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PerryScope By Perry Diaz With China moving closer to total control of the South China Sea, the other five claimant countries are getting nervous… very nervous. Indeed, China’s neighbors are so nervous that they’re arming themselves in an attempt to stop China’s aggressive advances into their territories. But at the rate China is building her naval forces and deploying them to the South China Sea Read More …
Source: Patriots Billboard Interesting How So Many Countries Are Increasing Their Military From Russia. Like So Many Things Going On Around The World Of Politics, “Follow The Money” Is Usually What It’s About. Vietnam is to take delivery of two Russian diesel-electric submarines this year, complicating an evolving military dynamic in the South China Sea. The new subs represent both an effort by Vietnam to Read More …
Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall Written by AP CHELYABINSK, Russia. — As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled pocket of Russia. One of the most popular jests: Residents of the meteor were terrified to see Chelyabinsk approaching. The fireball Read More …
SOURCE: LIGNET Summary With few warm weather ports, Russia has never been able to match the naval power of maritime giants like Britain and the United States over the last two centuries. Its latest deployment of ships to the Gulf of Aden to conduct anti-piracy operations is a sign, however, that its naval aspirations are growing. A deployment to the Gulf of Aden is the Read More …
SOURCE: LIGNET Summary As the NATO-led International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, Western influence in Central Asia is on the verge of a major decline. Regional supply routes – developed since 2001 for the war in Afghanistan – have boosted Western influence in the region, but will soon lose their importance. Russia, which has so far judged that Read More …
By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China has showcased its first aircraft carrier landings while maintenance woes have reduced the United States to a single carrier in the Gulf, pointing to the beginnings of a subtle shift in the balance of naval power. With South China Sea tensions growing, the threat of Middle East conflict still very real and counterterrorism and counter Read More …
By Scott Stearns Voice of America BEIJING — Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in Russia this week are expected to discuss how best to reconcile border disputes in the South China Sea. Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and China all have competing territorial claims. Chinese patrols in contested waters, and a nehttp://globalbalita.com/wp-admin/plugins.phpw Chinese garrison on a disputed island put rival claims to the South China Sea Read More …
Backbencher By Rod P. Kapunan Manila Standard Today The collapse of the Soviet Union in August 1991 apparently brought to an end the Cold War between the two rival superpowers—the United States and the then- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Indeed, it was fallacious to assume that the ideological abnegation of Russia and China erased the wedge that once divided the people in what came Read More …