by Hidetoshi Azuma | Sep 4, 2015 | Monitor
Yesterday, the world witnessed China’s rapidly modernizing military on the 70th anniversary of the end of the World War Two at Tiananmen Square. The revelation of DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missiles, or “Guam Killer” in particular epitomized Beijing’s growing...
by Paul Hamill | Sep 17, 2012 | Monitor
Last month, former Secretary of State Jim Baker gave a wide ranging speech at the Arctic Imperative Summit. During the speech, entitled “The U.S.-Russian Relationship Vis-à-vis the Arctic Circle”, he spoke about the pending ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty....
by Lauren Haigler | Aug 14, 2012 | Monitor
Image courtesy DOD Despite the recent news that the number Senators vowing to vote against ratifying the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOTS) will derail its passage, this does not mean Law of the Sea is dead, as some have claimed. To use the words of US Chamber of Commerce...
by Matthew Wallin | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
This past week, Bruce Stokes and Richard Wike of the Pew Research Center wrote an op-ed for CNN discussing the results of Pew’s recent polling of America’s stature in certain parts of the world. Their title, “World to America: We want soft, not hard power” draws...
by Prachi Naik | Jul 27, 2012 | Monitor
A small two-square-mile island in the South China Sea is finding itself at the center of an alarming multistate power struggle. Yongxing Island, the largest of the Paracel Archipelago, has no indigenous inhabitants of its own and can only be remotely accessed by plane...
