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[Bookmark] INTERVIEW | Former Governor Chris Patten Worried About Hong Kong’s Future
[Bookmark] is a new JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one [&hel
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July 1, 2020 Marks the Death of Hong Kong
On June 30, the National People’s Congress (NPC) — the legislative body of the Communist Party of China — […]
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EDITORIAL | Free Nations Must Sanction China for Crushing Freedom in Hong Kong
Late on the evening of Tuesday, June 30, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress unanimously pa
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A Look Into John Bolton’s 520 Days in the Wrong Room
The recently-released memoirs of United States President Donald J. Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bol
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EDITORIAL | Japan Should Lead Global Effort to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Available to the World
To overcome the global pandemic, it is imperative for the international community to swiftly develop vaccines and drug
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Beijing Pulls Off A Bloodless Coup in Hong Kong
I distinctly remember feeling a chill of horror. I had never experienced anything like it in my 30 […]
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EDITORIAL | Do We Really Want Xi Jinping Coming to Japan for a State Visit?
On June 4 the world marked the 31st anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen Massacre in which the Chinese government [&h
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Hong Kong Clampdown, Huawei Trail Should Remind Japan of Risks of Dealing with China
Global companies cannot exit China. Nor can people suddenly stop buying goods which are made in China, or which [&hell
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EDITORIAL | At G7 Forum, Abe Should Raise China’s Hong Kong Suppression Law As Top Priority
A May 28 vote by the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber stamp parliament, paves the way for a […]
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Asia is Now the Global Geopolitical Center, It’s Time for an Indo-Pacific Charter
Two months after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, on August 14, 1941, the heads of government of the […]
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INTERVIEW | Pandemic Shows Nations Are On Their Own — Historian Edward Luttwak
The novel coronavirus pandemic has been described as the worst global crisis since World War II. In an April […
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INTERVIEW | Visionary Jacques Attali on A New Type of Western Society After the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point in the history of the world that requires us to […]