By Orçun Göktürk The 20th Shangri-La Dialogue, held in Singapore from June 2 to 4, revealed important clues about US strategy for NATO expansion in the Asia-Pacific. Originally Chinese, the word Shangri-La means “heaven on earth” or “utopia”. Some have called the meeting “Asia’s Munich Security Summit”. The organizer is the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based “think ...
By Orçun Göktürk * While the almost a year-long Russian special military operation in Ukraine is halting NATO’s expansion to the East, the United States of America (USA) is simultaneously stepping up its aggression not only in Europe but also in the Asia-Pacific. Melodie Ha, an expert at the US Department of Defense, recently stated: “We need to further engage ...