Maxime Marquette
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ANALYSIS: NATO 3.0, THE TRANSATLANTIC REBALANCING THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
On June 18, 2026, NATO's Defence Ministers gathered in Brussels for the last ministerial session before the Ankara summit. This was no ordinary meeting.…
COMMENTARY: Xi Purges His Own Army — And Calls It Loyalty
On June 17, 2026, at the National Defense University in Beijing, Zhang Shengmin — vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the sole general…
COLUMN: China Wants 9 Aircraft Carriers — And It Has Nothing to Do With Defense
In May 2026, satellite images captured above the Dalian shipyard in northeastern China revealed something Western strategists had been dreading for years: a 286-meter…
ANALYSIS: The AI Boom Is Choking East Asia — Kaohsiung and Yongin Pay the Price
On June 19, 2026, journalist Yujie Xue of Nikkei Asia published an article with a sober title but devastating content: "The AI boom is…
DECODING: Chinese Chips via Singapore and Malaysia — The Bypass Worrying Washington
On June 20, 2026, researcher Jing Ge of the East Asia Forum published an analysis that passed almost unnoticed in the noise of the…
REPORT: Philippines-Canada, an Alliance Forged Against Beijing's Shadow
On June 11, 2026, David McGuinty, Canada's Minister of National Defence, and Gilberto Teodoro Jr., his Filipino counterpart, signed two documents in Ottawa that,…
ANALYSIS: The MIIT Plan 2026-2028, Beijing's Industrial Weapon Against the West
On June 18, 2026, seven Chinese government ministries — led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), with the National Development and…
INVESTIGATION: China Can Strike Australia — And the Threat Is Growing, Lowy Reveals
On June 15, 2026, the Lowy Institute — Australia's leading foreign policy think tank — published a report titled "Understanding the Chinese Military Threat…
DECODING: Japan "Offensive" — Beijing Attacks, Tokyo Responds, the Indo-Pacific Trembles
On June 22, 2026, the PLA Daily — the official mouthpiece of the People's Liberation Army and one of the rare media outlets whose…