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Strategic Approaches of Powers in Indo-Pacific

07

Apr

Indo-Pacific, Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, RCEP, South China Sea

Strategic Approaches of Powers in Indo-Pacific

PEJOURNAL - An expert on Security and Geopolitics, explaining the strategic approaches of powers in Indo-Pacific, stated: The Quad agreement with the withdrawal of Australia was suspended until 2010, but in the negotiations of the leaders of the four member states in the 2017 ASEAN meeting in Manila it was revived for military and diplomatic confrontation with China in the South China Sea. She added: Although in the statement of the recent virtual meeting, presidents of the four countries emphasized cooperation of the countries in establishing order in the East and South China Seas, as well as cooperation in controlling…

The entry of political intelligence into American foreign policy

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The Biden administration, unlike former US presidents, who also took over the leadership and hegemony of the United States at the inauguration, is taking over America from Trump that its world power has waned through a weakened foreign policy, its Covid effected economy is struggling to stand on its own two feet and democracy has stopped there. What we are witnessing in the United States these days is a political disgrace and a fundamental weakness in the foundation and structure of American democracy, which in the 2020 election confiscated 160 million American votes in the…

RCEP: The world’s largest commercial agreement and its consequences on global hegemony.

BY: Begona Arechalde PEJOURNAL - The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a project for the expansion of the free trade area in Asia and Oceania that began to be forged in 2012. After 8 years of negotiations, the ten ASEAN countries (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, that includes Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei), China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand reached an agreement on November 15 that encompasses 30% of the world’s GDP and 2.1 million people. The meeting, held by videoconference due to COVID-19 safety reasons, was attended by…