• Kaja Kallas
  • Moussa Faki Mahamat
  • Adrian Zenz
  • Matthew Kroenig
  • Andriy Yermak
  • Vitaly Savelyev
  • Oleksandr Korniyenko
  • Dainius Kreivys
View All
IPSE'S AUTHORS LAST 24h
Check all the Authors in the last 24h
IPSEs IN THE LAST 24H
  • Benjamin Netanyahu
    Benjamin Netanyahu “No amount of pressure … will stop Israel from defending itself and achieving its war objectives. Eighty years ago in the Holocaust, the Jewish people were totally defenceless against those who sought our destruction. No nation came to our aid. I pledge here today from Jerusalem on this Holocaust Remembrance Day: If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone. But we know we are not alone because countless decent people around the world support our just cause.” 1 hour ago
  • Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin “We know what the exorbitance of such ambitions leads to. Russia will do everything to prevent a global clash. But at the same time, we will not allow anyone to threaten us. Our strategic forces are always in a state of combat readiness.” 1 hour ago
  • Daoud Kuttab
    Daoud Kuttab “Throughout this Israeli war on Gaza, there hasn't been a warning publicly made by the US that Israel has heeded. It is indeed unclear to what extent such warnings are just optics of putting pressure on the Israeli government while continuing to support its every move. In this sense, one should take with a grain of salt reports that the Biden administration is holding off one shipment of weapons to Israel to pressure it into halting the full-scale invasion of Rafah.” 19 hours ago
  • Bernie Sanders
    Bernie Sanders “The US must now use ALL its leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, the end of the attacks on Rafah, and the immediate delivery of massive amounts of humanitarian aid to people living in desperation. Our leverage is clear. Over the years, the United States has provided tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Israel.” 20 hours ago
  • Lloyd Austin
    Lloyd Austin “We've been very clear … from the very beginning that Israel shouldn't launch a major attack into Rafah without accounting for and protecting the civilians that are in that battlespace. We've not made a final determination on how to proceed with that shipment [of weapons].” 20 hours ago
  • Vuk Vuksanović
    Vuk Vuksanović “This visit [Xi Jinping in Belgrade] shows that Serbia has exchanged Russia for China went it comes to its main partner to bargain with the West. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine placed the Serbo-Russian relationship under close monitoring, so the government sees a benefit in playing the Chinese card more often now since it's deemed to be less provocative. The Balkans, and Serbia in particular, have become even more interesting for China now that one branch of the Belt and Road Initiative through Russia and Belarus was effectively cut off with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” 20 hours ago
  • Aleksandar Vucic
    Aleksandar Vucic “I told him [Xi Jinping] that as the leader of a great power he will be met with respect all over the world, but the reverence and love he encounters in our Serbia will not be found anywhere else. When it comes to cooperation with Beijing, the sky is the limit.” 20 hours ago
View All IPSEs inserted in the Last 24h

#Western Pacific

Page with all the IPSEs stored in the archive with the tag #Western Pacific linked to them.
The IPSEs are presented in chronological order based on when the IPSEs have been pronounced.

Wei Dongxu
Wei Dongxu

“AUKUS will bring more unstable factors to the Western Pacific since the trio may have more provocative actions. The US is trying to rope in more countries into the Western Pacific and Indo-Pacific regions to contain its strategic competitors. This may have a negative impact on China's maritime security. Against this backdrop, the China-Russia joint naval drill includes new subjects and displays high levels of mutual trust. China has a strong and reliable partner in the Western Pacific: Russia. This time, China has sent its most advanced 10,000-ton-class Type 055 large destroyer, while Russia dispatched the main force of its Pacific Fleet. This demonstrates that China and Russia attach great importance to defense cooperation.”

author
Beijing-based military analyst
19 Oct 2021 8 7
Read More
Holmes Liao
Holmes Liao

“The PLA Rocket Force believes hypersonic weapons possess powers of deterrence unmatched by nuclear weapons that can alter the strategic balance and affect an opponent's intent and determination. Indeed, China's early interest in developing a hypersonic defense system demonstrates its concern over the U.S.'s development of hypersonic weapons. As a result, concerns over U.S. hypersonic weapons' development and missile deployments, along with revisions to the MTCR that enable allies and partners like Taiwan, Japan, and Australia to build long-range land-based offensive capabilities, could combine to alter Beijing's strategic calculus on arms control. President Reagan's secretary of state, George Shultz, believed that the U.S. deployment of short-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe played a key role in driving the former Soviet Union to join INF negotiations [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]. U.S. deployment of hypersonic weapons on either one of the Western Pacific island chains could induce Beijing to perceive a change in the strategic balance to its disadvantage, and compel it to participate in arms control negotiations with the U.S., Russia, and potentially other nuclear weapons states.”

