Eastern Asia

Taiwan: Washington Plays with Dragon’s Fire

Tensions continued to build between the United States and China with the recent trip of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan against Beijing’s warnings. The unfolding row is depicted with immense ambiguity by the Western media in what is otherwise a clear-cut case of America violating China’s sovereignty. US publication Newsweek in […]

Welcome to Video – the Fight against Child Pornography in South Korea

In March 2018 a joint task force of law enforcement officers from the USA, UK and South Korea took down Welcome to Video, a South Korean-based child pornography website hosted on the darknet. The seizure of the site was the result of one of the largest operations against child pornography ever launched. According to the […]

China Defies US Sanctions with Computer Chip Breakthrough

The Western media lamented China’s most recent breakthrough in computer chip manufacturing, achieving standards in production that were thought impossible because of sanctions imposed by the United States specifically designed to stifle Chinese advances. A report from early July by CNBC would discuss these sanctions. In their article, “US mulls fresh bid to restrict chipmaking […]

Japan Faces Catastrophic Consequences of its anti-Russian Sanctions

While the US and its allies in their Russophobic frenzy are actively discussing tougher anti-Russian sanctions and, in particular, the possibility of limiting the price of Russian oil, the said Western sanctions policy is doing more and more damage to the Western countries themselves. And this is already particularly evident in the global energy market, […]

“Return of the Killer Fishermen”: Two More Ghosts are Coming for Moon Jae-in

Hot on the heels of the scandal associated with a murder in the Yellow Sea and another unfolding in connection with it (also tied to the DPRK), the future looks even more unpleasant for Moon Jae-in and his circle. On November 2, 2019, two North Korean sailors in their twenties crossed the maritime border and […]

Republic of Korea and the Death of Shinzo Abe

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022 is the first murder of a politician of this rank in the history of post-war Japan. Neither the assassination of Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma, hacked to death by right-wing schoolboy Yamaguchi Otoya in 1960, nor the coup and subsequent suicide of Yukio […]

“President Moon, Where Were You for Six Hours?”

This author has previously written about the clouds gathering over the Moon Jae-in administration as they try to investigate the incident in the Yellow Sea. Recall that on June 16, the Coast Guard Service and the South Korean Ministry of Defense officially announced that there were actually no grounds for the previously advertised version of […]