America Versus China
November 13, 2020
On October 27 U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo spoke with Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of India’s news website The Print in an interview that descended into an anti-China diatribe by Pompeo, who was f…
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Mike Pompeo Looks to Expand Quad
November 12, 2020
Central to the last foreign tour of US State Secretary Mike Pompeo in a number of Asian countries was a visit to India, where he and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper participated in another two-way mee…
America’s “Quad Alliance” is a Dead End
October 31, 2020
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or “Quad” as it’s been referred to is a US-led bloc created in 2007 consisting of the US itself, Australia and supposedly Japan and India. The bloc, whatever i…
US Creating Arab and Asian Counterparts to NATO
October 22, 2020
The US has recently been stepping up its military and political activities in several areas. In addition to the Pentagon’s main focus on the Middle East and Afghanistan under the guise of combating te…
Is War With China Becoming Inevitable?
October 20, 2020
"The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border," Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday. He spelled out what he meant to commentator Larry O'Connor: "Th…
On the Ministerial Meeting for Participants in the “Quad”
October 16, 2020
The meeting on October 6th between the foreign ministers for countries participating in the so-called “Quadrilateral” (the Quad), which is composed of the USA, Japan, India, and Australia, is one of t…
Europe Marks Distance from Indo-Pacific Strategy
October 13, 2020
The European Council special meeting in Brussels on 1st October had Turkey, Belarus, Russia and China on its agenda. The foreign-policy decisions of the summit — comprising the heads of state or gover…
Quadruple Trouble for China? Why Washington’s hopes of Creating an anti-Beijing NATO-style Bloc in the Region is a Pipe Dream
October 8, 2020
Mike Pompeo wants to turn the “Quad” – an informal coalition of Australia, India, Japan, and the US – into a military alliance to counter Beijing. But it’s not going to happen, because of China’s econ…