Eastern Asia

In the run-up to the VII Congress of the Workers’ Party of North Korea, the number of sensation news items about North Korea begins to predictably increase. Thus, on May 2 almost all central Russian media spread the news that, funerals and weddings had been banned during and in the run-up to the congress in North Korea, and if that wasn’t enough, so had “any gatherings of more than three.”
Here is a typical news example:

The first test flight of the Japanese experimental fighter X-2 conducted on April 22, 2106 did not go unnoticed by the mass media. The aircraft is a brainchild of one of the divisions of Mitsubishi Corporation. For the record: during WWII this corporation made a name by producing its famous A6M Zero fighter which dominated the sky over the Pacific Ocean for the first two years of the war.

The nuclear escalation on the Korean Peninsula prompted the People’s Republic of China to amplify its efforts to reboot the Six Party Talks. Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Hong Lei pointed out that UNSC resolution cannot resolve the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula and urged the parties to come back to the negotiation table.

Often, when people are first becoming personally acquainted with me and my political views, I will be asked point-blank: “Do you support North Korea?” I always respond, “No, I don’t support North Korea. I support all of Korea.”

With China joining the anti-North Korean sanctions and the alienation in relations between the two countries, the number of news articles aimed at aggravating this discord has increased yet again.

The South China Sea has been described in numerous western publications as the latest potential ‘flashpoint’ in the world’s geopolitical scene.

Over recent months I have often written about the potential of China’s strategic One Belt, One Road Eurasian and Asian infrastructure Great Project to act as a global economic transformer toward positive, sustained economic growth.

On 13-14 April, the Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, paid an official visit to China for the first time since he assumed his post in September 2015. The Government delegation arrived in China accompanied by thousands of Australian businessmen.

At the time of the ongoing inter-Korean crisis, we can draw attention to one of its aspects: how the South has been actively fanning the fears of new terrorist or spy scandals, which are apparently about to break out. This time it is not about cliche “Pyongyang hackers” but the activities of North Korean spies.

Five years have passed since the nuclear disaster at Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi. The aftermath of this disaster is still heavily affecting Japan. This catastrophe has almost put an end to the use of nuclear power in Japan, since the general public expressed fear and distrust towards all remaining nuclear power plants in Japan – both operational and those under construction.