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Before heading to the Group of Seven summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited her British and Italian counterparts in...
A politician essentially handpicked by Beijing, Chief Executive John Lee, has dealt a lethal blow to the rule of law in Hong Kong. It’s simple and...
The long-awaited Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States was electronically signed on June 14, Donald Trump’s 80th birthday....
Peace deals are never easy and the path to the U.S.-Iran agreement announced on Sunday may yet take unexpected turns. If implemented as envisioned,...
Three months ago Iran launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles toward the U.K.-controlled island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Neither...
Major world events such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup operate under a bargain. Countries spend billions of dollars to build stadiums and...
One of the most striking things about contemporary America is the popularity of conspiracy theories. The list of absurd things that “everybody...
Would you pay 99 cents to make Super Mario jump higher? In an infamous 2014 letter to Nintendo, activist fund Oasis Management proposed that the...
China rewrote the rules of global business a few weeks ago. You probably missed it. Two innocuous-sounding regulations from the State Council threaten...
N'DJAMENA, Chad – As everyone knows, the war in the Middle East has caused a sharp spike in oil, gas and food prices, creating severe economic...
As Brazil commemorates 118 years of Japanese immigration on June 18, public attention will once again focus on one of the most visible legacies of the...
In two months, it will be five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. During these five years, despite the overwhelming evidence...
On Sunday, Washington and Tehran confirmed that both sides had “electronically signed” a preliminary memorandum of understanding aimed at ending...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Shortly after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump praised the country’s new...
My favorite tech trend so far this year has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It’s the cool girls making their own “cyberdecks,” —...
Do you live in fear of the specter of “Japanese neo-militarism”? Are you girding yourself for another campaign of advance across Asia? Perhaps you...
NEW YORK – The U.S.-Israeli-Iran war may be remembered for many things, not least the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the reshaping of Middle...
No one knows whether AI will trigger a white-collar jobpocalypse. The loudest warnings still come from people building and selling the technology,...
A recent case in Japan has sparked intense discussion about artificial intelligence. In late May, media reports revealed that the 18-year-old daughter...
No wonder Donald Trump swore at his supposed friend and ally Benjamin Netanyahu recently. Within days of that June 1 phone call, Israel and Iran were...
“As close as lips and teeth” is how Mao Zedong famously described China’s ties with North Korea. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to...
You may never have heard of Aki and Koichi, but this sartorial couple in their 70s from California are a hit on social media. They are part of a wave...
I’m a longtime fan of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian band whose thunderous performances set the standard for political activism in the...
On a spring evening in Budapest, I watched the Kodaly Choir of Debrecen close a program of Asian voices with a song from a place few in the hall could...
Catching a glimpse of Dario Amodei these days is like finding a rare butterfly. The chief executive officer of Anthropic PBC was scheduled to meet...
NEW DELHI – On his recent visit to India, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio predictably touted India as one of America’s “most important...
When Google recently announced radical changes to its search tool that will overshadow the page of blue links we’ve been used to seeing for more...
MADRID – The nuclear question has returned to the center of global politics. While the specter of nuclear proliferation never disappeared, it was...
South Korea’s recent diplomatic thaw with China is not a pivot toward Beijing — it is a hedge against a more volatile world. The warming of ties,...
Geopolitics is currently making it harder for India’s 1.4 billion people to cool off in the punishing summer heat. Things are about to get a whole...
The share of U.S. workers who worked primarily from home, or WFHers, last year was 13.3%, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau data,...
When Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi argued before the country’s parliament last month that requiring candidates to disclose prior citizenship would...
BANGKOK – At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed America’s Asian allies to spend 3.5% of...
A decade after the Brexit vote, the finance industry at the heart of London is doing... well, fine actually. When Britain opted to quit the European...
HALO, which stands for heavy assets, low obsolescence, is the trade of the year. Global investors have been bidding up makers of everything, from cars...
Over the past decade, campus political activism in liberal-democratic nations has come under critical scrutiny for many perceived excesses: woke...
In South Korea, historic bonuses for chip-firm workers are reportedly leading to a surge in demand for luxury cars. In Japan, where companies in the...
By his own definition, Graham Platner is not working class. Although the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Maine is almost universally...
In mid-March, I wrote that Iran in 2026 is like Japan in 1944. Now, with the Strait of Hormuz still blockaded and ceasefire talks unresolved, the...
MARBURG, Germany – The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has revealed how instability can become a powerful political instrument. Leaders can exploit...
Just over a week ago, the question facing the American “intelligence community” — all of the assorted spies and spooks at 18 different agencies...
In October 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mamallapuram, a coastal town in southern India. Modi highlighted...
Pollution, like money, is fungible. Once you breathe carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it’s interchangeable with all the other CO2 on the planet,...
I’m perplexed and vexed. This is “a new Golden Age” for the Japan-U.S. relationship, yet in every conversation I had last week in Tokyo, concern...
A few weeks ago, an editor from China Daily, the English-language mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, reached out to me with a seemingly...
POTSDAM, Germany – As scientists, we had the uneasy privilege of witnessing China’s rise earlier than most. Long before a country’s regional or...
Carbon dioxide is plant food, so you might think pumping the atmosphere full of it would be better for plants. The trouble is that CO2 is also the...
KYIV – National resilience has long been defined by military strength and defense spending. But policymakers are starting to recognize that culture...
If you want a blueprint for how countries can survive this era of great power rivalry, look no further than Vietnam. A focus on economic growth and a...
Japan has long relied on innovation to beat the heat. From the invention of sensu fans that could be folded up into a kimono in the Heian era more...
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