Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS

China condemned the U.S. and Canada for sailing two warships through the Taiwan Strait last week, accusing the countries of colluding to “stir up trouble” and jeopardize peace in the region. The People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command said that its forces “stood guard” during the passage on Thursday and Friday, according to Al Jazeera. “Taiwan...

Chinese and Indian forces continue to amass in eastern Ladakh inside the disputed Line of Actual Control that borders the two countries. Both sides blamed the other for the missed opportunity during a meeting last Monday intended to diffuse the situation. Indian officials say China has tried to “alter the status quo” in the region,...

Will Poland stay in the European Union or will it go? Protests broke out in the Republic of Poland over the weekend over rumors that the Central European country is planning to ditch the European Union over a court ruling that found an EU legal standard “incompatible” with Warsaw’s constitution. The tension with the EU...

The Yemen war, launched by Saudi Arabia with the support of the United States, has escalated. History The political uprising against Ali Abdullah Saleh, who served as the first President of Yemen since its unification in 1990, erupted during the 2011 Arab Spring. The country is one of the poorest in the world, with 80...

Eight protesters were killed in northern India when vehicles drove into them while they peacefully marched on a road last week, sparking a new round of outrage in the country since the son of a government official is accused of being in one of the cars. The Wall Street Journal reported that two-thirds of the country...

South Korea finds itself in an awkward position as the U.S. tries to form a united front of regional partners to counter China’s increasing economic and military power, while Seoul has shown little interest in alienating its neighbor and most important trade partner. Seoul exported goods worth over $136 billion to China in 2019, according...

Nicholas Chaillan, the former software chief from the Pentagon, said in an interview published Monday that China has already won the artificial intelligence race with the U.S. and will likely further its lead in other technologies in the future. “We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years,” he told The Financial...

Taiwan’s top military official said last Wednesday that the country’s military “situation” is at its worst in four decades. Chiu Kuo-cheng’s comments came after China flew 150 aircraft near the island over the previous four days, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the rise of China and its growing influence in the region...

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who appeared in front of Congress last week to discuss the Afghanistan withdrawal admitted to the House Armed Services Committee that the war had been a “strategic failure.” “It wasn’t lost in the last 20 days or even 20 months,” he said. “There’s...

The People’s Daily Online reported, on 29 September, that China now leads the world in applications for patents involving biological breeding, according to a report from the Development and Research Center of the China National Intellectual Property Administration. Such patent applications are on the rise worldwide, but the majority come from the U.S. and, now,...