Analytics | Asia

A state of emergency has been declared in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia. French special forces and the military were sent to stabilise the situation. The reasons for the local protests are a slightly different topic, the reasons are real, and the course of events is interesting to analyse, but we will talk about the geopolitical dimension of these events...

China considers the South China Sea its ‘internal’ sea and therefore claims many islands in the region. These islands are mostly Philippine. This is a simple explanation for the recent aggressive actions of Chinese ships and military exercises near these islands...

In the 1990s, Brzezinski and his team wrote that in the coming decades, Japan would face a choice of four possible strategies in its foreign policy...

In just one year, a number of Chinese political and military high-ranking officials have disappeared and later died due to illnesses or suicides. We deliberately do not take into account the disappearance of Chinese billionaires, reporters, and others, as there wouldn’t be enough space to list them all...

In the early 2000s, the pace of China’s economic growth, along with its geographic and demographic indicators, already provided grounds to predict that "China’s claims to redistribute global resources and spheres of influence" could move beyond "purely theoretical discussions"...