Chinese Expansionism

WASHINGTON - The Japan-South Korea relationship is continuing its downward spiral. Both sides appear to be glancing sideways at the United States in the hope and expectation that Washington will step in and help remedy the situation. This circumstance accentu…

This is because a weaker British economy is not in anyones interest except possibly Russias. Expert estimates of costs of Brexit to the British economy since the 2016 referendum range from £550 million to £800 million a week. According to the IMF, a no-deal…

Much has been written the last two years about the retreat of democracy around the world and the onset of what has been called a democratic recession. Russian interference, Chinese expansionism, European stagnation, and the turning away of the United States f…

Authored by David Hutt via The Asia Times, Southeast Asian nation has dramatically whipsawed between US-China trade war winner to potential next big tariffed loser The popular consensus is that Vietnam has been one of the worlds biggest US-China trade war w…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte challenged the United States to send a naval fleet to the archipelago under a mutual defense treaty, amid pressure to act more forcefully toward Chinese incursions in Filipino territory in the South China Sea. The outburs…

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next secretary of defense has slammed Turkey's acceptance of the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, parts of which were delivered last week, as "wrong." "Their decision on the S-400 is the wrong o…

Over the past month, the situation at the West Philippine Sea (WPS) has significantly changed for the Philippines, due to two firstsChinese ramming and sinking a Filipino fishing boat on June 9, and Chinese antiship ballistic missile tests in the WPS reported…

(Tribune News Service) The Marine Corps is making good on a 2011 promise to send 2,500 Marines annually to Australia as part of a strengthened alliance in the face of Chinese expansionism, with over 1,000 Marines and 17 aircraft from Hawaii in the mix. Appro…

Analysts say the 34th ASEAN summit this weekend made little progress on two key security issues facing the region: Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea and stalled repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who are languishing in Bangladesh. Leade…

Wen-Qing Ngoei is assistant professor of history at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He completed his PhD in U.S. foreign relations at Northwestern University and did postdoctoral stints at Northwestern and Yale University. Ngoei’s book, Arc o…