Category: nuclear submarine

Macron Throws Mother of All Tantrums

Commentary After years of delays, cost blowouts, and subsequent crisis meetings with France’s Naval Group this September, Australia finally cancelled the disastrous program and instead opted for a U.S. or UK nuclear-powered submarine design to ensure national security was not further compromised. To use Australian parlance, that’s when French President Emmanuel Macron chucked the mother…


Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Move Changes Strategic Layout of Indo-Pacific Region

Commentary Recently, Australia signed with the United States and the United Kingdom a trilateral security pact called AUKUS, symbolizing that Australia has been strengthening its national defense after realizing the military threat from China. One: Exposure of Beijing’s ‘Advancing Eastward and Southward’ Strategy In the first half of 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) waged…


China Legislates to Transform a Province Into Free Trade Hub, Wants to Protect Military Bases: Economist

The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) passed a law to change its far southern province, Hainan, into a gigantic free trade port (FTP). But an economist pointed out that the actual intent behind creating the FTP (areas with little to no tax to encourage economic activity) may be to protect military bases. “The intention should include…