By The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — For much of the past year, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the Pacific have trained for a conflict with the Pentagon’s most powerful potential adversary, China. Now the invasion of Ukraine by Russia — another “near peer” nation and newly aligned partner of China — has […]
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By RT The Chinese foreign minister advised the US to acknowledge the negative impact of NATO expansion US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the phone on Saturday about Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and China’s Taiwan policy. During the meeting, Wang reportedly told Blinken that the Ukraine conflict […]
Taiwan last year approved extra military spending of T$240 billion ($8.6 billion) over the next five years as tensions with China, which claims the island as its own territory, have hit a new high and Chinese military planes have repeatedly flown through Taiwan’s air defence identification zone. Source: Taiwan to more than double annual missile […]