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What's with the angry rhetoric? This is not the tone of a winning foot - soldier. You talk like a novice al-shabaab militant whom Putin annihilated scores of the likes elsewhere in not so distant past. Russia's Orthodox propaganda aside (to galvanize people around the war effort), this is a...

Very much like North Korean Songun strategy. Avoiding sanctions like Iran, building military like North Korea... Putin has chosen the league he wants his country to be in.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/without-a-covid-19-narrative-china-s-censors-are-not-sure-what-to-do BEIJING - Since China dropped its strict “zero-Covid” policy, a joke has been making the rounds on social media about the sudden shift. Three men who don’t know each other sit in a...

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I do not see the logic here. At the UNSC, whatever resolution is passed, it means unanimous decision. For instance, they either supported or abstained resolutions on Libya in 2011. Again, resolution 1441 on Iraq, both voted in favor in 2002 whereas only France threatened a veto if the language...

That's a little dramatic for you to put that way, but remind that UNSC has only five permanent with veto power. Hence, one vote is as good as four combined. Decisions need unanimous agreement. At the UNSC, no such cronyism is required. Each check the other with their veto welding power. Russia...

Your rhetoric on this thread invokes the cold calculation of an ISIS recruit. You well know that no political process is perfect, and Pres. Zelensky is not less legitimate than, say the Mexican or Turkish leader. A legitimate leader cannot be called a puppet. Especially one who has proven to be...

The current system was created by the winners, naturally. Which included China (ROC) and the USSR. Regardless of bad faith and violations, there's a framework in place. As for violations of UN resolutions, you need to look at it in an issue-specific way. Resolutions on Israel may be violated...

Your brain might be too geriatric to realize but with this phenomenally deep analysis you insulted Russia badly. Under normal state of affairs, such a fatal negligence or abuse of duty/authority would be a quick court marshall of the top leadership.

I do not argue it is better or worse. I just observe that it is the general inclination in East Asia - more so today than in the past three decades. I do not see regional powers working together to balance out the hegemon. Most are engaged in bandwagoning or balancing. Global hegemony would...

I am not sure regional hegemony is preferable to global hegemony, from the perspective of medium and small powers. As it seems, in East Asia, majority do not want a regional hegemon, and prefer global hegemon. This is the reality today. I do not know how many central Asian country would love to...

Then past two years of draconian measures were ill-considered. China would be better to go in tune with the world.

According to state data, 2 people died of COVID-19 since early December... If this is not the high time to keep top leadership responsible for a deadly policy failure, I do not know when is the right time.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/12/4948a04496b1-tokyo-unwitting-host-to-chinese-police-station-report.html Japan's Foreign Ministry on Monday shared with lawmakers a rights group's report claiming that Tokyo is unwittingly hosting a so-called Chinese overseas police station, believed...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/U.S.-Navy-adds-submarine-hunting-destroyer-to-Japan-fleet

No such thing as ancient powers returning. No such historical determinism. Just as ancient Egypt, Rome, or Ottoman Empire won't return, nor will ancient China. It is a country existing in modern times and, like all others, are subject to modern forces.

It was initially Japan that helped Asia kickstart. Then the four dragons joined. China is the tier three. Next will be Vietnam- led South East Asia+ India. China was immensely critical economically especially during the 1997 financial crisis, acting as a very responsible power. Japan has been...

Probably not to conquer, but to balance.

The key question is, what made Japan, which rained peaceful and maintained a low key military development despite all the tech advantages, so radically transform its strategic posture. From Japan's perspective, probably, SCS developments was the eye opener, and Ukraine war has become the trigger.

Actually, they are not busted, but Putin has begun to resort to pariah state tactics, which is well known. Hence, even those vessels manipulating their AIS or those carrying the documents of other scrapped ships are eventually tracked. It is line a game of cat and mouse, the mouse has to devise...