China

From Our Wives to Our Lives: Guerrilla Warfare Throughout History

The concept of guerrilla warfare is not decades, but many centuries old, with earliest writing on the subject by Sun Tzu dating back to the 6th Century BC. Some guerrilla tactics are probably as old as the first armed groups of cavemen, being a natural evolution of conflict between groups of disproportionate sizes. Popular Che… Read More »From Our Wives to Our Lives: Guerrilla Warfare Throughout History

Why Won’t China Stop North Korea?

Benjamin Lai is an expert on modern Chinese military and the author of  The Dragon’s Teeth. Here, he talks about why China continue to tolerate North Korea’s aggression.   On 11th February 2017, just as Donald Trump was entertaining Prime-Minister Abe of Japan with a round of golf, North Korea launched another ballistic missile as a means of… Read More »Why Won’t China Stop North Korea?

Nanking Massacre Denial – How the Far Right in Japan Kept Power

Benjamin Lai is an expert on modern Chinese military and the author of  The Dragon’s Teeth. Here, he talks about the startlingly far-right views of modern Japanese leaders. On 15th January, two New York University students posted a 10-minute homemade video on Weibo, China’s top blogger website highlighting the controversial reading material that they had… Read More »Nanking Massacre Denial – How the Far Right in Japan Kept Power