SILENT STEEL VISITOR: CHILEAN SUBMARINE THOMSON ARRIVES IN SAN DIEGO WATERS
San Diego, California On the calm morning of October 29, the vast Pacific shimmered under a clear sky as an unusual silhouette emerged from the horizon. It was the Chilean Navy’s Thomson (SS-20), a Type 209/1400-L diesel-electric attack submarine, making a rare appearance off the coast of Southern California. Guided carefully by a red tugboat, the submarine’s slow […]
THE CHINA CARD IN THE UKRAINE WAR: WILL XI JINPING HAND TRUMP THE KEY TO CURBING RUSSIA?
As the high-stakes summit between the United States and China approaches, scheduled for Thursday in Busan, South Korea, attention is fixed on the unusual request made by former U.S. President Donald Trump to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping: that China “help” Washington “deal with wartime Russia.” This summit, held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) […]
