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Can one of the most powerful world bodies be expanded to respond to the needs of the emerging world order? Lots of debates have taken place in this context. Countries all over the globe do not deny this emerging imperative, but the crucial question then rises why this has not been realized? As deliberated in the 8th intergovernmental meeting of the United Nations last week, the G-4 (Brazil, India, Germany and Japan) countries further reiterated their demand to expand the crucial body or the world has to confront the challenges at its ‘own peril’...
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA | 17.04.2012 |
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Confronted by a China that has eclipsed the economy of Japan, thus achieving the distinction of being the world’s second-largest economy, the days of the United States acting as a major powerbroker in Asia is coming to an end...
Wayne MADSEN | 07.08.2011 |
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Everybody, including the supporters of nuclear energy, agrees that the future belongs to renewable energy sources. At the same time everybody understands that nuclear energy is also necessary today. The details of transition to the energy of the future are uncertain; it is not clear if the plans of Europe’s “nuclear renaissance” will be scaled down following the disaster on Hokkaido...
Natalia MEDEN | 27.03.2011 |
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A typical technology of deception is to tell the truth, but not the whole truth. The coverage of the recent catastrophes at Japan's Fukushima 1 and Fukushima 2 nuclear power plants seems to be built on the above principle... Finally, the ongoing drama brings to the spotlight the concept by which advanced technologies coupled to anthropogenic destabilizing factors can play the role of a particular form of weapons of mass destruction...
Victor KOVALEV | 15.03.2011 |
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Trying to distort the results of WW II, revenge seekers in Japan hope that people's memory will fail them. A series of court hearings took place in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk between the 25 th -31 st of December, 1949, to try twelve members of the Japanese Kwantung Army as war criminals for manufacturing and using biological weapons in 1938-1945 in China... Half a century has passed, and having abandoned all commitments it took at the Crimea Conference and documented in a three-party deal on the Far East issues (from February 11, 1945), as well as in other landmark documents signed followingthe end of WW II, the US decided to support Japan in its territorial claims to Russia...
Yuriy RUBTSOV | 04.03.2011 |
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Recently Japan relaunched the campaign of claims to Russia's Kuril Islands - Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Khabomai. The impression is that Tokyo is under the delusion that it is entitled to its own version of the settlement in the wake of World War II and even hopes to draw benefits based on the unilateralist approach. These days, Japanese politicians may be dissatisfied with the sentences handed out by the Tokyo Trials which put a dot in World War II in the Far East, but any attempts to tailor the outcome of the war by staking territorial claims to Russia are doomed to failure....
Yuriy RUBTSOV | 22.02.2011 |
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Japan is the only place on our planet where the problem of “northern territories” exists. Neither the UN, nor any other country agrees that Tokyo's territorial claims to the islands are grounded... Naoto Kan described President Dmitry Medvedev`s trip in November to the Kurils as "an unforgivable outrage", without stopping for a second to think that it was his statement that would better fit into this description... While Russian diplomats are being too politically correct to adequately answer insults, the whole world is watching the ongoing exchange of remarks, wondering how patient Moscow can be about the issue...
Elena PUSTOVOITOVA | 10.02.2011 |
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The recent Japanese protest marches in front of the Russian embassy — with yells and other violent expressions of rage — left the incredibly ugly impression of a mutiny in a psychiatric asylum... Chief of Japanese diplomacy Seiji Maehara will land in Moscow on February 10... Shouldn't Moscow spare itself the hassle after the offensive Japanese campaign over the so-called «Northern territories» and the top Japanese officials' slurs against Russian leaders?
Dmitriy SEDOV | 09.02.2011 |
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The United States’ relations with China and Russia will significantly influence the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific in the coming year... By the second half of 2010, the US made it clear it was “returning” to Asia. Washington began marshalling its old allies (Japan, South Korea, Australia) and its new “natural allies” (India, Indonesia), which was apparent in the extensive tours undertaken by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through the entire length and breadth of Asia...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 01.01.2011 |
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