Tag: War

‘War may be triggered at any time’: China fires off ominous warning as it sends record warplanes towards Taiwan

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Meanwhile, Taiwan’s defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng has expressed concern, saying that Beijing might mount a ‘full-scale’ invasion by 2025 Two Chinese SU-30 fighter jets take off from an unspecified location to fly a patrol over the South China Sea. China has sent in a record number of military flights near Taiwan since last Friday. AP “War may be triggered at any time”. That’s the ominous warning from China after it sent a record number of aircraft across the Taiwan Straits over the past few days. In its editorial ‘Time to warn Taiwan secessionists…

‘War may be triggered at any time’: China warns as it sends record number of warplanes towards Taiwan

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Meanwhile, Taiwan’s defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng has expressed concern, saying that Beijing might mount a ‘full-scale’ invasion by 2025 Two Chinese SU-30 fighter jets take off from an unspecified location to fly a patrol over the South China Sea. China has sent in a record number of military flights near Taiwan since last Friday. AP “War may be triggered at any time”. That’s the ominous warning from China after it sent a record number of aircraft across the Taiwan Straits over the past few days. In its editorial ‘Time to warn Taiwan secessionists…

The 9/11 Effect and the Transformation of Global Security

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The New World of Surveillance The 9/11 attacks fundamentally reshaped the U.S. intelligence community and those of many of its close allies. In the words of a former CIA station chief, the CIA underwent a massive transformation—from gathering to hunting. This new mission supported an emphasis on kinetic counterterrorism, enshrined in the 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy, with its determination to “disrupt and destroy terrorist organizations of global reach.” The global war on terror required a shift in surveillance targets from traditional state threats and their militaries to much more…

Why China’s rise is a ‘wildcard’ for how things could play out in Afghanistan

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While several countries are evacuating their embassies in Kabul and scrambling to get their citizens out of Afghanistan, there are three notable exceptions.  Australia closed its embassy back in May, but China, Russia and Pakistan are staying put for now. Afghanistan has geographical significance, positioned as a bridge between Asia and Europe, and all three countries have an interest in regional stability and want to avoid the country becoming a hotbed of extremism. Afghanistan is also sitting on to $US1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) worth of mineral deposits, including rare earths and…

The Legacy Of Failure In Afghanistan Starts In 1979, Not 2001- OpEd

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A decade ago, John Lamberton Harper, a professor of US Foreign Policy and European Studies at Johns Hopkins in Bologna, Italy published an indispensable history of the first cold war (The Cold War, Oxford University Press, 2011) in which he described the origins of what became known as “the Carter doctrine.” The Carter Doctrine pledged US military action against any state that attempted to gain control of the Persian Gulf. As Quincy Institute president Andrew Bacevich has pointed out it “implied the conversion of the Persian Gulf into an informal…

Why the next major war is likely to start in Taiwan

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If the United States and China get into a shooting war, there is a good chance it would start in Taiwan, which the Chinese communists view as a renegade province. It’s no secret that China has long wanted to conquer the island nation, where nationalist forces retreated in 1949 after losing to the communists in China’s civil war. The U.S government provides Taiwan with military equipment, much to China’s chagrin. After the State Department announced on Aug. 4 that the U.S. government is selling Taiwan $750 million worth of weapons,…