Japan doesn’t seek to confront China directly, but it will so do if driven to it. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Japan’s foreign policy in the 21st century is in the midst of a tectonic change. No longer influenced by its pacifist constitution and intimate alliance with the United States, Japan now is reasserting its strategic autonomy and revamping its security ...
Humanity’s common destiny against US-backed separatism. By Orçun Göktürk, Beijing / China The decline of American hegemony, which has spread blood and death across the globe for decades, is now gasping for breath, especially with the terror state it created in West Asia–Israel. The inhumane war that Israel, the satellite of American imperialism, is waging in Palestine, alongside its increasing ...
ASO Taro, the first incumbent Deputy Prime Minister of Japan to make an official visit to Taiwan, delivered a speech in Taipei on August 8, in which he bluntly stated that Japan, Taiwan, the United States, and other volunteer nations must function as a strong deterrent force against China, and that he was “ready to fight”. The Yokohama City Employees’ ...
On March 26, 2023, Honduras stopped its diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established these formally with the Republic of China. On this decision, I spoke with the Vice Foreign Minister of the Republic of Honduras, Gerardo Torres Zelaya. What is the broader context of your government’s decision to establish diplomatic relations with the P.R. of China? Honduras, traditionally and especially ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The recently concluded 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) persisted in the guideline of peaceful reunification of the country under the idea of sustaining two political systems for a period of time. Under the one-China principle, the CPC has set out to promote “broad and in-depth consultations with all parties, circles, and ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * After Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, many opinions were expressed about what China could and should do in response. Last week, we reviewed some actions that readers sent me as a conclusion to their own reflections. Many of them were of a confrontational and catastrophic nature, assuming the need for a reply by China that ...
By Orçun Göktürk * The US and China are once again engaged in conflict in the Pacific after Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, visited Taiwan. The problem is not just a provocation of the US playing the Taiwan card. If we take a comprehensive look, the only goal of the US in supporting the separatist ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The visit of the Speaker of the United States’ House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the provocation to China that this entails, can only be interpreted as one more step in the escalation of tensions that Washington wants to generate in the world in order to maintain its global hegemony. The visit pursued two objectives: ...
By Adem Kılıç * The world is going through tough times with the Russia-Ukraine war, the most chaotic conflict of the last period that was shaken by the pandemic. As the world was going through a new structuring process in the light of the freshly formed balances with the beginning of this war, a similar problem, the Taiwan issue, began ...
The government of the Republic of Nicaragua has stopped relations with Taiwan and has established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. The Central American country’s step reflects a broader tendency in the region and constitutes a huge blow to the United States. Nicaragua’s decision also may lead to an increase of Chinese foot print in Latin America with ...