... serious political battle among leading powers has started to unfold over the issue, including within the United Nations.
Is there cause for concern here? Could a conflict between both Koreas that is capable of drawing the world’s leading powers of China, Japan and Russia in erupt on Russia’s doorstep? Could such a conflict involve weapons of mass destruction?
Today, we can make the rather paradoxical assertion that the Korean peninsula is one of the most predictable regions in the world (compared with the ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Renmin Ribao, 24 August 2015
The current year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. This anniversary has special significance for Russia and China. Our countries fought Nazism and Japanese militarism together, they bore the brunt of the aggression and sustained the greatest casualties. The unprecedented courage and self-sacrifice, as well as the mobilisation of all forces, enabled our nations to hold out during that terrible battle ...
... sources. For Pyongyang, its nuclear programme is a safety shield. And it will not give it up meekly. There is only one solution – to reach an agreement with Pyongyang on the provision of security guarantees, primarily from South Korea, but also from Russia, China, Japan and all the other countries in the region. These must be firm and convincing guarantees, so as not to arouse any suspicion on any of the sides.
The nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula is a direct consequence of the confrontation between the ...
... Army in the course of liberating the Chinese northeast in 1945, while the struggle of the Chinese people helped paralyze the Japanese troops in order to divert their attack against the Soviet Union.
The names of the Great Patriotic War heroes are still ... ... memory of the older Chinese generation, to a great extent thanks to Soviet war literature and films, which are popular both in China and Russia.
... frequent, and were countered by Japanese aircraft. In 2008-2013 the number of such flights increased from 31 to 415. Russian aircraft statistics followed a similar same pattern: the number of flights increased from 193 to 359 (1.9 times). Since 2012
China has far exceeded Russia
in terms of this indicator.
Data from the Japanese Ministry of Defense white paper fit well enough into the Japanese perception of the “potential Chinese threat.” Over the years 2000-2009 the “China threat” thesis was refuted in Japan at the highest level.
Prime Minister ...
... 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 ...
... 1990s
[8]
has yet to occur
[9]
. This is 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
[10]
, whereby a series of naval bases is established ...
... new policy of “active pacifism”. How will this type of policy in Japan affect the bilateral relationship? Should Russia respond to it, and if so, how?
Recently one of the members of board of governors at a large semi-governmental corporation, NHK, and a popular writer, Naoki Hyakuta, has put forth a justification for Japan’s aggression against China and its attack on Pearl Harbour without a declaration of war. This caused a very angry reaction on the part of the US Department ...
... combinations of these concurrent developments that may result in widening window of opportunity, or vulnerability, for Russia. I analyze that there are at least, but not only, two salient political consequence of the last election from a perspective of Russian interest.
1. Pivotal triangle of U.S.-China-Japan relations (constitutional amendment; Foreign relations and national security)
Today’s U.S.-Japan relations cannot be portrayed without seeing China on its horizon. Many claim that Prime Minister Abe’s ambition to amend Japanese constitution ...
... (SSNs). France’s sale of Mistral-class amphibious assault ships to Russia and Russia’s 10-year lease deal with India over the nuclear-powered attack submarine... ... century, we can expect to see the emergence of new regional maritime powers, such as China, South Korea and India. Moreover, technological and economic progress strengthens... ...
Security Dilemma in the Oceans
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Hyūga-class helicopter destroyer (Japan)
Enhancing the role of maritime powers in the 21st century could entail strengthening...
