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VOA Korea | While the provocative remarks of Chinese Ambassador to Korea Xing Haiming are shaking up relations between Korea and China, former high-ranking US officials urged South Korea to respond firmly to China's 'poor diplomacy'.....
Asahi | However, at the "Asian Security Conference (Changri-La Dialogue)" held in Singapore on the 2nd to 4th, the U.M. and China insisted that "dialogue is necessary",.....
PNA | The Philippines is on the right track in building up its defense capabilities, a former Pentagon official said, citing its potential to contribute to peace and “blunt” potential aggressions in the region.....
Die Welt | “Political adviser Elbridge Colby co-founded the Washington think tank ‘Marathon Initiative’ and worked under the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018 as deputy sub-secretary in the Pentagon....
The Asahi Shimbun | Elbridge Colby, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Trump administration, participated in the conference and felt a difference in the perception of the Ukraine issue between Western countries and the countries of the Global South, which consists of emerging and developing countries.....
ANC News | “Karen Davila talks to Former U.S.Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby for his thoughts on China's latest aggressive moves.”
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Politico EU | “In Colby’s view, the U.S. should have serious doubts about Europe’s ability to join painful economic sanctions against China in the event of war against Taiwan, which he said is currently the premise on which U.S. engagement with Europe is based.”...
Washington Examiner | There's a broader philosophical-political point Taiwan neglects here. As Taiwan strategist Elbridge Colby put it, "If Taiwan is so blithe about its own defense, why should Americans stick their necks out?...
Washington Examiner | “Elbridge Colby, co-founder of the Marathon Initiative and a former Defense Department official, has become a leading voice for a new ‘pivot to Asia.’”....
Foreign Policy | “In 2018, for example, then-U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis warned thatChina is “harboring long-term designs to rewrite the existing global order...