw him interacting with many of his counterparts and their other representatives. His trip was decried by American, Australian, and other Western media as supposedly signaling some sort of imperialist intentions on China’s part, yet the position paper debunks all of that.
China’s Pacific Islands Position Paper Debunks Fake News Claims
Tag: Asia Pacific
Why Asia Pacific Chose China (You Won’t Believe What America Did)
Indo-Pacific power dynamic in radical shift
The joint air patrol over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea on Monday by an air task force composed of Russian Tu-95MS capable of carrying nuclear weapons and Chinese H-6K strategic bombers couldn’t have been a knee-jerk reaction to US President Joe Biden’s Asia tour, leave alone his provocative remarks conjuring up an apocalyptic US-China war over Taiwan.
Indo-Pacific power dynamic in radical shift
China Says NATO Expansion Has ‘Sowed the Seeds of Conflict’
Saturday is [was] the anniversary of the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
China Says NATO Expansion Has ‘Sowed the Seeds of Conflict’
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With Us or With Them? In a New Cold War, How About Neither.
Old geopolitical foes are facing off after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but much of the world is refusing to take sides.
With Us or With Them? In a New Cold War, How About Neither.
The US Military is Driving Environmental Collapse Across the Planet
The U.S. military emits more carbon than 140 countries combined, fueling climate change and environmental degradation. Below we examine five ways in which the Pentagon is destroying the environment.
The US Military is Driving Environmental Collapse Across the Planet
No sooner appointed than new Georgian FM summoned to NATO HQ
Georgian FM to hold meetings at EU, NATO on April 6-8
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Ilia Darchiashvili, will visit the EU and NATO headquarters on April 6-8, Trend reports citing 1tv.ge.
No sooner appointed than new Georgian FM summoned to NATO HQ
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Ukraine war, NATO Foreign Ministers meeting kicks off:
[Jens Stoltenberg] added:“We need to support Ukraine, sustain our sanctions, and strengthen our defences and our deterrence”.
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In the Strategic Concept we need to address the security consequences of Russia’s aggressive actions, of the shifting global balance of power, the security consequences of a much stronger China, and the challenges Russia and China are posing together to our rules based international order and our democratic values.
But of course also in the Strategic Concept, we will sort out the strategy for how to deal with cyber, hybrid, terrorism, and also the security consequences of climate change. So I’m looking forward to the meeting and it will be, an important meeting. Not least facing the grim reality in Ukraine. And with that, I’m ready to take your questions. He said.
The Focus On Russia Distracts From What The US Government Is Doing
Ukraine crisis is part of new cold war on Russia (and China)
Korea Heads Toward a Political Crossroads
By Gregory Elich | CounterPunch |February 8, 2022
South Koreans go to the polls on March 9 to elect a new president, who will assume office two months later. At a time when U.S.-North Korean relations are at an impasse, and the Biden administration is building an aggressive anti-China alliance, much may rest on the outcome.
Korea Heads Toward a Political Crossroads
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