Geopolitical moves are being made on the issue of North Korea. A day after South Korea’s new government offered to hold military talks with its neighbor to the North, the United States’ second-highest ranking military official admitted Tuesday that North Korean missiles lack the accuracy to effectively target U.S. cities. On Monday, South Korea’s defense ministry proposed Read More…
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Is It Time To Think And Act Differently On North Korea?
North Korea’s latest test of a missile with a range capable of threatening American cities has left the Trump Administration somewhere between wishful thinking and a hard place. Too bad neither represents a realistic resolution of the conundrum. The easy way out, for the US at least, is to “let China do it.” President Donald Trump, Read More…
Exercise In Free Speech And Hypocrisy: Woman Urinates On American Flag, Death Threats Ensue
After a video of her desecrating the American flag went viral, a young woman had a $3,000 bounty put on her head as the internet called for her blood. Never has unadulterated hypocrisy marched itself to the forefront on a silver platter more efficaciously than on Independence Day in the United States — that is, Read More…
ISIS “Coincidentally” Appears Along China’s One Belt, One Road
Two Chinese teachers based in Pakistan’s southwest province of Baluchistan were reportedly abducted and murdered by militants from the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS). CNN, in an article titled, “‘Grave concern’ over Chinese teachers reportedly killed by ISIS in Pakistan,” would attempt to portray the act of terrorism as a random strike aimed at China’s expanding Read More…
In “Unprecedented Step” US Sanctions Chinese Entities With Ties To North Korea
After allegedly pressuring the Chinese government to act first and adopt sanctions against nearly 10 local entities who the US claims provided North Korea with materials used in its nuclear program, the US has decided to act. In an unprecedented step, the Treasury Department slapped financial sanctions on two Chinese nationals and a Chinese shipping company over Read More…
Strange Bedfellows: The India/Pakistan/China Triangle
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows, and if that’s the case then perhaps we don’t have to look any further than the images coming out of Astana last week for proof of that dictum. Astana, of course, is the capital of Kazakhstan, and last weekend it played host to the annual leaders’ summit of Read More…