Author: Keith Delbert Turner

The United States will respond to the challenges posed by China with “determination” and “firmness”, but nevertheless intends to maintain open “lines of communication” with Beijing, a senior American diplomat said on Wednesday. “We did it, we are doing it, and we will continue to maintain open lines of communication to responsibly manage the competition between our two countries,” State Department No. a speech at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington. She reaffirmed that the United States was not looking for “conflict with China”, but recognized that the Asian giant was “the only competitor who has both the intention…

The strength of any country is not limited only to the military and economic ones, but also to its alliances and expansion The Ukraine war revealed the elements of strength and weakness in the #geo-political, #geo-strategic, and #geo-economic conflict worldwide. The strength of any country is not only the military and economic strength, but also the strength and expansion of its alliances, and the weaknesses of any country that exceed what it has at home to what it does not have abroad, as well as competence and professionalism in managing what it has. The basic game is the game of groups,…

The Philippines and the United States will this year carry out their biggest joint military drills since 2015, Manila’s army chief said on Wednesday, against a backdrop of growing tensions with China in the South China Sea. The exercises underscore improved ties with the United States under President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, and come as the Philippines condemns China’s “aggressive” actions in the disputed waterway, including its use of a “military-grade laser” against one of Manila’s vessels earlier this month. The annual ‘Balikatan’ exercises will be conducted in the second quarter and involve more than the previous year’s 8,900 troops, army…