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Feeling confident? Think again — you’re probably wrong.

Two weeks ago, I was 50% sure that U.S. President Donald Trump would cancel his Asia trip. I’ll spare you my reasoning but I thought I had pretty...

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Brad Glosserman

U.K.’s China spying scandal is a ‘Slow Horses’ plot

Life imitates art, sometimes too well. The Soviet double agent Kim Philby was so impressed by the work of John le Carre that he asked to meet the...

yesterday 30

Matthew Brooker

Takaichi’s road to rebuilding the LDP’s ‘big tent’

The ascension of a confident, groundbreaking leader, Sanae Takaichi, to prime minister has generated a new sense of optimism in Japan. Whether that...

yesterday 30

Taro Tsuda

With new leadership, Japan has the chance to flex its defense muscles

Japan is doing what U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded: increasing defense spending. But as America’s influence in the Indo-Pacific wanes,...

yesterday 20

Karishma Vaswani

What does the market really think about AI?

Speculation about AI’s implications for society has reached a fever pitch. While OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman speaks of a future of radical...

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Isaiah Andrews And Maryam Farboodi

The U.S. has no China policy, no strategy and no clue

As the presidents of the United States and China prepare to meet on the sidelines of an economic summit in South Korea — some foreign-policy...

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Andreas Kluth

China and Russia do not pose the same hard security threat to Europe

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the West’s perception of China has shifted significantly, especially in Europe....

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Justyna Szczudlik

Sanctions or Tomahawks? Only credible threats will convince Putin.

Could the U.S. imposition of sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies, backed by similar measures from Europe, mark the moment when the...

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Marc Champion

SoftBank’s OpenAI ambition is far too grand for banks

SoftBank Group, the whale that has fattened the wallets of many wealthy Asians, is back to tease with high-yielding dollar bonds again. Founder...

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Shuli Ren

Takaichi’s rise to power and the ‘glass cliff’

The selection of Sanae Takaichi as Japan’s 104th prime minister is remarkable in many respects, but none more so than it shatters the glass ceiling...

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