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The black market for Russian and Iranian oil is in trouble

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Javier Blas

Putin has weaponized the peace talks. The U.S. can stop him

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Marc Champion

Lessons for Japan’s scientific community from Trump’s America

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Yuko Kakazu

Time for Takaichi to tackle Japan’s political taboos

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Edo Naito

Musk is wrong about AI and retirement: You still need to save.

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Allison Schrager

Trump’s trade truce won’t restore the U.S.-India relationship

tuesday 30

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Brahma Chellaney

Japan’s inbound tourism booms as outbound travel lags

tuesday 50

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Peter Chai

Cuba is home alone in Latin America

tuesday 30

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Why is everyone so self-righteous?

tuesday 50

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Steven Sloman

Trump is a lot like Kaiser Wilhelm: vanity itself

tuesday 20

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Max Hastings

Sanae Takaichi is not who you think she is

tuesday 30

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Gearoid Reidy

The trouble with winning big for Takaichi and the LDP

tuesday 70

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

What Trump wants from Russia

tuesday 20

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Ana Palacio

Why the U.S. let the New START arms control treaty die

16.02.2026 10

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Stephen Holmes

Sanae Takaichi is not who you think she is

16.02.2026 30

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Gearoid Reidy

China’s population rebound faces structural limits

16.02.2026 20

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Yi Fuxian

What Trump wants from Russia

16.02.2026 20

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Ana Palacio

Nothing ‘unexpected’ about the left’s election blowout

15.02.2026 200

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Kuni Miyake

Trump is a lot like Kaiser Wilhelm: vanity itself

15.02.2026 40

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Max Hastings

Britain needs so much more than a new prime minister

15.02.2026 250

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Adrian Wooldridge

Most in Asia want a stronger Japanese security presence — except for China

12.02.2026 20

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Karishma Vaswani

Epstein saga confirms fears of a class above the law

12.02.2026 20

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Brad Glosserman

Sack a British prince? Easy. Fire a U.K. lord? Not so much.

11.02.2026 20

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Matthew Brooker

Challenges for Japan during the U.S.-China ‘truce’

11.02.2026 20

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Naoko Eto

Japan’s youth are quietly securing their nation’s future

10.02.2026 30

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Waka Ikeda

Takaichi’s big win: A major victory for hard-nosed realism

10.02.2026 40

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Stephen R. Nagy

Why Asia can’t undo decades of falling fertility rates

10.02.2026 30

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Daniel Moss

U.S. President Donald Trump is no game theorist

10.02.2026 30

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Koichi Hamada

The coming crypto apocalypse

10.02.2026 60

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Nouriel Roubini

Trump has killed American deterrence

09.02.2026 30

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Stephen Holmes

South Carolina’s measles milestone is everyone’s problem

09.02.2026 50

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Lisa Jarvis

The problem with making every election an existential threat

09.02.2026 60

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David M. Drucker

Takaichi’s victory holds a foreign-policy lesson for the U.S.

09.02.2026 40

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Chris Estep

Five key takeaways from Takaichi’s landslide victory

09.02.2026 40

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

New world order or bust in the age of artificial intelligence

08.02.2026 40

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Margrethe Vestager

Starmer is facing the final curtain as British prime minister

08.02.2026 30

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Martin Ivens

India’s dwindling Maoist insurgency

06.02.2026 40

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Shashi Tharoor

On Iran, U.S. needs a little more data and a lot less hubris

06.02.2026 30

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Marc Champion

Memo to middle powers: Time for a reality check

06.02.2026 50

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Stephen R. Nagy

Four years of war and Ukraine still needs the world

06.02.2026 30

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Kumiharu Shigehara

The unthinkable is on the list of Japanese security options

05.02.2026 70

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Brad Glosserman

The FBI’s Georgia ballot raid is about 2026, not 2020

04.02.2026 50

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Mary Ellen Klas

Japan’s bond market has a warning for America

04.02.2026 50

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Allison Schrager

China is losing more than just two ports in Panama

04.02.2026 60

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Is this election really unpredictable?

04.02.2026 40

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Edo Naito

A cheat sheet to Takaichi’s snap election

03.02.2026 50

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Has Takaichi secured a win? Conservative voters are returning to the LDP.

03.02.2026 40

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Rintaro Nishimura

Goodbye arms control, hello nuclear anarchy

03.02.2026 40

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Andreas Kluth

Trump, Takaichi and Japan’s strategic crossroads

03.02.2026 50

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Hitoshi Suzuki

Where will a Democratic Japan go from here?

03.02.2026 40

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Kuni Miyake