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Anyone of a certain generation will remember trading video game cartridges in the schoolyard, an essential part of a hobby where new titles cost more...
PARIS/LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – This year, the United Arab Emirates announced a plan to have half of its government services run on agentic AI within...
The India-Japan summit in New Delhi last week may come to be seen as a defining moment for the Indo-Pacific. At a time of growing uncertainty over...
The U.S. Army buys 50,000 drones a year, set to increase in 2027 to 340,000. Sounds like a lot? Yeah, but Ukraine is producing and launching 4 million...
During the Q&A that followed his keynote speech last week to the 39th Asia-Pacific Roundtable (APR), Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim riffed...
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Shinzo Abe, a man who I believe will be numbered among the truly great figures of his time....
PARIS – The shambolic diplomacy between U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and Iran provides further evidence that world affairs have...
In the span of time it took for Washington to restrict, then hit undo on limitations to Anthropic PBC’s top models, Silicon Valley woke up to Zhipu....
BOSTON – When World War II began in 1939, Canada had almost no meaningful military industry. Six years later, Canadian factories had produced...
The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is a good time to remember that the American Revolution wasn’t inevitable....
BERLIN – It is only partially a coincidence that the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum — the event that provoked a toxic polarization of...
In the interests of transparency, King Charles III has disclosed the amount of tax he pays. Trouble is, the pinprick of light that has fallen on the...
There are sound arguments for Japan sitting on the sidelines as the yen skids to a four-decade low. Turning the currency around, never easy at the...
The malls tucked away in Singapore’s heartland, far from the bustle of Orchard Road’s glitzy shopping venues, tell the story of the cautious Asian...
In a promotional video for his book “Defending Taiwan,” Eyck Freymann argues that China is using Japan as a testing ground for new forms of...
In Japan, an issue that “should never be politicized” is becoming a political issue. Under current law, only three male members of the imperial...
KYOTO – China’s export engine remains remarkably powerful. The country ended 2025 with the world’s largest-ever merchandise-trade surplus —...
Belarus is often described as a time bomb — one aimed not only at Ukraine, but at Europe itself. Russia has loaded it with triggers, turning the...
NEW DELHI – India’s citizens are witnessing a remarkable inversion of democracy: a government choosing its voters rather than the other way...
For decades, Japanese-language education in Japan was sustained not by the state but by the goodwill of volunteers. A persistent belief that “any...
In the early 2000s Sepp Blatter, the then-head of soccer’s governing body FIFA, spoke of where he saw the sport going. “In Asia you have more than...
NEW YORK – From the Kremlin to the White House to Silicon Valley, the Antichrist — or at least talk of it — is coming. The concept amounts to...
NEW DELHI – India’s citizens are witnessing a remarkable inversion of democracy: a government choosing its voters rather than the other way...
At the outset of his last year as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan had a warning. “History cautions,” he told Congress in 2005,...
On June 29, China’s Ministry of Commerce added 20 Japanese entities to its export control list, the harder of two lists it issued that day. The...
In a decision last Thursday that redefines what it means to be heartless, the Supreme Court held that by stopping asylum seekers from crossing the...
Every July 1, fireworks illuminate the skies across Canada. This year, however, the country marks Canada Day with a revitalized sense of pride. Prime...
LONDON – Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a tough few months. While the Ukraine war never unfolded according to plan, Putin believed, until...
Modern warfare — despite its guided drones and “precision” bombing — inevitably kills civilians. Yet journalists, supposedly protected under...
TORONTO – America has capitulated to Iran. The “memorandum of understanding” signed by the two sides specifies terms that spell victory for the...
If Starbucks Korea believes that a compulsory history lesson would draw a line under a marketing fiasco that has dented both reputation and business,...
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s early June visit to North Korea, Kim Jong Un confirmed his support for Beijing’s “One China” principle,...
Shortly before Russia re-invaded Ukraine more than four years ago, I went to Mariupol to get a sense of what the response would be and met Ruslan...
Every four years, Japan wins the same World Cup — not on the pitch, but in the stands, where order and civic virtue are performed for a global...
OXFORD, England – It has long been clear that slow-moving governments are not keeping pace with rapid AI progress. But Anthropic’s announcement...
Folarin Balogun, star striker for the United States Men’s National Team, helped to lead his country into the World Cup knockout rounds. He could...
Earlier this month, Beijing designated the Taiwan Strait and several areas around Taiwan to be “coastal waters.” As many Japanese leaders and...
The ASEAN-Russia Commemorative Summit, held June 17-18, 2026, in Kazan, Russia, marked 35 years of dialogue relations and 30 years of formal...
Kevin Warsh’s early days at the helm of the Federal Reserve are a tough reminder that when it comes to currencies, the U.S. central bank isn’t...
In Giuliano da Empoli’s 2022 novel “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” the protagonist Vadim Baranov — a fictionalized version of Russian President...
Beneath the oceans, out of sight and mostly out of mind, lies the infrastructure that keeps messages sending, videos streaming and AI tools answering...
Keir Starmer has informed King Charles III of his intention to depart 10 Downing Street. By September, the U.K. will have its seventh prime minister...
CAIRO – On April 15, a group of developing countries launched the Borrowers’ Platform to create a more powerful collective voice in...
Japan wants to turn its factory floors into the proving ground for the next frontier of artificial intelligence. The question is whether it still has...
The United States appears to be stepping back from a key element of its Indo-Pacific strategy, dropping “Indo” from the Indo-Pacific Command and...
Ten years ago, economists Gordon Hanson, David Autor and David Dorn identified what they called “the China shock.” That referred to the...
“Assimilate or go home,” read the sign at Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s side as he held forth on the Senate floor last month about the proposed...
Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun has little to show from a two-week trip to the United States, the most concrete sign yet that Taiwan’s chief...
Usually, if someone or something is trying too hard to be cool, it isn’t. The same could be said of the Cool Japan Fund, a public-private investment...
Two military conflicts less than a year apart have renewed attention on China’s prospects as an arms exporter. But even with a compelling commercial...
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