Reset to Reroute: Should Russia rethink Western relations? “In the first years of Perestroika, Russia was definitely Western-oriented; Gorbachev had been speaking about a ‘common European home,’ while Yeltsin actually applied for NATO…
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Last summer the Pentagon announced its plans to create an advanced missile defense system in the Asian-Pacific region. In the next few years a chain of modern missile defense radars can be deployed from the North of Japan through its Southern islands to the Philippines. Together with the missile systems and the ships the radars will form a joint system that allows intercepting ballistic missiles. “Without acknowledging it, the system is targeted against China. And practically nobody doubts that…[T]he USA is not prepared to acknowledge China as an equal partner and not ready to have a mutual nuclear deterrence or strategic partnership with China…” Leon Panetta, the head of the Pentagon, announced that Japan and the US signed an agreement to deploy the second element of the American missile defense system on Japanese territory. Washington and Tokyo assured China that the missile defense system was not targeted against it. However, experts are convinced that Beijing will view with caution these steps towards deploying a new missile defense element.
The Research Came From My Old Geocities Page Here it is: http://web.archive.org/web/20010517195455/www.geocities.com/tokyo/4381/ posted by bobby fletcher Evidence Of Private Ownership Of Diaoyutai Before Japan’s Claim Qing Dyn. official record in 1893 showed Empress CiXi had…
US Diplomacy and America’s “Enablers of Terror” “Indeed, I asked myself, how could this happen, how could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction.” – Hilary Clinton, US Secretary…
Associated Press/Ng Han Guan – Chinese protesters kick the barricades during an anti-Japan protest outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Tensions between the two countries flared A total of six…
Six Chinese ships entered Japanese waters near a group of disputed islets claimed by both Beijing and Tokyo early on Friday, ignoring the Japanese coast guard’s orders to vacate its territorial waters. The first two…
Two Chinese patrol ships have been dispatched to a group of disputed islands following Tokyo’s announcement that it would purchase the isles from private owners. Beijing has vowed “reciprocal measures” should the situation escalate. Two…
It’s pop-quiz time when it comes to the American way of war: three questions, torn from the latest news, just for you. Here’s the first of them, and good luck! Two weeks ago, 200 U.S….
BEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) — China reiterated its stance on the Diaoyu Islands in a meeting with a senior Japanese diplomat on Wednesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Luo Zhaohui, director-general of the Chinese…
So it’s very common to see this moronic rhetorical question used against anyone that is criticizing aspects of the US or supporting aspects of China. It’s really just the “love it or leave it” trope…