Japan

America and her allies must understand that the War in Ukraine has never been just about Ukraine

As military spending spirals, should Tokyo consider channeling the free-market spirit of the 1980s?

In Japan, even the dead get a say in how the nation’s war-machine should be run by the living.

A Critical Review of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge Colby, Yale University Press, 2021. 

The United States are not prepared for a cold war with China over Taiwan, yet to avoid it, America needs to start acting as if they were already upon them, and learn from the last one.

The fact that President Joe Biden chose South Korea as the first stop of his first Asian tour since his inauguration is significant. Washington and Seoul are seeking to upgrade their military alliance into a “comprehensive global strategic alliance.”

The struggle for that free and decent world never ends this side of the parousia.

Much of the world is now awakened to the PRC’s ambitions and keenly aware of its claws. America and its partners are coming to the stark realization that a renewed commitment to deterrence is the only way to ensure the twenty-first century isn’t made in the PRC.

A recent US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) report gives examples of China’s transgressions.