Tag: U.S. Navy



The Chinese balloon-scare episode gripping America’s political class is comical if it were not so serious in its implications for global security.

There is something of the theater of absurd in American and European posturing. But it’s far from funny. It’s menacingly deranged.

Amid fears the new US-UK-Australia military agreement may provoke a future confrontation with China, past and present collaboration between Australian and British elites in military, intelligence, nuclear and immigration policies provide numerous causes for concern.

So warned Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in his address to the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2020. He was referring to the consequences for East Asia of a conflict between the US and China.