Link to article:https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/with-an-eye-china-japans-ruling-party-makes-unprecedented-defence-spending-2021-10-13/ One of the United States allies, Japan, looks to slowly but steadily increase their military budget over the years. Japan plans to increase spending and eventually spend one hundred billion dollars to forego the now 1% GDP military budget and push it to 2% which may not seem like a big increase but it is. They plan… Read more »
link to article: http://www.news.cn/english/2021-10/14/c_1310244355.htm A UN official said that after a meeting China will vow to tackle global development issues. Specifically China will aim to end climate change and the reduction of absolute poverty. China is committed to have net zero emissions by the year of 2060 and to stop funding coal fired power plants. As becoming a permanent member… Read more »
Link to article: https://iwpr.net/global-voices/china-taiwan-tensions-mount China is continuing to flex their muscles at Taiwan and one of Taiwan’s closest allies, the United States. Some believe that this could be a sign of Beijing’s preparation for war. A defense minister out of Taiwan said that relations between them and China are at their worst in 40 years. Jinping knows that launching an… Read more »
Link to article:https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210923_21/ Taiwan officially has reported that twenty four Chinese military aircrafts entered the Taiwan air defense identification zone. Taiwan reported that nineteen of the twenty four aircrafts which included J-16 fighters and H-6 bombers flew over waters southwest of Taiwan Thursday morning. Eventually some of the aircrafts broke off and passed through the Bashi channel between Taiwan and… Read more »
Article link:https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-proposes-extra-87-bln-defence-spending-over-5-years-2021-09-16/ Taiwan Proposed on Thursday september 16th that they plan to spend 8.69 billion dollars over the next five years on growing their military power in case of a severe threat from neighboring and bigger country China. Taiwan’s defense ministry stated that China’s military power has grown very quickly over a short period of time and the only way… Read more »
Article link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/north-korea-fired-ballistic-missiles-from-train-amid-rising-tensions-with-the-south On Wednesday September 15th North Korea successfully launched ballistic missiles from a railway train after rising tensions with the south. Two missless were transported along the mountainous central North Korean railway and eventually launched into the air to successfully strike a sea target eight hundred kilometers away. Not only did North Korea launch the two ballistic missiles… Read more »
