June 2015

One significant observation in the mainstream media is the lack of reporting of the Chinese leaders’ public speeches. It is a good thing that Chinese leaders have made a conscious effort to make public speeches at international conferences. However, the U.S. mainstream media do not find it as worthwhile as the organic media do in reporting those speeches. The Chinese leaders, President Xi Jinping...

The Hawks have been saying that China is expanding her military rapidly causing security concern, but China’s position is that China is spending appropriately for her size having a large number of neighbors, some pursuing aggressive border dispute with China. Militarily, it is illogical to encourage Japan to strengthen more her military power as an island country with no adjacent neighbors in...

(Continued from issue #95) Japan’s ambition to be No. 1 economy was never diminished. Although Japan is desperate to find a solution to grow her economy under the burden of an aging population; however, many of the U.S. and Japan’s diplomatic actions such as their joint military exercises, excluding China from the TPP initiative, cultivating more bilateral military treaties with Asian countries...