by Michael F. McNamara | Aug 14, 2017 | Asia, China, Current Events
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Would China actually allow the Korean Peninsula to fall into western hands if North Korea struck first or would they intervene?
Could Chine effect a regime change in North Korea if it so chose?
Will India go to war over the territorial disagreement that has Chinese and Indian troops facing each other?
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret) joins us to talk about it.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Aug 10, 2017 | Current Events, North Korea
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Is it folly to expect China to intervene in North Korea?
What do real “sanctions” look like?
We’ll talk about all of this with Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), a former intel officer and Pacific Rim expert. WARNING: Grant is not optimistic about the role China will play or that North Korea will cease and desist.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Jun 12, 2017 | Pacific Rim Security, South Korea
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Monday, June 12 2017 — Hour 2
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), and our Pacific Rim Security expert joined us to interpret the latest events from the Korean Peninsula, (1) South Korea pausing the THAAD battery deployment, (2) North Korea’s surface-to-ship missile demonstration and (3) American diplomats singing China’s praises for pressuring North Korea with no apparent evidence of progress.
We also discuss the ongoing siege on Mindanao between the Philippine Army partnered with US Special Forces and Islamic Fundamentalists which is the latest chapter in the a decades old conflict.
A GREAT translator of things in the Western Pacific.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Jun 5, 2017 | Pacific Rim Security
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Monday, June 05 2017, Hour 2
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), joined the program to discuss his recent article in the Asia Times entitled “US Marines and Okinawa: Enough exasperation to go around“
We discuss US Marine presence on Okinawa and Japanese politics relative to that. Our presence in Guam and Australia and the future of the South China Sea.
Grant also attempts to answer the question — what’s in the future for our Western Pacific allies
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by Michael F. McNamara | May 18, 2017 | Japan, North Korea
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret) — an intelligence officer by trade discusses two issues in the news with us:
(1) The high level “leaks’ that we read about almost on a daily basis
(2) The situation in the Western Pacific — has China taken ANY tangible step to reign in North Korea?
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