...,000 Soviet military experts, including a large group of pilots, were involved in combat operations.
After Tokyo refused to surrender, the USSR, loyal to its allied obligations, entered the war in the Far East. Soviet forces swiftly defeated a powerful Japanese army group. Northeastern China and Korea were liberated from Japanese occupation.
Tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers gave their lives for the freedom and independence of China. We are happy to see that Beijing honours the memory of our compatriots. In 2015, Heilongjiang Province ...
... States’ intended return to Asia and the new U.S.–Japanese–South Korean military partnership is seen by Beijing as the encirclement of its country. In this context, ensuring the continued existence of North Korea is of strategic importance to China.
Japan fears the emergence of a unified Korea as a powerful competitor in the regional and global arena, much like the United Kingdom and France tried to delay the formation of a unified Germany in the late 1980s.
For these reasons, the United States, ...
... the celebrations of the 50th and 60th Victory Day anniversaries.
Valor and glory
. The Chinese very much honor the wartime friendship that united the two great nations during the war. They will never forget the heroism of Soviet pilots who fought the Japanese in the skies of China during the days of resistance. China treasures the memory of the Soviet warriors who fell in the battles against the Quantung Army in the course of liberating the Chinese northeast in 1945, while the struggle of the Chinese people helped paralyze ...
... three areas of “Abenomics”, the name given to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following the return of the Liberal Democratic Party to power in December 2012.
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Konstantin Sarkisov:
Japan-US-China Triangle and Security in East
Asia: a Triangle or an Axis?
The large-scale purchase of foreign public bonds by the Bank of Japan is a part of the policy to increase the monetary stock, or monetize the economy. This has helped to fill the market ...
... determines whether the international non-proliferation regime is no longer regarded as violated, and a “specific” relationship is established. This may fuel the nuclear ambitions of threshold states that have allied relations with Washington (Japan, South Korea, etc.) or territorial disputes with nuclear China, as well as of the countries that are just beginning to develop their own nuclear program and aspire to regional leadership (Saudi Arabia).
Moscow’s reaction to the deal between India and the US was also not long in coming: the Russian embassy ...
The struggle for offshore resources has intensified in East Asia, and Japan-China tensions seem of particular concern. Due to its alliance treaty with Japan, the United States is also involved in the conflict. The Japanese Ministry of Defense has, for the first time ever, qualified the situation around the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands ...
... influence in the nearby Pacific.
Obviously, China will pretend to gain all the profits in Yellow, East and South China Seas in the nearest 2-3 years. Then, up to 2020 it’s presumed to obtain capabilities to operate freely in seas of Okhotsk and Japan as well in domains reaching Marianas and Carolinas. After 2020 China may have potential strong enough to oppose the USA near Hawaii and wherever in the Pacific. Today, PLA Navy doesn’t even train to attack USSs however rising naval power is considered to be a threat by key actors. In spite of above mentioned ...
... Purpose
. New York: Public Affairs. See chapters 1 through 3 for an in-detail account of Pyle’s argument.
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The ideational aspects of Japanese foreign policy thinking are addressed in Self, Benjamin L. 2007.
The Dragon’s Sgadow: The Rise of China and Japan’s New Nationalism
. Washington D.C.: The Stimson Center.
[3]
Green, Michael J. 2003.
Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power
. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Sheila A. Smith, interview by ...
... heretofore have been seen as a geopolitical risk. In its new Cold War with the West, Russia will need China more—as a source of cash, an investor, and a market. With Russia more dependent on it, China's international influence will substantially grow.
China, however, cannot be a source of high technology for Russia, and Moscow is probing the Japanese as to how far they will be prepared to go in their economic relations with Russia. At a business forum last week in Tokyo, Rosneft's Igor Sechin was inviting the Japanese to invest in energy projects in Siberia and the Arctic. Japan's businessmen ...
... apparently because China lacks any significant contributions to theoretical physics and because Beijing is oriented towards importing weapons instead of creating a military industrial complex.
Photo: AP
Joint Russian and Chinese naval drills in
the Sea of Japan, June. 2013
China’s nuclear policy emphasizes the naval component of strategic nuclear forces. In 2010, Fudan University (Shanghai) Professor Shen Dingli proposed the ‘string of pearls’ concept
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, whereby a series of naval bases is established ...
