Barack Obama has unveiled plans to deploy 2500 Marines in northernAustraliabut insisted the move was not prompted by fear ofChina. By Jonathan Pearlman inCanberra During his first Presidential visit to Australia, Mr Obama and Julia Gillard announced an expanded military agreement under which theUS will station Marines inDarwin from next year. The deployment will expand […]
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Barack Obama to Deploy 2,500 Marines in Australia as He Says ‘We Do Not Fear China’
6/02/2012
Опубликовано в Australia, November-December 2011, Press Review, The South Pacific 
Комментариев нет »Australia Could be Caught in Sino-US Crossfire
6/02/2012US President Barack Obama arrived in Australiatoday for a long-delayed visit. It is reported that Obama is going to announce an expanded USmilitary presence in Australia. The move is widely seen as a renewal of the US-Australia alliance to keep Chinain check. It is also interpreted as a choice made by Australia between the US […]
Опубликовано в Australia, China, November 2011, November-December 2011, Press Review, Press Review Комментариев нет »China Military Denounces U.S.-Australia Defense Upgrade
6/02/2012By Chris Buckley BEIJING| Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:43pm EST (Reuters) – China’s military denounced the United Statesand Australia on Wednesday for upgrading military ties, warning that such moves could erode trust and fan Cold War-era antagonism. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng made the warning about a plan unveiled in mid-November by U.S. President […]
Kremlin Turns Its Face to Eastern Frontier
6/02/2012
Mark Mackinnon From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 8:01PM EST It looks likeRussia, this city of tall Europeans who walk among the pastel-coloured buildings that line streets with names like Pushkin, Gogol and Lenin. But the poshest hotel inVladivostokis called the Hyundai and sushi bars are starting to rival borscht-and-vodka joints […]
How the West is Wholly Missing China’s Geopolitical Focus
6/02/2012Posted By Alexandros Petersen Tuesday, January 10, 2012 – 2:01 AM Alexandros Petersen is Advisor with the European Energy Security Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the author of The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West. This post is the result of a […]
Together,U.S.,India and Japan Can Check China
6/02/2012By By Brahma Chellaney The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the United States, India and Japan, and their decision to hold joint naval exercises this year, signal efforts to form an entente among the Asia-Pacific region’s three leading democracies. These efforts – in the world’s most economically dynamic region where the specter of a […]
Philippines May Allow Greater U.S. Military Presence in Reaction to China’s Rise
6/02/2012By Craig Whitlock, Two decades after evictingU.S.forces from their biggest base in the Pacific, thePhilippinesis in talks with the Obama administration about expanding the American military presence in the island nation, the latest in a series of strategic moves aimed atChina. Although negotiations are in the early stages, officials from both governments said they are […]
Russia Ready to Strengthen Bilateral Ties With Japan: Lavrov
6/02/2012MOSCOW (Kyodo) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed readiness on Thursday to strengthen Japanese-Russian ties, saying that the deepening of political dialogue and economic ties between the two countries would contribute to security in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. In a written interview with Kyodo News ahead of his two-day visit toJapanfrom Saturday, […]
Japan, Russia to Boost Business, Security Ties
6/02/2012Old foes pursue bilateral gains despite isle row Kyodo JapanandRussiaagreed Saturday to strengthen bilateral economic and security cooperation, despite the lack of progress in resolving a long-standing territorial dispute. “With the security environment in the Asia-Pacific region experiencing significant change, Japan-Russia relations are taking on growing importance,” Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba told a joint news […]
Time For a Compromise Between Russia and Japan
6/02/2012The KnottyKurilIslandProblem Written by Jonathan Berkshire Miller Last month, the former Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara took his second trip to the disputed Kuril Islands, although the tone of his visit was far different from the frosty exchanges of late. Maehara, who resigned his post in March amid a funding scandal but returned to the […]