JAKARTA, Indonesia-Despite the extremely negative attitude of the Japanese population towards the American military contingent deployed on the territory of the island state, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a press conference announced the deployment of a new unit of the US Marine Corps in Okinawa Prefecture in the near future.
WASHINGTON, U.S.-While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China’s recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, there are signs that Beijing and Washington are preparing for something so much more serious: armed conflict over Taiwan.
BEIJING, China--US Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting the Philippines, and one of the itineraries has been made an issue of by American public opinion. She plans to go to Palawan on Tuesday, an island province which is close to China's Nansha Islands and is called by the US media "the frontline of the Philippines' territorial dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea."
BEIJING, China--During his Shangri-La Dialogue meeting with China's Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, US Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Lloyd Austin characterized China's internal Taiwan policies and activities as provocative and destabilizing. He did so with full knowledge that a nuclear-armed China is poised to employ any necessary means to prevent the island from seceding from One China.
NAIROBI, Kenya--Western media coverage of the Ukraine conflict has been so hysterically one-sided, and divorced from reality, that it's probably only a matter of time before Iraq's erstwhile 'Comical Ali' is brought out of retirement to insist that there are no Russians advancing towards the Ukrainian army's front lines.
SACRAMENTO, U.S.--The war in Ukraine has lasted a month. Russian President Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated and Xi Jinping followed him into a strategic dead-end with no easy exit.
BEIJING, China--The US, leading several attendants, is launching a round of international mobilization to condemn Russia.
LONDON, UK--India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a $5.4 billion dollar missile defence system sale to India despite warnings from the United States of sanctions.