🇺🇸🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵 QUAD provides an umbrella to huddle together behind closed doors and give vent to their grouse against China in hushed tone — a safety valve for pent-up frustrations.

The scheduling of the QUAD ministerial meeting in Canberra on February 9 right in the middle of the Ukraine crisis and cascading U.S.-Russia tensions served to highlight that China remains Washington’s top foreign policy priority.

Possibly, Washington also gave a nuanced message that it has the capability to simultaneously tackle China and Russia. Washington probably hoped that such messaging would resonate in the Asia-Pacific region, which largely refuses to take sides between the U.S. and China.

Read more by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/14/why-quad-is-irreplaceable/

#Quad #Australia #India #Japan #UnitedStates #China

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🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼 Japan’s future, whether she likes it or not, will be with its East Asian neighbors’ Belt and Road Initiative when the U.S. 7th Fleet scuttles back to Pearl Harbor.

Read more by Declan Hayes: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/05/high-noon-for-japan-asia-toothless-tiger/

#China #IndoPacific #Japan #SouthKorea #Taiwan

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🎎 In case you haven’t been able to hear under all the media thunder of doomsday prophesying by so-called “experts” on China’s future economic performance (which has been going on for close to a decade and is more akin to wishful thinking than economic analysis), Japan’s economy does not require a prophet or crystal ball to tell you what lies ahead in its very near future: that is, that Japan has become the ticking time bomb for the world economy👺

💬 Cynthia Chung writes

#Japan #economy #crisis

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🇵🇭 The real tragedy is that Australia, the Philippines, Japan and America’s other patsies are adopting NATO’s policy of fighting China in Chinese waters.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

#Philippines #Japan #NATO #China

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