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Militarized Japan and the Biden-Kishida Summit, Signal Moment in the New Cold War

January 12, 2023January 11, 2023 by sstoker

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The Japanese government recently announced plans to double the size of its military budget, which is already the 8th largest in the world. It also issued three new military doctrines which vastly increase its war fighting commits in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. On the eve of the January 13 summit between President Biden and Prime Minister Kishida Joseph Gerson published this article in Common Dreams to dispel myths about the impacts of Japan’s peace constitution, the history of its military buildup, and the expansion of the U.S.-Japan military alliance.

Japan: Washington’s Most Powerful China Containment Ally

May 27, 2022January 17, 2022 by sstoker

Japan: Washington’s Most Powerful China Containment Ally By Joseph Gerson Written for the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy, this essay describes the centrality of the U.S.-Japanese military alliance throughout the Cold War and increasingly aggressive and dangerous 21st century campaigns to militarily contain. Contrary to popular misunderstandings, with pressure from the United States Japan has … Read more

Joseph Gerson: Peace Movements’ Perspectives on the AUKUS Military Pact

November 12, 2021October 8, 2021 by Sam

Peace Movements’ Perspectives on the AUKUS Military Pact Joseph Gerson IPB/AEPF/CPDCS Webinar – October 8, 2021 Let me begin by thanking IPB and the Asia-Europe People’s Forum for their inspired leadership in bringing together our incipient coalition and for organizing today’s webinar. To state the obvious, even as Joe Biden will be meeting virtually with … Read more

How China threat narratives feed anti-Asian racism and how to fight back

July 3, 2021 by Sam

How China threat narratives feed anti-Asian racism and how to fight back We analyze how the recent trend of inflated “China threat” narratives is feeding anti-Asian racism, the interests driving this trend, and outline a potential counter narrative strategy. We distinguish between the inflated China threat narratives that are most likely to feed racism, and … Read more

Biden in Europe: To Contain China, Restructuring the Global Disorder.

June 21, 2021 by Sam

President Biden’s European sojourn has been a signal effort to restructure the global disorder to reinforce U.S. hegemony and to contain and manage China’s rise.

U.S. vs. China: A Capitalist Globalization Divided but Not Transformed?

June 14, 2021 by Sam

U.S. vs. China: A Capitalist Globalization Divided but Not Transformed? by Andrew Lichterman.* Text of a presentation at the Asia Pacific Working Group webinar, “The U.S.-China competition and its impact on the people caught in the middle,” June 9, 2021. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 68-32 to pass the Endless Frontier Act, framed as bolstering … Read more

60+ Orgs: Cold War with China is a Dangerous and Self-Defeating Strategy

May 17, 2021 by Sam

60+ Orgs: Cold War with China is a Dangerous and Self-Defeating Strategy WASHINGTON — In response to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s recent vote to advance the Strategic Competition Act of 2021 (SCA), and reports that it will receive a Senate floor vote this week, 64 organizations said: We, the undersigned organizations that represent millions … Read more

US-China Cold War Could Lead to a More Dangerous Nuclear Standoff

April 26, 2021 by Sam

US-China Cold War Could Lead to a More Dangerous Nuclear Stand-off NEW YORK, Apr 26 2021 (IPS) – Despite the negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), we are confronted by the increasing dangers of great power war, even nuclear war. Instead of making necessary investments to ensure public health, reverse climate … Read more

New Cold War U.S / Japanese Summit: Containing China & Reinforcing Hegemony

April 24, 2021 by Sam

New Cold War U.S / Japanese Summit: Containing China & Reinforcing Hegemony The existential truth is that the U.S. and China are caught in the Thucydides Trap, the historic pattern of inevitable tension between rising and declining powers that have too often climaxed in catastrophic war. Amidst the national fixation on the outcome of the … Read more

Solidarity with Fast Opposing Okinawan Human Remains to Build New U.S. Base at Heneko

February 22, 2021 by Sam

Friends, The English language edition of Asahi Shimbun recently carried the article reporting that human remains of victims of the catastrophic battle of Okinawa, which claimed a quarter of the island’s population, have been found in the land being mined for landfill for the construction of a new massive U.S. military base at Heneko. Following … Read more

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