Taiwan

Israel Conducted Lebanon Pager Attack Fearing Hezbollah was Onto the Operation

September 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Israel, Lebanon, Terrorism

by Barik Ravad, published on Axios, September 18, 2024 Israel decided to blow up the pager devices carried by Hezbollah members in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday out of concern its secret operation might have been discovered by the group, three U.S. officials told Axios. Why it matters: The attack took place as tensions rise between Israel and Hezbollah, which[…]

U.S. rejects China’s Proposal to Ban First Use of Nuclear Weapons

May 21, 2024 Judith Bello Asia, China, Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons

by John Wojcik, Mark Gruenberg and Ben Chacko, published on People’s World, May 16, 2024, The U.S. has dismissed Chinese calls for a no-first-use treaty between nuclear weapons states, saying it has questions about China’s “sincerity.” The outright dismissal of China’s proposal followed a major speech in which Biden announced radical tariffs of up to 100 percent, on steel imports[…]

Traveling to Prove China Is Not Our Enemy

November 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Belt and Road, China, Citizen Diplomacy, New Cold War, Taiwan, UNAC on the Road

by Dee Knight, November 14, 2023 “China Is Not Our Enemy” was the theme of a ten-day visit to China in early November. The visit was designed to find and highlight a path to common prosperity and a shared future between China, the United States, and the rest of the world. Visiting China made me believe peace is possible. We[…]

War Looks Just as War Looks: Dismal and Ugly

November 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot, Imperialism, Korea, Middle East Wars, Neocolonialism, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Vijay Prashad, published on The Tricontinental Institute, November 2, 2023 It is impossible to look away from what the Israeli government is doing to Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. Waves of Israeli aircraft pummel Gaza, destroying communications networks and thereby preventing families from reaching each other, journalists from reporting on the destruction, and[…]

Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China

April 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia Pivot, China, Taiwan

by Sara Flounders, published in CovertAction Magazine, April 27, 2023 While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. The military and economic threats on both China and Russia are a desperate bid to quash the emergence[…]

U.S. Uses Taiwan As a Pawn in War For China

April 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia Pivot, Censorship and Propaganda, China, Global Economics, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 4, 2023 While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. The military and economic threats on both China and Russia are a desperate bid to quash the emergence[…]

“Provoked” NATO Expansion, “Unprovoked” Ukraine War, and the Dire “China Threat”

April 3, 2023 Judith Bello China, NATO, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine

by Felix Abt, published on CovertAction Magazine, March 15, 2023 Claims made by transatlantic politicians and their media partners turn reality upside down—and would baffle even George Orwell. U.S. President Joe Biden, Western politicians and their media partners agree that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” The president of the country notorious for its numerous unprovoked wars of aggression called[…]

How The United States Is Preparing For Imminent War With China

March 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Audio Podcast, China

By Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, March 13, 2023 US aggression toward China is escalating and China is shedding its usual restraint to more clearly call out this aggression and warn the US not to overstep its red lines. Clearing the FOG speaks with K. J. Noh, an activist, journalist and scholar on the geopolitics of the Asian continent.[…]

“Stop US interference”: Interview with the Labour Party of Taiwan

February 19, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, China, Interview, Japan, Taiwan, U.S. Aggression

by Wim De Ceukelaire Interview with Wu Rong-yuan, published on No Cold War, February 2023 For those who are interested in a deeper understanding of the history of multiple occupations of Taiwan throughout the 20th century and U.S. intervention to use Taiwan as a control point and block Chinese independence. I hope many will take the trouble to ready this. […]

Making Taiwan the Ukraine of the East

February 19, 2023 UNAC Editor China, Taiwan

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, February 9, 2023 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila on Feb. 2, where they agreed to expand the U.S. military presence in the country. In a joint statement, the two governments agreed to “announce their plans to accelerate the full implementation of[…]