From left to right, Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne...
Tokyo’s relationship with China and North Korea in a post-Abe era will continue to be an issue pertaining to Japan’s future foreign policy. Nuclear weapons...
In the light of last month’s violent clashes between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, New Delhi has been forced to...
They say, you can’t choose your neighbors. That applies to all countries, including Japan. In recent times, the island nation of Japan has had to...
(Cover map courtesy of: Press Trust of India, cited in https://kashmirobserver.) The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has trespassed inside the Indian-perceived Line of...
China yet again has intruded inside the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in India’s Ladakh sector. It has placed about 5,000 soldiers and armored vehicles...
As questions hound the Chinese leadership at home and abroad over the origin, outbreak, and failure to contain the virus, Xi Jinping’s foremost challenge...
On April 18, China’s State Council announced its approval of setting up two new municipal districts as dependencies of the southernmost Sansha city, in Hainan...
Taiwan’s defense is Japan’s defense. Look at a map and it’s hard to think otherwise. And Beijing would agree. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has...
Japanese defense initiatives can seem like Rorschach tests — meaning very different things to different people. Take Tokyo’s recent announcement that it would buy...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging a battle to influence and control the narrative over history in Asia through propaganda and “thought management” (sixiang...
(Second of Two Parts) Part 1: Common Concerns, Common Mission: Japan, U.S. Defend Western Pacific vs China Aggression The White Paper Defense of...