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Don’t fight the fed. But is China worth a shot?

The idea of taking out insurance against worst-case scenarios, mostly by cutting interest rates, became a popular choice among the world’s big...

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Daniel Moss

Koizumi’s significant (and insignificant) Yonaguni visit

Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi garnered attention this past weekend when he visited Yonaguni — Japan’s southwesternmost island that happens...

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Beijing’s ‘globalist’ agenda under Trump 2.0

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s worth reflecting on the historical significance of a year that marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War...

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Kenichi Doi

The argument for Indo-Pacific ‘collective deterrence’

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi formally launched a Cabinet-level panel that she will personally chair to develop a new security strategy that covers...

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Edo Naito

How amnesia is turning Asia’s tyrants into heroes

Indonesia’s decision to honor former dictator Suharto as a hero is a stark reminder that authoritarianism’s appeal endures in Southeast Asia....

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Karishma Vaswani And Ruth Pollard

Who will defend Germany if the Germans won’t?

When an incursion of Russian drones forced Warsaw Airport to shut down recently, Poland immediately shot them down. When unidentified drones forced...

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Katja Hoyer

Trump's Ukraine plan is shameless and should be rejected

The U.S. plan for ending Russia’s invasion is a remarkable document. It rewards aggression and punishes the victim. In addition, it undermines the...

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Marc Champion

The Chinese Communist Party's ‘Inverted World’

When Victor Gao, vice president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization, declares that Japan’s constitutional defense reforms...

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Stephen R. Nagy

How art reveals the values that sustain lasting peace

Like the air we breathe, peace does not typically command our attention until we lose it. That is why the study of peace is inextricably linked to...

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Vanessa Badré

The real failure on climate didn’t happen in Brazil

Another climate conference, another failed climate conference. That’s the sense you might get from the anguished statements emerging at the close...

wednesday 40

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David Fickling

The long road to a South Korea-U.S. trade deal

South Korea’s tariff negotiations with the U.S. emerged as an early test for President Lee Jae Myung’s “pragmatic diplomacy centered on national...

wednesday 40

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Seungjoo Lee

The console wars end not with a bang, but a whimper

For decades arguments have raged — from school playgrounds to online forums — about which games console was superior. From the era of the Super NES...

25.11.2025 60

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Gearoid Reidy

Turn Russia’s frozen assets into incentives for peace

There are moments in history when the civilized world is asked not for its opinion but for its nerve. This is one of those moments. Nearly four...

25.11.2025 50

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Thomas O. Falk

Dimming the sun is a terrifying new industry

Solar geoengineering, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, wasn’t on the agenda for this...

25.11.2025 4

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Lara Williams

Takaichi finds herself with a window of opportunity

A week of meetings in Washington convinced me yet again that for all the talk of the importance of the Indo-Pacific to the United States, actual...

25.11.2025 50

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Brad Glosserman

If China can bully Japan, it can bully anyone

China’s latest confrontation with Japan is more than a bilateral spat. It is a warning shot to all of Asia — and to the U.S., Japan’s treaty...

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Brahma Chellaney

Pakistan will regret letting the army back in

It’s usually easy to know when a country has fallen to military dictatorship. Tanks on the streets, uniforms in gilded palaces, the political class...

23.11.2025 60

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Mihir Sharma

Is America next after Canada to lose its measles elimination status?

Canada officially lost its measles elimination status this month, one that it held for nearly 30 years — a shameful consequence of falling...

23.11.2025 50

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Lisa Jarvis