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When the last US soldier left Taiwan in 1979, Washington’s grip did not loosen – it simply changed shape, shifting from barracks and warships to classrooms, newsrooms, and the minds of a generation.

From Okinawa’s farmers to the Philippines’ ‘Magnificent 12’, Asia’s peoples have confronted US militarism before – a tradition more urgent now as the New Cold War arrives on their shores.

As the US celebrates $95.3 billion in military funding for Israel, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the US, we unpack the US Indo-Pacific strategy and what’s at stake.

This dossier looks at how the US-led New Cold War against China is destabilising Northeast Asia, focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, and Japan.

Recently, the US, Japan, and South Korea held their first-ever joint aerial drill, a few months after their leaders met at Camp David ‘to inaugurate a new era of trilateral partnership’. Although North Korea is…

Semiconductor chips are the building blocks of the world’s most advanced technologies and all modern electronics. In recent years, the US has been waging an aggressive campaign to arrest China’s technological development, which it views…

On 2 February 2023, President Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Austin in Manila, where they agreed to expand the US military’s presence in the country. This forms part of a…

With Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, it is clear that a new kind of madness is seeping into global political discourse, a poisonous fog that suffocates reason. This fog, which has long marinated in the…