... they have even torn down surrounding buildings to recreate the cathedral square in its initial splendor. The famous Harbin railway station, where in October of 1909 Korean nationalist An Jung-geun assassinated Ito Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan, has got a new magnificent Nouveau style terminal modelled after the original 1899 Russian station. Harbin has every reason to position itself as the leading China’s national hub for economic, cultural, educational and human interaction with its northern neighbor.
Remembering WW2 in Asia
One of the items of Vladimir Putin agenda in Harbin was to lay flowers at the memorial to some twelve thousand of Soviet ...
... California and the Aleutian Islands, while mobile radars on floating platforms are deployed in the Marshall Islands and bases in Japan.
Since 2004, the United States has
deployed
44 GBI (ground-based interceptor) missiles at Fort Greely (Alaska) and Vandenberg ... ... defense system in the Asia Pacific calls global strategic stability into question, because it could be used against Russia and China. In 2018, the head of Russian diplomacy insistently
urged
Japan to enter into a dialogue about the U.S. plans to create ...
...
Meanwhile, Seoul and Tokyo have become the parties most affected as their ties with China are rapidly deteriorating, while joint projects with Russia are frozen for an... ... dependence on the United States is growing. Whether this policy is really in line with Japanese and South Korean national interests may one day be decided by voters in these... ... by the U.S. military.
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. Waltz K. Theory...
The growing US-Japanese-South Korean military cooperation inevitably leads to stronger China-Russia-North Korea ties
The Russian-North Korean negotiations this month have provoked a lot of hype, particularly in the West. It is assumed by the West that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's trip might indicate a profound change in Moscow's ...
The West’s anti-China rhetoric and the idea of mounting NATO presence in the Indo-Pacific meet with a critical reception from most Asian states
... ... Bay of Bengal and the Strait of Malacca, heading on to the Pacific Ocean on a training mission for patrolling between Guam and Japan; the group also participated in drills with other navies and docked in foreign ports. The mission of the British part was ...
... forward are clearly stronger than the constraints.
Prospects for the Squad-based Indo-Pacific
The political will of the U.S., Japan, India and Australia to foster the Indo-Pacific cooperation is increasing rather than weakening, which is the most important ... ... the extent of this remains uncertain.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
The Coming Bipolarity and Its Implications: Views from China and Russia
At the same time, the relations between the four countries with China are in decline, and there is no possibility ...
RIAC Policy Brief 16, 2018
The three nations of Russia, Japan, and the United States face common security challenges in Northeast Asia. The nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula remains ... ... the recent positive developments, its long term solution remains far from guaranteed. The task of accommodating the growing China’s influence is another challenge to be dealt with by the three powers.
The global context of deteriorating relations between ...