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China’s rare-earth dominance reveals the strengths and vulnerabilities of its distinctive political economy — and offers lessons for competitors...
The Trump administration’s decision to impose sanctions not only on individual International Criminal Court officials but also on the ICC itself has...
China’s top military command has been almost emptied out. Of the seven members chosen for the Central Military Commission in 2022, only Xi Jinping...
Banks found it relatively easy to fend off the crypto bros. Artificial intelligence agents may prove a lot harder to tame. This time last year,...
Last week, finance ministers and senior officials from across the region gathered in Hong Kong for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Finance...
Boeing’s Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg must be pinching himself. In the span of just a few days, the company’s beleaguered Starliner...
Kim Jong Un might be the world’s most in-demand leader. U.S. President Donald Trump wants to meet him during a visit to Asia next month. So, too,...
France is in a financial crisis. That much is clear. What isn’t so clear is exactly why. This seems silly even to ask. The recent destruction and...
NEW DELHI – For decades, South Asia was locked in a perpetual cycle of conflict management: Brief military clashes between India and Pakistan would...
The most bothersome aspect of the warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity is that there are few details about how a rogue...
BUENOS AIRES – Nearly three years after Javier Milei became Argentina’s president, the chainsaw-wielding free-marketeer has established himself as...
In June, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a long-term economic development plan calling for more than ¥370 trillion ($2.3 trillion) in public...
It is a tragedy for Israelis and Palestinians alike that the state of Israel happens to be home to two extraordinarily charismatic populist...
Doomsday predictions of artificial intelligence causing massive white-collar job losses haven’t come to pass. At least not yet. There is, however,...
France is still cleaning up after demonstrations on Oct. 16 that escalated into three days of rioting and looting, damaging more than 3,000...
Despite everything that has been thrown at the global economy, it remains remarkably hardy. The Iran war is extracting a modest toll, higher interest...
Australia has abundant energy resources, yet its rush to meet emissions targets is proving costly, made worse by delays in delivering replacement...
Step away from the minute-by-minute news cycle for a moment and consider what two of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council...
Taiwan has long been preparing for the specter of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait, with much attention given to the ability of its armed forces to...
Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris recently will have sensed the “shame and anger” described by President Emmanuel Macron following the...
Global debt crises follow a painful and familiar template. A rise in the cost of money reveals whose house is in order and who has been cutting...
For a leader often accused of dodging the press, there’s one ironic thing about Sanae Takaichi: She’s front-page material. Since becoming...
MELBOURNE – “Americanism, not effective altruism.” That’s a new slogan launched on X by the U.S. Department of “War,” the words running...
Pop quiz. How big is the global rare-earths market? For all the hullaballoo, handwringing and hyperventilating, the market this year is reckoned to...
Mohammed bin Salman has led Saudi Arabia for about a decade, but the next few months will be his greatest challenge yet. It was as defense minister...
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – On a recent visit to Sapporo, the city on Japan’s northern island where my parents came from, my wife and I found gentle...
BERLIN – During his recent visit to Washington, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced that China would send a breeding pair of giant pandas to Zoo...
Japan’s Immigration Services Agency on Oct. 1 revised its guidelines for permanent residency, introducing Japanese-language proficiency as an...
The last 75 years have brought the greatest improvement of human welfare in history. But over the past decade, much of that progress has stalled. This...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is again in a throwdown with the president of the United States, this time over his refusal to obey a White House edict to stop...
Visitors to Japan know the simple joys of a local beer — a mug of lager that, regardless of the brand on the label, is consistently tasty and...
A spate of cyberattacks that has rocked Japan Inc. in recent weeks is alarming not because of some novel artificial intelligence hacking methods, but...
Seventy-three years ago, Washington decided that an elected prime minister was bad for the oil market. Mohammad Mossadegh had nationalized the...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has a fantastic sense of humor. At a time when Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has turned central bank...
They say the purpose of a system is what it does, meaning you should judge it not by its stated goals but by its results. On that basis, the purpose...
The devastating Himalayan floods in August exposed an uncomfortable reality for Asia: Infrastructure built in the world’s most fragile mountain...
These are humbling times for advocates of tougher Western sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, almost five years on from its invasion of Ukraine....
Earlier this year, OpenAI disclosed that one of its systems had escaped the security protocols designed to contain it and hacked into another company,...
A cloud of haze has descended across Southeast Asia over the past few months as a brutal El Nino helps incinerate forest and scrub in Indonesia....
Ever since things in Ukraine first went sideways for Vladimir Putin back in the spring of 2022, the Russian president and his officials have said...
The University of Tokyo, one of Japan’s most prestigious universities, is under pressure to rebuild public trust and change how it governs itself...
Two years ago, when Japan embarked on its path toward policy normalization, I asked whether the country was ready for a “world with interest.” It...
ISTANBUL – On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel shocked the world by launching strikes across Iran and assassinating the country’s supreme...
The world is watching a split screen: In one panel, humanity sees jurists such as Navi Pillay of South Africa, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize for...
On Sept. 26, 2023, my fellow human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa was imprisoned in Thailand for calling for the reform of the Thai monarchy. He has been...
On Sept. 30, multinational forces led by U.S. troops, who had been stationed in Iraq since 2003, completed their withdrawal. Has Iraq truly become an...
The Hamas terror attack on Israel three years ago horrified the world. But the indiscriminate ferocity of the Israeli response under Prime Minister...
By the traditional laws of international relations, the Indo-Pacific should be basking in an era of unprecedented peace. For decades, the prevailing...
China’s latest effort to prop up its battered housing market and spur the economy is getting a poor reception. The measures are underwhelming and...
South Korea’s remarkable economic boom can run for a while yet, if the central bank has any say in the matter. Officials do have their work cut out...
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