米国は西半球における米国の優位性を回復するためにモンロー主義を再度主張し、施行する。 The United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.
（イオー・ジマ（USS Iwo Jima, LHD-7）は、アメリカ海軍の強襲揚陸艦。ワスプ級強襲揚陸艦の7番艦。2005年2月から第2艦隊旗艦を務める。艦名は第二次世界大戦の激戦地であった硫黄島に因んで名付けられており、アメリカ海軍所属艦艇の同名の強襲揚陸艦としては2代目、先代は1993年に退役したイオー・ジマ級1番艦イオー・ジマ（1961年就役 ）である。）
Internal logics prevail.
China with its Eastern Hemisphere, right or wrong?
Chinese pre-eminence in the Asian region, right or wrong?
What will Japan do, when China invades Taiwan?
La última actividad oficial de Maduro horas antes de ser capturado: un encuentro con enviados de China
El dictador se mostró en el Palacio de Miraflores con una delegación del régimen de Xi Jinping. “¡China y Venezuela, unidas!“, celebró. A las pocas horas fue extraído de Caracas
https://www.infobae.com/venezuela/2026/01/03/la-ultima-actividad-oficial-de-maduro-un-encuentro-con-enviados-de-china/
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2007374426795585827/photo/1
What did the United States do when Russia invaded Crimea, Ukraine?
So when China launches a special military operation to seize the President of Taiwan, or Russia tries to do the same for Ukrainian President Zelensky – what exactly do we say? You can’t do that, it’s illegal?
Fact is, Putin tried to kill Zelensky on the night of Feb 24, 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Volodymyr_Zelenskyy
Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise
Jan. 3, 2026
Damon Winter/The New York Times
By The Editorial Board
The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.
Over the past few months, President Trump has deployed an imposing military force in the Caribbean to threaten Venezuela. Until now, the president used that force — an aircraft carrier, at least seven other warships, scores of aircraft and 15,000 U.S. troops — for illegal attacks on small boats that he claimed were ferrying drugs. On Saturday, Mr. Trump dramatically escalated his campaign by capturing President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela as part of what he called “a large scale strike” against the country.
Few people will feel any sympathy for Mr. Maduro. He is undemocratic and repressive, and has destabilized the Western Hemisphere in recent years. The United Nations recently issued a report detailing more than a decade of killings, torture, sexual violence and arbitrary detention by henchmen against his political opponents. He stole Venezuela’s presidential election in 2024. He has fueled economic and political disruption throughout the region by instigating an exodus of nearly eight million migrants.
If there is an overriding lesson of American foreign affairs in the past century, however, it is that attempting to oust even the most deplorable regime can make matters worse. The United States spent 20 years failing to create a stable government in Afghanistan and replaced a dictatorship in Libya with a fractured state. The tragic consequences of the 2003 war in Iraq continue to beset America and the Middle East. Perhaps most relevant, the United States has sporadically destabilized Latin American countries, including Chile, Cuba, Guatemala and Nicaragua, by trying to oust a government through force.
Mr. Trump has not yet offered a coherent explanation for his actions in Venezuela. He is pushing our country toward an international crisis without valid reasons. If Mr. Trump wants to argue otherwise, the Constitution spells out what he must do: Go to Congress. Without congressional approval, his actions violate U.S. law.
The nominal rationale for the administration’s military adventurism is to destroy “narco-terrorists.” Governments throughout history have labeled the leaders of rival nations as terrorists, seeking to justify military incursions as policing operations. The claim is particularly ludicrous in this case, given that Venezuela is not a meaningful producer of fentanyl or the other drugs that have dominated the recent epidemic of overdoses in the United States, and the cocaine that it does produce flows mostly to Europe. While Mr. Trump has been attacking Venezuelan boats, he also pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, who ran a sprawling drug operation when he was president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022.
A more plausible explanation for the attacks on Venezuela may instead be found in Mr. Trump’s recently released National Security Strategy. It claimed the right to dominate Latin America: “After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.” In what the document called the “Trump Corollary,” the administration vowed to redeploy forces from around the world to the region, stop traffickers on the high seas, use lethal force against migrants and drug runners and potentially base more U.S. troops around the region.
A correction was made on
Jan. 3, 2026
An earlier version of this article misstated the month in which María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize. It was December 2025, not this month.
The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine
Proclamations
December 2, 2025
On December 2, 1823, the doctrine of American sovereignty was immortalized in prose when President James Monroe declared before the Nation a simple truth that has echoed throughout the ages: The United States will never waver in defense of our homeland, our interests, or the well-being of our citizens. Today, my Administration proudly reaffirms this promise under a new “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine: That the American people—not foreign nations nor globalist institutions—will always control their own destiny in our hemisphere.
More than 2 centuries ago, President Monroe proclaimed before the United States Congress what is today known as the legendary “Monroe Doctrine”—a bold policy that rejects foreign interference of faraway nations and confidently asserts United States leadership in the Western Hemisphere. “The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers,” President Monroe professed. With those mighty words, every nation knew that the United States of America was emerging as a superpower unlike anything the world had ever known—and that nothing could ever rival the strength, unity, and resolve of a freedom-loving people.
In the centuries since, President Monroe’s doctrine of sovereignty has guarded the American continents against communism, fascism, and foreign infringement, and as the 47th President of the United States, I am proudly reasserting this time-honored policy. Since I took office, I have aggressively pursued an America first policy of peace through strength. We restored U.S. privileged access through the Panama Canal. We are reestablishing American maritime dominance. We are disrupting non-market practices in the international supply chain and logistics sectors.
My Administration is also halting the flow of deadly drugs flowing through Mexico, ending the invasion of illegal aliens along our southern border, and dismantling narco-terrorist networks all across the Western Hemisphere. To defend our Nation’s workers and industries, I recently secured historic trade deals with El Salvador, Argentina, Ecuador, and Guatemala, allowing greater and more streamlined market access. Reinvigorated by my Trump Corollary, the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well—and American leadership is coming roaring back stronger than ever before.
Today, we renew our pledge to always uphold American sovereignty, security, and safety first. Above all, we vow to protect our cherished national legacy of republican self-government against all threats, foreign and domestic.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/america-250-presidential-message-on-the-anniversary-of-the-monroe-doctrine
Check:
米国における超党派の法案：「台湾保証実施法案」 (Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act) / (第一列島線 First Island Chain)
Bipartisan Bill in the US: The Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act / (第一列島線 First Island Chain)
https://art-culture.world/politics/taiwan-assurance-implementation-act/
習近平国家主席：「中国と米国は、主要国としての責任を共に担い、両国と世界全体の利益のために、より多く、より偉大で、より具体的な成果を共に達成できるはずです。」
President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping: “China and the US can jointly shoulder our responsibility as major countries and work together to accomplish more, great, and concrete things for the good of our two countries and the whole world.”
