The Geostrategic Importance of Taiwan by its Geography to The USA: Part 1
When Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, it also launched an attack on the Philippines, launching World War II in the Pacific. It was the first shot in the Japanese Empire's campaign to assault and subjugate Southeast Asia in pursuit of its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The planes took out from Taiwan, which was then under Japanese military control. It served as the starting point for attacks on both the Philippines and the D…
Siberian Geography and Chinese and Russian Strategic Goals
West is the biggest importer of Russian LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) but after Crimean annexation with Russia caused a trace of bitterness in the Russian European relationship. Russia changed the pivot using Siberian geography. They called this project “The Power of Siberia” by building an enormous pipeline “From Siberia to China” for feeding the Chinese snowballing energy appetite. The initiation was started by President Vladimir Putin to counter the…
The Geographical Niche for Strategically Goals: South China Sea
If the world’s powers are magnetized toward the South China Sea because of the growing power of China then it is the exact answer. If we observe the USA behavior, we observed that enmity or aggression is not new. The first incident occurred in 1998 when USA’s reconnaissance plane crashed with the Chinese fighter jet. Now this important gateway for commercial and merchant shipping and a subregion for economic and strategic subjects under Indo-Pacif…
