... Europe in 1989. The main reason for the latter difference was evident—socialist countries in Asia (the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) never collapsed, imploded or converted to Western-style capitalism like ... ... into many problems from the very outset and fell apart after the US defeat in Vietnam. In the North, all US attempts to unite Japan and the Republic of Korea under a shared security umbrella were not successful due to complicated relations between Seoul ...
... territory, similar to those on duty in Poland and Romania.
Andrey Kortunov:
US-Led Arms Race Could Push Mankind into the Abyss
The Republic of Korea has three Aegis BMDS destroyers equipped with interceptors (mostly SM-6). Seoul is also
building
an echeloned ... ... 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 a global missile defense system to prevent violation of Russia’s ...
Washington intends to cash in on the topic of alleged military-technological cooperation between Russia and the DPRK or China and the DPRK, in order to build anti-Russian and anti-Chinese sentiments in the Republic of Korea and Japan
In foreign media and academic articles, they increasingly often refer to a “Beijing-Moscow-Pyongyang axis” that is emerging in Northeast Asia (NEA). Under these circumstances, Western authors believe, the U.S. and its main Pacific allies, ...
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 ...
... that are so typical of Asia’s international politics [
2
], South Korea is one of Japan’s three largest trade partners. Japan exports into South Korea up to
$54 billion... ...
two-thirds
of the global market. Additionally, both the United States’ Apple and China’s Huawei depend on the products produced by South Korean companies. Integrated... ... Japan
approved the decision
to take South Korea off its “white list” (where the Republic of Korea was the only Asian state), thereby depriving it of trade preferences...
According to the new findings of the ongoing research project, Asian investors continue to increase direct investments in the EAEU. During the monitoring period (2008–2016), FDI stock originating from 12 Asian countries (China, Japan, Turkey, India, Israel, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, Singapore, and Vietnam) has increased from $32 billion in 2008 to $75.6 billion in the beginning of 2017.
China continues to expand its economic presence in EAEU countries and other CIS states, retaining ...