Military
Unless you really wanted to start the world’s first nuclear war, it does not make sense to splash billions of dollars in the WMD (weapon of mass destruction). Let’s forget China for a moment. Does the U.S., the world’s military superpower, even dare to attack North Korea with conventional, let alone nuclear weapons? Kim Jong-Un […]
... written on Sep 22 2021France has learned the hard way how its allies and friends stabbed it in the back. It is so mad and furious that it has ordered the withdrawal of its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia in an apparent protest against some secret backroom deals involving the United States, Australia and Britain to supply the […]
... written on Sep 18 2021Hollywood has produced many films about rogue generals, rebels or terrorists who seized nuclear missile sites or weapons with plans to nuke Russia or the U.S., hoping to trigger retaliations and start the first nuclear world war. Over time, military superpowers have implemented fail-safe to avoid any human error or unauthorized attack that could lead […]
... written on Sep 15 2021When the U.S. decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after a 20-year war that it could not win from the beginning, many Western countries said it was a mistake. Even its closest ally, the United Kingdom, has criticised the American decision to leave Afghanistan as a “mistake” that has handed the Taliban “momentum”, not to mention a return of terror […]
... written on Sep 11 2021As the U.S. military’s last C17 aircraft left Kabul airport, marking the end of a 20-year war in Afghanistan that the superpower could not win, it has also left something there – a fragile democracy. Over the last two decades, the U.S. government spent huge sums of money to create a stable democracy in the alien land, but it appears […]
... written on Sep 03 2021Since 2001, the United States has spent US$2.26 trillion in Afghanistan, according to Brown University’s calculations in its “Costs of War Project”. Nearly US$1 trillion – the biggest chunk – was spent on Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget. Basically, OCO was special funding created after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 for overseas war […]
... written on Aug 21 2021HMS Queen Elizabeth is not only the United Kingdom’s latest aircraft carrier, but also the most expensive flagship in the British Royal Navy. Costing roughly £3 billion (US$4 billion) to build, the aircraft carrier made headlines in 2017 after a faulty shaft seal forced it to be sent back for repair at Portsmouth. Ordered in […]
... written on Jul 11 2021As China marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Chinese Communist Party with demonstration of heavy military hardware, including J-20 stealth fighter jets, Z-8L 15-ton-class helicopter and Type 99A battle tank, President Xi Jinping unleashed his warning – China will never allow any foreign force to bully, oppress or subjugate the Chinese […]
... written on Jul 03 2021On the eve of a nationwide second full-scale lockdown, China has deliberately sent not one, not two, but sixteen Xi’an Y-20 and Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft into Malaysian air space near the East Malaysia state of Sarawak. Coincidentally, the next day (June 1), King Sultan Abdullah of Pahang conveyed greetings to the Royal Malaysian Air […]
... written on Jun 02 2021First, it was the race to become the first to produce Covid-19 vaccine. Now, it’s the race to become the first to vaccinate the entire population. As China, the world’s second largest economy, tries to catch up to Europe and the United States, a new record is being broken again. After hitting 15 million people, […]
... written on May 30 2021
