. Jenny Clegg, Morning Star Aug 23-24, 2014. @JennyClegg1 On May 6, NATO General Security Rasmussen and Japan’s Prime Minister Abe met at the NATO headquarters to sign a new agreement on cooperation. Both stated that NATO and Japan were ‘natural partners’; both drew parallels between the situations in the Ukraine and the East and South China Seas.
Continue reading →Joseph Gerson* The Obama Administration’s provocative decision to send a veiled nuclear threat to China with last week’s B-52 flights over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands grew out of a complicated set of issues with deep historic roots. Not the least of them being the Obama Administration’s campaign to preserve U.S. Asia-Pacific hegemony in the era of U.S. decline and China’s rise.
Continue reading →Newsletter vom 30.10.2013 -German Foreign Policy TOKIO/BERLIN (Eigener Bericht) – Berliner Regierungsberater plädieren für einen weiteren Ausbau der NATO-Kooperation mit Japan. Im Ostchinesischen Meer gebe es “Krisen”, die “außer Kontrolle zu geraten” drohten, heißt es mit Blick auf den aktuellen japanisch-chinesischen Streit um die Diaoyu-Inseln (japanisch: Senkaku-Inseln). http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/58723
Continue reading →Friends, Thought you’d want to see the attached article. Global alliances….. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/national/nato-chief-abe-pledge-closer-security-cooperation/#.UW46zUrLsVo jg
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