Ten days after the Taliban had taken over Kabul, Zubair Babakarkhail and his family were on their way out. Hours after they had left, a suicide...
Asia’s nuclear instability and danger ー North Korea’s missiles and China’s over threats ー have not diminished in the past decade. Can a nuclear powered submarine...
The Quad’s first two leaders’ summits in 2021 have added critical and emerging technology as one of the key security issues for the United States, Japan,...
Countries with strong ties to Myanmar, including Japan, should create a mechanism for resolving the problem, in cooperation with the U.N. Security Council and the ASEAN.
Quell any and all apprehensions of abandonment by America. What is important is to ensure that democratic nations and voices shall eventually prevail in Asia, and...
Regional order and steady growth in the Indo-Pacific can only be materialized by states that respect freedom and democracy, rather than authoritarianism.
China, with state-owned enterprises, state-controlled economy and forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, dares to apply for membership in the free market CPTPP?
China is running amok, leveraging its enormous economic power to overcome the hurdles of joining CPTPP. Japan should push for the United States’ return to the...
China, itself an applicant like Taiwan, wants to force other countries to do as it desires. It’s rather obvious where Japan, chair of the group for...
There are two critical misperceptions: that Japan transitioned from dictatorship to U.S.-gifted democracy, and that it was never an ally of the West prior to its...
Fear sells, and the media uncritically pushes everyone’s alarmist messages, whether it is an “epidemic of the unvaccinated,” or a new mutant virus, or overburdened hospitals.
U.S. and U.K. will provide Australia with what President Joe Biden refers to as “the most modern capabilities we need to maneuver and defend against rapidly...
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