Posts Tagged ‘navy’
Fri Sep 16, 2011 16:03 GMT |
Following the release of two recent reports on Business Monitor Online, on the geopolitical implications of the souring diplomatic relationship between Turkey and Israel, Mark Schaltuper, Head of Europe Country Risk and Financial Markets hosts a panel of Europe, Middle East and North Africa analysts, as well as Business Monitor’s Head of Political Risk Analysis,… [Read more]

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Tags: aid vessel, Arab Spring, Bashar Assad, confrontation, Diplomacy, diplomatic ties, Egypt, Ehud Barak, flotilla, Gaza, Hosni Mubarak, israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, military, navy, north africa, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Podcast, Political Risk
Wed Aug 11, 2010 15:35 GMT |
Tensions have been rising in the South China Sea of late, and these are threatening to put strains on China’s relations with South East Asia and the US. Essentially, China has reiterated its long-standing claims over the whole of the South China Sea, including the Spratly and Paracel islands. Unsurprisingly, this sovereignty assertion is disputed… [Read more]
Tags: ASEAN, China, Dispute, Geopolitics, Hainan, islands, navy, Paracel, South China Sea, Spratly, Trade, US, Vietnam
Posted in: Asia, China, General, Geopolitics, oil and gas, Political Risk, US
Tue May 25, 2010 16:40 GMT |
One of the most oft-repeated axioms of Asian geopolitics is that there won’t be a new war on the Korean Peninsula because neither North and South Korea nor their principal backers (China and the US) want it to happen. The South and the US will not attack the North because that would lead to a… [Read more]
Tags: clash, Kim Jong Il, limited war, military, navy, North Korea, retaliation, scenarios, skirmish, South Korea, West Sea
Posted in: Asia, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk
Mon Feb 1, 2010 16:48 GMT |
Few people would dispute that the relationship between the US and China is the most important in the world, so much so that the term ‘Chimerica’ is used often nowadays to refer to the two countries as a single economy. Both sides generally benefit, if you overlook the huge US trade deficit with China, and… [Read more]
Tags: arms sales, China, Geopolitics, navy, Taiwan, US
Posted in: Asia, China, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk, US
Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:32 GMT |
As China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) celebrates its 60th anniversary today, one thing we can be reasonably sure of is that it will expand dramatically over the coming decades, as the country seeks to protect its global supply chains and become a world power. China’s economy has become more open to international trade over… [Read more]
Tags: China, Indian Ocean, navy, piracy, trade routes
Posted in: Asia, China, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk