A Japanese illustration depicting the negotiations of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Middle Kingdom and Empire of...
This article—the last in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1: Comfort...
The Trump administration in April launched a missile attack on a Syrian air base, apparently as punishment for the Assad regime’s supposed use of chemical...
Those who would destroy the international community's rules and order must be unwaveringly opposed. In that regard, President Xi Jinping personally just witnessed the United States'...
The first summit talks since the inauguration of the Trump administration will be held this week. As China exerts increasing influence from all possible sides--economically,...
Ever since the Trump administration came to power, it has tried to concentrate on what the president terms as his “America First” strategy. One of the first...
Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, being interviewed by the Sankei Shimbun (Photo Yoshikazu Hiroike) The Tibetan government-in-exile is based in Dharamsala...
Ask an American journalist, “Do you trust the Chinese government?” If the answer is yes, there is nothing more to talk about. If the answer is...
This will be Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s second meeting with President Donald J. Trump. Abe’s strategy is the correct one: he wants to build a familiarity...
Another meeting between a U.S. secretary of defense and Japanese minister of defense took place February 3 and 4, as a show of the closeness between...
The Trump Era has officially begun with last week’s inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC. With the change of administration in Washington, there is deep geopolitical uncertainty...
In the beginning of the marathon race that is the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump looked like froth on the water. But his radical choice of...