China’s new hypersonic missile-capable submarine challenges US in Philippines: Report
According to the report, the new submarine is capable of carrying advanced hypersonic missiles, allowing for covert strikes beyond enemy defenses and the option to deploy nuclear warheads if needed. Working with other military forces, it will help deter enemy carrier groups and bases within the first island chain.
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Despite the temporary window of false hope some perceived the recent US presidential election as, US foreign policy has once again continued onward toward the pursuit of primacy.
Previously:
US Greenland-Panama Ambitions Aimed at War with Russia-China
China continues to strengthen its military capabilities, combining rapid growth in conventional power with readiness to counter U.S. asymmetrical strategies.
Chinese Military Might vs Washington’s Asymmetrical Tools of Empire (archived)
Previously:
US proxy groups capture Rakhine State in Myanmar
US Greenland-Panama Ambitions Aimed at War with Russia-China
Hot spots where war may break out or escalate in 2025: Balochistan
Sources (asterisks denote added sources):
Read More »Report to Congress on Navy Large Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles
Read More »The Navy wants to use XLUUVs to, among other things, covertly deploy the Hammerhead mine, a planned mine that would be tethered to the seabed and armed with an antisubmarine torpedo, broadly similar to the Navy’s Cold War-era CAPTOR (encapsulated torpedo) mine.
It may be no surprise that the “mainstream” corporate news media have turned into advertising agencies for US government policy. But it still surprises that what the CIA called a compatible left – those on the left it deemed compatible with maintaining imperialist rule – celebrates another US successful “regime change,” this time, Syria.
Compatible Left Joins Imperialism in Celebrating Defeat of Syria
What’s Really Going On In the South China Sea Between the Philippines and China
by Tina Antonis
Maritime clashes between the Philippines and China had been mostly over the Philippines’ military outpost, BRP (BRP—Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas, which translates to “Ship of the Republic of the Philippines”—the ship prefix for the Philippines) Sierra Madre, in the Spratly Islands, which is disputed by Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (a province of China, as recognized by the United Nations’ Resolution No. 2758), and Vietnam. The BRP Sierra Madre was intentionally run aground on a reef near the Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands, in 1997, so that the Philippines could stake their territorial claim.
Read More »The Venezuelan Public Ministry announced the initiation of a criminal investigating against María Corina Machado “for her promotion and support of the recent criminal act of the United States House of Representatives that approved the BOLIVAR Act. This imperialist legislation seeks to amplify the illegal sanctions against the Venezuelan people.”
Related:
Venezuela Denounces ‘Offensive’ BOLIVAR Act and US Recognition of González as ‘President-Elect’
Read it at Antiwar.com or here with graphics. FYI, the “Ant” in Antonis is pronounced as 🐜.
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