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In response to the Trump administration’s Aug. 18 announcement that it would impose sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko...
China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress has been in effect for more than one month. Beijing claims the law will foster cohesion and...
The Trump administration’s latest assertions about executive privilege — that it protects the confidentiality of a president’s communication...
BOSTON – Almost every major global health emergency has exposed the same flaw in the international financial system. When disaster strikes, the...
Early Wednesday morning, a catastrophic flash flood surged into the Bhote Koshi River near the China-Nepal border, tearing through the settlements of...
While Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was blowing up online, at China’s recent and biggest artificial intelligence summit in Shanghai, hundreds of humanoid...
I first sensed a disturbance in the force in the early days of the first Trump administration. It wasn’t the president’s antics that got my Spidey...
Food inflation is still hitting Americans hard. The latest consumer price index report showed supermarket inflation running well above the old...
PHILADELPHIA – At Vanguard, we anticipate 3% U.S. gross domestic product growth in 2027, an estimate that is noticeably higher than other...
The age when governments could pretend that trade was about commerce and geopolitics was about power is ending. Tariffs, export controls, sanctions,...
In an era when authoritarian states pour vast resources into global media empires to shape perceptions, Taiwan’s sole international English-language...
Japan is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. Last month’s earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, which killed 38 people, and the...
A few years ago, one of my university students moved to Tokyo for the first time. Several months later, she told me something that surprised her....
Brunswick and Echelon Insights asked registered voters in late June what they would tell America’s chief executive officers if they had the chance....
Every U.S. president in recent generations has promised some version of a pivot to Asia. In Donald Trump’s second term, however, East Asia has...
From Europe to Southeast Asia, Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is on a roll. But its toughest challenge is much closer to home: cracking Japan, the...
The U.K.’s center of gravity is shifting. It’s hard to say yet whether this is a permanent recalibration or even a substantial one, but the...
Only days after the Feb. 28 surprise attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran, insurance premiums for commercial tankers transiting the Strait...
In mid-July, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched a sweeping campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court. Unprecedented in scope...
Hong Kong’s competitiveness as a financial center is about to be tested. The low-tax haven has two opposing forces that promise to transform its...
New large language models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 have dominated the debate about China’s artificial intelligence ambitions. Yet the clearest...
The motor vehicles sold in the U.S. have been getting bigger and heavier, with large pickup trucks leading the way. Large pickups also lead the way in...
U.S. President Donald Trump has long touted his personal relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Now that relationship is beginning to...
Migration is often discussed in terms of economics, demographics and border policy. Far less attention is paid to the children who arrive alongside...
NEW DELHI – For those accustomed to viewing Indian democracy through the prism of grand electoral contests or warnings about institutional erosion,...
LIBREVILLE/LOS ANGELES – Africa is facing one of the world’s great energy windfalls. The continent holds roughly 125 billion barrels of confirmed...
It’s increasingly difficult to make sense of U.S. foreign policy. It’s not unusual for there to be a divergence between strategy and statements,...
The transparency revolution in central banking proved unstoppable for three decades. Gone were the days when global monetary institutions operated as...
Japan’s defense posture has long relied on doublethink. How else can you explain the nation’s ability to simultaneously be devoutly opposed to...
Following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, Tehran responded by imposing a de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The strait’s geography...
When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it was a rare feat of bipartisan problem-solving. The law was meant to prevent a once all-too-common...
Japan’s Upper House recently passed the first substantive revision of the Imperial House Law since it took effect in 1947. Beginning Oct. 24, the...
Recent reporting says Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering testing the resolve and combat responses of NATO over the next couple of years....
In early August just before Japan entered its midsummer vacation week, some drama unfolded within Tokyo’s bureaucratic apparatus. The Asahi Shimbun...
It appears that Donald Trump is livid at Pete Hegseth. Not long ago the president still cooed that his macho secretary of defense “loves war,”...
Grand foreign-policy strategies rarely disappear overnight. More often, they are dismantled gradually through subtle rhetorical shifts, bureaucratic...
SEOUL – Around the world, governments are again using the tools of industrial policy — subsidies, tax incentives, public finance, trade measures...
China dominates drone manufacturing. DJI, the Chinese drone maker Da-Jiang Innovations, alone holds roughly 70% of the global market and its...
The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together — sellers, buyers, go-betweens — with different...
The story of Ukraine’s defense against Russian invasion is one of remarkable resilience, punctuated by tragedies of mistiming that have prevented it...
We seem to have avoided the Thucydides Trap. The inevitable conflict triggered by the insecurity in the world’s leading power created by the rise of...
As the clearest political heir to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces a defining question: Can she preserve Abe’s...
NEW YORK – Colombia is undergoing one of the most consequential political transitions in its recent history with right-wing President-elect Abelardo...
Early this month, the Immigration Services Agency proposed a nationwide guideline concerning Japanese language and daily life orientation for foreign...
When Nvidia founder Jensen Huang was in Tokyo last month, the most surprising place he visited wasn’t a chip supplier or even video game maker Sega...
The Strait of Hormuz isn’t the only Middle Eastern naval choke point under threat: In the Red Sea, vital shipping is being disrupted by an Iranian...
Today’s Indo-Pacific is hyperconnected. Information is no longer merely a medium for public discourse. It has become a strategic battlespace between...
ABU DHABI – In 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the International...
England bowed out in the 2026 World Cup semifinals, disappointing a nation that has waited 60 years to appear in a second final. Never mind: Time may...
Nearly half a century after Edward Said published his landmark book “Orientalism,” his central insight remains strikingly relevant. Said argued...
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