CHINA PERSISTENTLY PURSUES HEGEMONY IN SOUTH PACIFIC
On September 16 the Solomon Islands, one of the 14 small island nations in the southern Pacific, severed relations with Taiwan. Resorting to a notorious “money offensive,” Beijing has thus far en…
ATTACK ON SAUDI’S OIL INSTALLATIONS SIGNALS DRAMATIC CHANGES IN FUTURE WARS
Ducking a multi-million-dollar US Patriot air defense system, ten small drones worth at the most several tens of thousands of U.S. dollars caused catastrophic damage to two major Saudi oil instal…
BOLTON’S RESIGNATION DOESN’T BODE WELL FOR JAPAN
On September 10, John Bolton abruptly resigned as White House national security adviser. Bolton, who was adamantly opposed to making a half-baked denuclearization deal with North Korea, stood fir…
TAIWAN YOUTH FIGHT AGAINST TSAI’S “ZERO NUCLEAR” POLICY
Young people are fighting for what they feel is right in both Hong Kong and Taiwan. In both cases they are battling the threat of the Chinese Communist Party while at the same time trying to rall…
NHK’S CHRONIC MISINTERPRETATION OF JAPAN’S WAR HISTORY
Japanese public broadcaster NHK airs special television features about Japan’s last war every summer. But in more than a few of these features—for instance, “Japan Debut” (aired April-June, 2009)…
