China has called on the United States and Russia to make drastic cuts in their nuclear arsenals, saying countries with atomic weapons should pledge not to be the first to use them. A senior Chinese diplomat has also told a nuclear meeting in Vienna that the development of missile defence systems which disrupt the global […]
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Valery Kistanov – Japan and the United States: “The Asahi Shimbun” reveals shadow of the bilateral relations with the help of WikiLeaks
25/05/2012After the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) raised to power in August 2009 Japan’s relations with its main military and political ally – the United States were seriously complicated by a number of foreign innovations embodied the Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. About the hidden circumstances of bilateral diplomacy of Tokyo and Washington were published the […]
How to not lose Russia
17/05/2012By Nicolai N Petro After Vladimir Putin’s decisive electoral victory in Russia’s presidential election many are asking whether the “reset” in United States-Russian relations will continue. I believe the answer to this question hinges on America’s official reaction to Putin’s re-election. After protests that followed last December’s legislative elections, president Dmitri Medvedev took steps to […]
The China pivot and the US ‘siege’ strategy
17/05/2012By David Isenberg On January 5, the Pentagon released a strategic review. The document itself was not particularly novel. The Pentagon regularly does strategy reviews, trying, like a modern version of the Oracle of Delphi, to divine the future and adjust its forces accordingly. Since the end of the Cold War the Pentagon has had […]
US: China’s aggression written in the stars
17/05/2012By Radhakrishna Rao Media reports reveal that there are growing concerns in the United States over rapidly expanding Chinese space capabilities that could help the communist giant derive diplomatic and defense-related advantages, which in turn could hurt the long-term national security and geostrategic interests of the US. A well-documented national security report on revising US […]
Central Asia: Great Games or Graveyard?
22/03/2012Written by Michael Kofman, Senior Contributor On February 22nd, in what the Financial Times characterized as “Central Asia’s gradual shift from Moscow and towards Beijing,” China drastically expanded its investment in Kazakhstan. Not only in oil, but in a broad range of areas including water, uranium, and transit infrastructure worth billions of dollars. The […]
U.S.-DPRK Food/Nuclear Announcement
22/03/2012By Victor Cha, Ellen Kim, Marie DuMond On February 23–24, the U.S. delegation headed by Ambassador Glyn T. Davies, special representative for North Korea policy, held a third exploratory round of U.S.-DPRK bilateral talks in Beijing with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Kye Gwan. This is the first meeting between the two countries following […]
The price of negotiating with North Korea
22/03/2012By Victor Cha, Ellen Kim and Marie DuMond, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Victor Cha is former director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council and author of “The Impossible State: North Korea’s Past and Future” (Ecco, April 2012). Ellen Kim is a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Marie […]
US Actions Make China-Russia Alliance Appealing
22/03/2012(Global Times) As US aircraft carrier groups gather in the Arabian Sea, a showdown between Iran and the West is rumbling on. If a war erupts, this will be another upshot of the US pursuit of absolute national security. Mainstream forces in Washington are trying to sell a ludicrous standpoint to the American people: that […]
David C. Gompert and Michael Kofman – Raising Our Sights: Russian-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability
21/02/2012The United States and Russia have sought to reduce the danger of nuclear war by limiting offensive strategic capabilities through negotiated agreements, relying on mutual deterrence based on reciprocal threats and the corresponding fear of retaliation. Although nuclear arsenals have been pared, this is fundamentally the same way the United States and Soviet Union sought […]