March 11, 2017 | Astute News

Walking a Tightrope: China Manoeuvres Between Saudi Arabia and Iran

March 11, 2017

This week’s imposition of sanctions on one of China’s largest telecom equipment manufacturers, ZTE, by the US Commerce Department, and an investigation of Huawei, ZTE’s foremost Chinese competitor, co…

Assad: No One Invited US to Manbij, All Foreign Troops in Syria Without Permission are ‘Invaders’

March 11, 2017

Middle East

Any foreign forces, including those from the US, that enter Syria without invitation are invaders, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Chinese media in an interview, noting that no one had given the US…

The Strategic Triangle that is Changing the World

March 11, 2017

Opinion

While the world continues to decipher, or digest, the new Trump presidency, important changes are afoot within the grand strategic triangle that lies between Russia, Iran and China Away from the curre…

God in Politics or a Godless World: Time to Choose

March 11, 2017

Opinion

The geo-political struggle between so-called “globalists” and their nationalistic (populist) counterparts has reached a feverish pitch. With trust and belief systems in the crucible, everything from o…

Into the Syrian Quagmire – Trump Meets Complexity

March 11, 2017

Opinion

Donald Trump thinks he’s going to get rid of ISIS in Syria “quickly,” and then we’ll be on our way to making America great again – but already he’s finding that the terrain there is a bit crowded, and…

Analyzing Austria’s “Refugee”/Immigrant Proposal for the EU Periphery

March 11, 2017

Middle East

The Austrians recently called on the Western Balkans, Georgia, and Egypt to build “refugee”/immigrant centers for processing and potentially indefinitely housing the hundreds of thousands of non-Weste…

Dreams of ‘Winning’ Nuclear War on Russia

March 11, 2017

Opinion

In 1961, senior Pentagon consultants drafted a 33-page blueprint for initiating — and winning — a nuclear war against the Soviet Union. It was based on top-secret intelligence that Soviet nuclear forc…

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Forgotten Showdown Between China and America

March 11, 2017

Opinion

Twenty-one years ago this week, as Taiwanese were readying to hold their country’s first direct presidential election later in March, China flexed its military muscles by holding a series of military …