Pacific
Burmese Days, Revisited
08.02.2021
The (jade) elephant in the elaborate room housing the military coup in Myanmar had to be – what else – China. And the Tatmadaw – the Myanmar Armed Forces – knows it better than anyone.
Is news worth a lot or a little? Google and Facebook want to have it both ways
Facebook executive Simon Milner appears before the Senate committee via video link.
26.01.2021
Executives from Google and Facebook have told a Senate committee they are prepared to take drastic action
RCEP-Countries Create Asia-Pacific Free Trade Zone
15.01.2021
The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on 15 November 2020 establishes the world’s largest free trade area.
Papua New Guinea and Multipolarity
11.10.2017
Q: What is the context for Papua New Guinea to China's threat over Australian intervention in the South China Sea islands dispute , and its impact on the China-Australian bilateral relationship (read: trade)?
The Militaristic Rituals of North Korea
Source: Pixabay
15.09.2017
North Korea fired off some missiles the other day, raising tensions significantly in the Pacific region. They reportedly fired five missiles, with one failing to launch and three of the other four coming provocatively close to Japan.
North Korean Satellite and Sovereignty
12.09.2017
Launching the North Korean satellite seriously alarmed the whole world.
Japan & State Impulse: Part 3
16.08.2017
In 1945 Japan suffers the bad luck it had escaped a century before: it iwas invaded by a foreign power, the same one that had forced it, from 1853 on, to open itself to the world. For the first time in history, the country was defeated and foreigners occupied its territory
Japan & State Impulse: Part 2
15.08.2017
When the State retired from the management of the large enterprises it had created, these went on to be managed by the families of those who had collaborated with the government in the reconstruction of national power. Hence, the Mitsui, the Mitsubishi, the Satsuma, the Okura, the Furukawa, the Kuhari and the Asano became the great industrial entities.
Japan & State Impulse. Part 1
14.08.2017
If we consider a state impulse to be all the policies made by a State to create or increase and of the elements that make up the power of that State, there is no room for doubt that Japan was the State that, throughout history and most systematically, used this “tool” to build its national power. It constitutes the paradigmatic example of how through state impulse the threshold of power, even when starting off with completely unfavorable conditions.
