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India Jumps on Washington’s ‘China Containment’ Bandwagon

China’s fast-expanding global influence – especially, in the context of the Gaza war – has already emerged as a key issue for Washington. The US is already in a state of denial, and China’s rising global status is turning into too big an issue for New Delhi to handle without entering into a formal anti-China alliance being put together by the US. Therefore, there is an added incentive for New Delhi to reinforce its alliance with the US in an even more anti-China way. This was the major development out of the fifth annual US-India “2+2 dialogue” held on November 10, 2023, in India…

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The Geopolitics of “AUKUS Plus”

In September 2021, the Australia, United Kingdom, and United States (AUKUS) deal brought nuclear technology for military use to the Indo-Pacific. The idea was to change the Indo-Pacific region in a way that would ultimately be ready to tackle – and scale back – China’s influence. The idea was to make Australia “sovereign ready”. Accordingly, the US and the UK are already in the middle of selling and building several nuclear submarines worth billions of dollars to Australia. While the US intends to sell at least 3 nuclear submarines by 2038, the UK and Australia are building a new SSN-AUKUS submarine that both fleets will operate. Australia is to receive Britain’s first SSN-AUKUS in the late 2030s and its first domestically built…

Salman Rafi Sheikh

New Zealand and Australia: Down Under, Split between Colonial Masters and Claimed Values

This title begs the question as to whether being a Member of The Commonwealth “Makes it all Right” in terms of your Geopolitical Orientation? It would even help if you are WASP in blood, breeding and family history, as former and current British subjects are too close in too many ways—and not for their own best interests. Have the Commonwealth Countries near China found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place- NZ is part of the Commonwealth! To make a complicated issue the simpler, the Australians are joined to the hip with the Yanks…

Henry Kamens

US-China: Summiting Without Real Progress

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Australia between the US and the PRC

Vladimir Terehov

Sunsets in Myanmar Are Simply Artistic

Yuliya Novitskaya

Washington’s Expanding Military Footprint on China’s Doorsteps

Brian Berletic

Australia and the USA held a 2+2 meeting

Vladimir Terehov

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