Cryptocurrency is often criticized as camouflage for terrorist funding or a financial bubble waiting to burst. But these criticisms mask its true nature, which is...
Military expansion is on the rise in China amid Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power in a personal dictatorship. Not a few quarters are concerned about...
As a foreign correspondent for most of the several decades of my journalism career, following trends in the Japan-United States-China trilateral relationship has been...
Refusing to hide its ambition to take the Japanese sovereign territory of the Senkaku Islands (Okinawa Prefecture), China was not content with just sending Chinese...
Douglas H. Paal, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, spoke with the Sankei Shimbun’s Washington correspondent Hiroyuki Kano. As a...
President Donald Trump salutes during a welcome ceremony at U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Aiea, Hawaii. Trump begins a 5 country trip...
We must prepare to be increasingly vigilant and undertake a hardline approach to diplomacy, commensurate with an abnormally centralized power and the destruction of the...
The recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to India will be remembered for many things, especially the attention given to Japan-India cooperation in...
In November 2012, shortly after being anointed to the highest position in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and even before being named head of the...
The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), with headquarters in Beijing, held its second annual general meeting on June 17. Speaking at a press conference...
Rights advocates roundly condemned in a recent symposium the violations being committed by China in Baluchistan, the biggest of the four provinces of Pakistan. ...
On May 14, North Korea launched a ballistic missile, which flew around 800 km before landing in the Sea of Japan. The launch comes just...