Map reveals where WW3 could break out in 2021 as experts warn about next big frontier of warfare
SPECULATION is growing about where the next world war may break out in 2021 as global powers modernize their nuclear arsenals and tensions between nations mount.
It comes as a Council on Foreign Relations paper revealed that Taiwan is becoming a "dangerous flashpoint" for the US but the threats posed by Iran, North Korea, and Turkey have not disappeared.
Washington has pursued a strategy of “strategic ambiguity” – where it has persuaded pro-separatist Taiwanese forces not to declare independence while deterring Beijing not to seize the island by force, according to the
"The continued lack of transparency from China about its nuclear force, policies, and plans, and future plans is a concern."
"It's entered the scene in a way that’s willing to be flexible – it borrows technology but it also willing to build a whole series of military drones and kind of see what works.”
He referred to China’s dominance of the commercial drone market and suggested that their next step would be to invest in the technology for a military purpose.
A PROBLEM LIKE KOREA
Ever since 1948, North Korea has framed itself in opposition to Washington and is intent on driving wedges between Joe Biden and his allies.
He said Pyongyang appears to show "very little intention" of abandoning its nuclear program, warning the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula appears "extremely unrealistic and unlikely".
He said the international community must find an alternative way how to address the nuclear threat.
He said Pyongyang should be ready for both dialogue and confrontation with Washington.
THE IRANIAN HEADACHE
Prof. Stephen Zunes, of the University of San Francisco, told that the conflict in Iraq between Iranian and American forces “intensified” after Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal in 2018.
The president ordered strikes on two targets in Syria and one in Iraq last month.
Pilots targeted their drone facilities that were used to attack US troops in Iraq.
The sites were used by the militia groups including Kata’ib Hezbollah and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, according to Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.
NOT-SO TURKISH DELIGHT
The Biden Administration inherited a deteriorating set of relations with Turkey.
President Erdogan described relations with the White House as "more tense" than they had been under the three previous Administrations.
Biden irritated Erdogan more when he recognized the massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as “genocide”.
The Turkish president branded the labeling “baseless, unjust and harmful to ties”.
And in May, Erdogan accused Biden of “writing history with bloody hands” after Washington approved weapon sales to Israel during its conflict with Hamas.
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Differences between Washington and Ankara remain but Nicholas Danforth, of the , said: “Rather than appear over-eager to improve relations Washington should simply leave the ball in Ankara’s court.
“This means staying the course while minimizing Turkey’s ability to disrupt U.S. and European interests.”