Asia Pacific

The White House Summit With Japan and the Philippines Is a Big Deal

Maya Krainc / Responsible Statecraft Apr 10, 2024 Experts say the “celebration” of Japanese rearmament risks inflaming tensions in the Pacific. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Asia Pacific

The South China Sea Resource Wars

Joshua Frank / TomDispatch Sep 15, 2023 It's not only about fossil fuels. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Pentagon’s Spoiling for Another War, Just Not With Iran

Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch Jun 3, 2019 While military officials are unenthusiastic about another Mideast war, they are setting their sights on another type of war in another locale entirely. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Are the Days of U.S. Hegemony Finally Numbered?

Sharmini Peries / The Real News Network May 8, 2019 A burgeoning alliance between China and Russia threatens to upend the global order, University of Kent professor Richard Sakwa argues. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

China-U.S. Ties Fraying Amid Acrimony Over Trade, Politics

CHRISTOPHER BODEEN / The Associated Press Oct 23, 2018 Both sides are trading increasingly barbed accusations over human rights and global hegemony, with no clear resolution in sight. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

U.S. and China Spawn a New Great-Power Naval Rivalry

Alfred W. McCoy / TomDispatch Apr 9, 2018 Amid the intense coverage of Russia and North Korea, another struggle between superpowers is playing out quietly in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

China Policy [a cartoon from the United Arab Emirates]

Paresh Nath, The Khaleej Times, UAE / Cagle Cartoons Feb 15, 2017 Dig deeper

Donald Trump Faces Four Looming Flashpoints

By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch Jan 18, 2017 North Korea, the South China Sea, the Baltic Sea region and the Middle East are primed to explode early in his presidency. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

China Claims Some New Islands Prove They Own the South China Sea

Jeff Danziger / Truthdig Jul 13, 2016 Dig deeper

Twenty-First-Century Energy Wars

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Jul 10, 2014 The world is aflame with new or intensifying conflicts that appear to be independent events, driven by their own unique and idiosyncratic circumstances. But look more closely and they share several key characteristics -- notably, a witch’s brew of ethnic, religious, and national antagonisms that have been stirred to the boiling point by a fixation on energy. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Danger Waters

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Jan 12, 2012 In 2012 and beyond, energy and conflict will be bound ever more tightly together, lending increasing importance to the key geographical flashpoints in our resource-constrained world. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )