Link to article: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/china-conducting-dramatic-economic-warfare-against-australia-us-official Summary: China is conducting “dramatic economic warfare” against Australia in order to “break” the US ally. This has increased the anxiety about Beijing in the Indo-Pacific region. This was what the White House’s Indo-Pacific coordinator, Kurt Campbell, reported to a Sydney think tank. Joe Biden mentioned the recent treatment of Australia in his meeting with Chinese… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/politics/global-posture-review-china/index.html Summary: The Pentagon has announced that they will focus on building bases in Guam and Australia to prepare the US military to counter China. A senior defense official provided some details of the review that took place in the Pentagon to discuss China and how to counter them. The defense official says that in the meeting… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/asia/taiwan-china-warplane-flights-intl-hnk-ml/index.html Summary: On Sunday Taiwan’s Air Force rushed to warn away 27 Chinese aircraft that entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Zone. Taiwan’s defense Ministry commented on this saying that the latest increase in tensions across the Taiwan Strait as China’s president met his top generals. China however says that Taiwan has complained for a year or more of… Read more »
link to article: https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/pentagon-report-china-two-pronged-war-india-taiwan-1874152-2021-11-08 Summary: This article summarizes the Pentagon’s report on China’s conflict with both India and Taiwan, however a majority of the article is focused on the Taiwanese conflict. The conflict between India and China is border disputes where neither area is advancing on each other but the threat of the other advancing keeps armed forces on the… Read more »
link to article https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/asia/china-russia-un-sanctions-north-korea-intl-hnk/index.html Summary: China and Russia recently revived efforts to get the United Nations Security Council to ease sanctions on North Korea. This is something that they attempted in 2019 but failed. They now have filed a new reworked draft for this fight. They hope to remove the ban on Pyongyang exports of statues, seafood and textiles, as… Read more »
link to article:https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/11/04/commentary/world-commentary/aukus-japan-future/ Summary: Since September 15th when Australia announced that they will be forgoing their submarine deal with France and instead go with a deal with the United States and the United Kingdom that will provide Australia with high grade nuclear submarines. This deal between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom is known as AUKUS. This agreement… Read more »
