Japan 2040: A stark appraisal
Japan boasts the third largest economy in the world, is the most powerful American ally in Asia and geographically its...
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Japan’s Defense White Paper: Talking tough for a change
Japan’s annual Defense White Paper normally gets a few days of attention and then fades away. Any changes from the...
Why America needs broader missile defense capabilities
China and Russia have made great strides in developing hypersonic missiles that could deliver nuclear payloads and evade current missile...
Grant Newsham: Japan is waking up to the military threat of Communist China; how the US can follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJnk55MXhg U.S. Marine Colonel Grant Newsham is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and a Research Fellow...
More than half of Americans believe China influences American politics and decision-making
More than half of Americans believe China’s influence network has “great” or “moderate” influence over American politics and decision-making, according...
Australia, Philippines lead against Chinese maritime aggression
In the past month, two of America’s treaty allies in the Indo-Pacific have demonstrated, that regardless of a nation or navy’s size,...
The reason why China threatens to “nuke Japan continuously”
In perhaps the most reckless threat ever made, China has threatened to "nuke Japan continuously" if Japan supports the US...
US lacks credible response to Chinese hacking
A new report by the US National Security Agency (NSA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Heavily armed hydrofoils needed against China and Iran
Fighting China’s naval superiority in the South China Sea requires a rethinking of naval warfare from the perspective of a...
China’s one-two punch
In boxing there’s something called a one-two punch. You might deflect or evade the “one” but if you forget about...
China unveils its first national passenger aircraft—Rivaling Airbus and Boeing
Imagine stepping onto a Chinese-made airplane with outdated movies, scripted English from flight attendants, and corn chowder on the in-flight...
Gertz: China begins military flights from disputed South China Sea bases
China’s military recently deployed electronic warning and surveillance aircraft and helicopters on two disputed islands in the South China Sea...
The Great Illusion: The ‘nuclear balance’
Generations of U.S. and allied policymakers, strategists, academics, and the general public have been conditioned by arms control theory, which...
Poll: Almost two-thirds of Americans believe China should pay pandemic reparations
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that the Chinese regime should pay reparations for the destruction caused by the human coronavirus...
US keeps funding its main foe PRC
Alexandria, Virginia, US: In this edition of “Indo-Pacific: Behind the Headlines” we speak with Col Grant Newsham (Retd). Col Newsham has...
What is China doing?
On May 26, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that he had asked the U.S. intelligence community to redouble its efforts...