Eastern Asia

US Media continues its campaign against “fake news,” urging people to only listen to mainstream, pro-western capitalist news sources, despite their documented record of factual inaccuracies.

The ascension of Donald Trump to the US Presidency has introduced an additional element of uncertainty to the conduct of world affairs. Judging from Mr Trump’s rhetoric, and some of his initial executive orders, such as withdrawing the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proverbial cat has been set among the geopolitical pigeons.

The evaluation of various episodes of the war in the Asia-Pacific region, which began in 1937 (or, as some argue, even earlier in 1931) and soon transformed in a part of the Second World War, does not leave the playing field of the big political game in the Asia-Pacific region. We repeatedly see such topics as the “Nanjing Massacre,” “comfort women” being mentioned in various discussions and publications.

Against the backdrop of the scandalous stories about Russian hackers, the author returns to the topic of North Korean hackers seeing as the body evidence for charges in both cases is characterized by quasi arguments.
The story began with an ordinary list of scandalous news in March 2016, when the South Korean intelligence service reported an attempt to hack the network managing the transportation system made by hackers from the DPRK.

2017 will be the year that sees the onset of radical changes in the world order and they will be comprehensive. In one way or another they will affect the domestic and foreign policy, as well as economic development strategies of all countries.
The events of recent months in the leading world power have been the clearest evidence that the problems that have long been accumulating have finally provoked the process of global change.

2017 will be the year that sees the onset of radical changes in the world order and they will be comprehensive. In one way or another they will affect the domestic and foreign policy, as well as economic development strategies of all countries.
The events of recent months in the leading world power have been the clearest evidence that the problems that have long been accumulating have finally provoked the process of global change.

Triumphalism followed the election of US President Donald Trump, particularly among those opposed to US foreign policy under US President Barack Obama. In particular, hope was rekindled that America would withdraw from the many, provocative conflicts it was cultivating, ranging from the Middle East to East Asia.
However, triumphalism and hope are now dashed, as the new US administration moves clearly and in earnest to not only continue on with these confrontations, but expand them.

There is no doubt that 2016 can be called the year of the North Korean rocket engineers: two nuclear tests and a large number of missile launches forced a number of experts (including the author) to abandon their sceptical opinion on the DPRK’s capabilities. However, it looks like 2017 will be rich in interesting news in this respect.

Such phrases as “the current year brings the world a set of new and tough-to-predict challenges” can often be found in articles attempting to predict the upcoming year of our ongoing history.
The banality of such phrases can not exclude the fact that they can be applied to 2017, perhaps, more so than ever before in the last two-three decades.

While the new US president, Donald Trump, might have thought deeply about making “America great again”, the policies (read: “America First”) he has outlined to achieve this objective are likely to cause other consequences, most important of which is America’s further decline in the global arena and subsequent rise of China to what the latter’s leadership has implicitly called ‘playing the world leader.’ To this end, China is expected to receive significant support from both its rivals and allies.