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Vietnam Approves $67 Billion High-Speed Railway Project; China & Japan To Compete For Lucrative Deal

Vietnam’s National Assembly has approved the construction of a transformative high-speed railway connecting Hanoi, the northern capital, to Ho Chi Minh City, the southern...

80 Years Of Operation Fu-Go: When Japan Transformed Balloons Into ‘ICBMs’ To Turn U.S. Into An ‘Inferno’ 

When Japan first launched balloon bombs at the United States during World War II, they technically became the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles. Though...

Sinking Of Royal NZ Navy Warship Due To Series Of Human Errors, Failure To Disengage Auto-Pilot: Interim Report

The sinking of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) vessel HMNZS Manawanui off the coast of Samoa in October has been attributed to human...

Another Country With Nukes? As Trump Renews His “Love Affair” With Kim, Will South Korea Go Nuclear?

Though President-elect Donald Trump remains committed to continuing the Biden Administration’s policy of attaching high priority to peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, of...

China-Taiwan Conflict: U.S. OKs More Military Aid For Taiwan Including F-16 Spares; Tensions Boil In Indo-Pacific

The United States approved a potential US$385 million military aid package for Taiwan amid high tensions triggered by reports that the Pentagon was making...