author
Expert in U.S. aerospace industries and former adjunct distinguished lecturer at Taiwan’s War College
08 Oct 2021 17 6
Read More
Tsai Ing-wen
Tsai Ing-wen

“Taiwan lies along the first island chain, which runs from northern Japan to Borneo; should this line be broken by force, the consequences would disrupt international trade and destabilize the entire western Pacific. In other words, a failure to defend Taiwan would not only be catastrophic for the Taiwanese; it would overturn a security architecture that has allowed for peace and extraordinary economic development in the region for seven decades. Taiwan does not seek military confrontation. It hopes for peaceful, stable, predictable, and mutually beneficial coexistence with its neighbors. But if its democracy and way of life are threatened, Taiwan will do whatever it takes to defend itself.”

author
President of Taiwan
05 Oct 2021 6 3
Read More
Sidharth Kaushal
Sidharth Kaushal

“China has been building a capacity over the last two decades to deny the US significant freedom of action in the western Pacific. That started with long-range anti-ship missiles, but now there is a growing naval capacity - and it has reached the point where the US is only viable because it has allies in the region.”

author
Research fellow at the Rusi think tank
29 Sep 2021 5 4
Read More
Wu Qiang
Wu Qiang

“Xi [Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping] is likely planning to make a definite move to annex, or, in the CCP's [Chinese Communist Party] terminology, 'unify with', the democratic island of Taiwan in the next five years. Beijing is looking at speeding up a resolution of the Taiwan issue during Xi's third term as president. This means that, over the next few years, the Taiwan issue will become the most important story in the Western Pacific. It is a focal issue that will trigger changes in Sino-U.S. relations sooner rather than later, and will be a flashpoint for Sino-U.S. conflict. Beijing is facing unprecedented military tensions in its backyard, a security situation that the CCP really didn't want to see. Most of this revolves around Taiwan, which is the core goal of the national rejuvenation program by 2035.”

Rfa

author
Former politics lecturer at Beijing's Tsinghua University
10 Mar 2021 7 4
Read More
Gregory Poling
Gregory Poling

“There is just not enough shared strategic interest or shared desire to accept risk on the military front. The way that the four different Quad members view their interests in the Indo-Pacific leads them to prioritise different areas. For instance, for the US, South China Sea and East China Sea are vital. Same goes for Japan. And for Australia, it also includes the Western Pacific. But for India, the Quad is about the Indian Ocean and South China Sea is a secondary theatre. So, while India may be willing to help with capacity-building, it’s not going to actually take risks that might involve violence or escalation in the South China Sea. It’s one thing for India to have a tense, antagonistic relationship with Beijing. It’s another for India to be part of an explicit coalition that seeks to contain Beijing. That would feel far too much like being part of a bloc. And India historically has resisted that.”

author
Director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies
25 Nov 2020 11 4
Read More
Robert O’Brien
Robert O’Brien

“Part of that is to give them the ability to push us back out of the Western Pacific, and allow them to engage in an amphibious landing in Taiwan. The problem with that is that amphibious landings are notoriously difficult. It’s not an easy task, and there’s also a lot of ambiguity about what the United States would do in response to an attack by China on Taiwan.”

author
US National Security Advisor
07 Oct 2020 4 5
Read More
Mike Pence
Mike Pence

“China is actively working on a comprehensive and coordinated campaign to undermine President Trump's agenda and the 2018 midterm elections. As a senior career member of our intelligence community recently told me, what the Russians are doing pales in comparison to what China is doing across this country. China wants nothing less than to push the United States of America from the Western Pacific and attempt to prevent us from coming to the aid of our allies.”

author
US Vice President
04 Oct 2018 3 5
Read More
IPSEs by Context
May
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
0102030405
06070809101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
IPSEs by City
IPSEs by Author
IPSEs by Entity
IPSEs by Country
arrow