Oriental Review

“Germany of Asia” looking to restore its sovereignty

By ORIENTAL REVIEW

While the new resident of the White House has been acquiring a taste for military adventures overseas, the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, visited Moscow last Thursday for his 17th talk with Vladimir Putin. But of course their normal economic agenda, intended to hammer out the final details of some painful bilateral issues, was […]

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Forget Pueblo, remember the 52,246 dead Americans of the Korean War

By Atul BHARDWAJ (India)

In mid April, when the English protestors were celebrating the death of Margret Thatcher, singing, “Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is Dead” – the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Beijing, humming, ‘Pyongyang, Pyongyang! Kim Jong Un’ is damned’ – discussing with the top Chinese leadership ways to halt North Korea’s nuclear march. […]

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Why Washington Doesn’t Like Russia Exporting Gas to East Asia?

By Konstantin PENZEV (Russia)

The world is becoming more multipolar. But the United States is only one of its poles. It has a huge navy, and it is striving desperately to gain control over all of the world’s oceans and, therefore, the major cargo routes. The United States is also the world’s financial center. The US dollar functions as […]

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A Bomb in the Year of the Snake

By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR (India)

Everything about North Korea has to be speculative. That has been and is still the main problem. But one speculation seems to be ending, finally. It concerns China’s apparent ambivalence about North Korea’s nuclear program. Increasingly, Beijing is coming out on the ‘right side of history’. Which in turn would unleash a host of profound […]

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