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
... ... by the wayside of the agenda pursued by the British leadership. There are bilateral formats in place such as the Malaysia–United Kingdom strategic dialogue or the Joint Economic and Trade Committee with Indonesia. Their effectiveness is low, though,...
... Co-Conveners of the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG)
The Co-Conveners of the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG) released the following
statement
:
“We welcome the leadership shown by the leaders of The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America in their January 3, 2022 Joint Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races.
We are encouraged by the statement’s clear affirmation of the principle ...
... worried about the implications of the U.S. decision to share nuclear submarine technology with a non-nuclear state (instead of the French diesel submarines, Canberra will now get eight nuclear submarines).
Alexander Yermakov:
Barrier Reef to Counter China: Nuclear Edition
These are valid points, but they all focus on the short-term consequences of the creation of AUKUS. Yet the decision to form a trilateral union and the new format of modernizing Australia’s underwater fleet will also have long-term ...
... excruciating pressure imposed on U.S. President Donald Trump to drop his efforts to achieve a collaborative relationship with China's President Xi Jinping, it is useful to review the strategy outlined by former United Kingdom Ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, to manipulate him to adopt British policy initiatives. The {Daily Mail} ... ....S. is investigating whether this may have been a mistake, or deliberate!
Ivan Timofeev:
Missouri vs. China: Toward a New Crusade?
Clearly Trump had not been briefed on the devastating blow to Ferguson's polemic from Dr. Daniel A. Bell, Dean of the ...
... language used in a resolution on the coronavirus. However, that does not mean that China's preferred wording will be any easier to adopt either. We should also add that... ... New Bug or Feature of World Politics?
In this sense, the recent standoff between the United Kingdom and the European Union about how to tackle the pandemic is intriguing... ... "national" strategy here too—an approach that included minimal social distancing and a refusal to close restaurants, bars and night clubs. This was done in the hope that elderly...
... interesting subject for discussion.
As for deployed strategic nuclear weapons covered by the New START, the U.K., France and China have a total of 500 such weapons,
7
while each of the two superpowers possesses over 2,000.
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Other states have only intermediate-range ... ... opponent from achieving success in a conventional conflict. Hence the nuclear revanchists are striving to make nuclear weapons more usable, while the revisionists call for discarding traditional methods of arms control in favor of entirely new ways of enhancing ...
... Russia’s Presence in Southeast Europe and Russia’s New Strategy
The United States is pushing forward only those decisions that assure their influence on the pan-European processes as well as strengthen their positions in the global confrontation. Russia, China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, which are accumulating more and more influence in the region, taken separately, are not so powerful. In any case, they are simply not able to offer any alternative to the “European choice”. However, they have never ...
... Balkans a part of the Euro-Atlantic region is not entirely correct, since over recent years, the economic, political and ideological influence of other important actors in the region, including new ones, has grown significantly. These actors are primarily China, but also Turkey and several Middle Eastern states.
The presence of many actors with diverging interests in the fragmented post-conflict Balkan space demonstrates that the situation in the region would be more properly assessed not as part of the ...
... this process), or on certain transparency measures.
In addition, China, France and the United Kingdom could set up an independent expert commission to look into the “violations”... ..., help the countries better understand each other and propose solutions.
Europe and China are particularly interested in a controlled revision of the treaty to bring it... ... threat due to their ability to carry nuclear warheads. Even with a range of several thousand kilometres they would ensure guaranteed destruction of their targets with warheads...