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Marsha Blackburn's Taiwan visit
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Marsha Blackburn’s Taiwan Visit Amid Heightened Sino-US Bi-Lateral Tensions: China Vows Retaliation

Dr. Kankana DebnathAugust 30, 20220

US Senator Marsha Blackburn's Taiwan visit has heightened Sino-US bi-lateral tensions. Blackburn met President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday. It is the second visit by members of US Congress since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip earlier this month. It has raised tensions with China across the Taiwan strait. She arrived in Taipei on a U.S. military aircraft and was welcomed by Douglas Hsu, Director General of Taiwan's Foreign Affairs Ministry. The visit and Blackburn’s remarks Senator Marsha Blackburn's Taiwan visit, heightened tensions because of China's threats to acquire Taiwan as its integral territory. Taiwan is considered as US’s strongest partner in the Indo-Pacific. These regular high-level visits to Taipei are long-standing U.S. policy according to Blackburn’s statement. She also ...

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South Korea increases defense supplies
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South Korea Increases Defense Supplies: President Yoon Targets Becoming Top Supplier

Dr. Kankana DebnathAugust 24, 20220

South Korea’s President, Yoon Suk Yeol has completed his 100 days in office. During this time he has expressed his plans to make Korea one of the world’s top four weapons suppliers. He increased South Korea's defence budget, wishing to join the top exporters league along with the US, Russia and France. South Korea increases its defence supplies, leading to strategic industrialization making it a defensive powerhouse. South Korea’s global status as a military supplier In 2021, South Korea ranked 10th in the world in arms transfers according to the SIPRI. The value of arms export in South Korea is valued at $566 million. South Korea has already taken steps to achieve its top four ambitions by signing its biggest-arms deal with Poland. The deal was made with almost 1,000 K2 tanks, 600 ...

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Bald Eagle Gnaws, Dragon Bears Out Claws: China Surrounds Taiwan After Pelosi’s Visit

Agamapar ChadhaAugust 4, 20220

China, eager to unite Taiwan with itself, has been denied the US. Over the recent weeks, tensions between the two nations have been escalating further. The US had announced the use o diplomatic intervention, with  Nancy Pelosi being sent as a person. The Official statement of Chinese officials gave the US a simple “If the US continues to go down the wrong path, the US will have to pay an unbearable price.” The use seems to have paid the price after Nancy’s less than 24-hour visit as the Chinese military has encircled Taiwan with military drills as a show of force or target practice before going to war like their Russian brethren. After Pelosi’s subsequent visit to reassure American support towards Taiwan by saying, “Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy America'

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One China Policy: How US Balances Between China, Taiwan Dispute

Snehashish RoyMay 24, 20220

The President of the United States Joe Biden, in his Japan visit, said that the US will militarily intervene if China tries to invade Taiwan. The White House on Monday, however, said that Biden had “reiterated our One China Policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait” along with considering the US's commitment under the Taiwan Relations Act, which ensures Taiwan with military assistance from the US for defense. US's One China Policy The One China Policy, proposed by the United States, is the basis of its longstanding relationship with Beijing. The US severed its diplomatic ties with the Taiwan's Republic of China and joined hands with the People's Republic of China in Beijing in 1979 under this policy. “The People’s Republic of China and the United St...

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