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“Ukraine today is Asia tomorrow.” Asian strategists and policymakers have been guided by that homily for over four years. A chat this week with an...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton once said that when a crisis breaks out, the first thing everyone in Washington asks is, “Where is the nearest...
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently quit and posted on social media that it was because “the people building AI earnestly believe that it...
NEW YORK – From the moment it was announced, the ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran has been marked by a different form of...
The technologies that increasingly determine national security are being developed not only by governments but by private companies and universities....
It was always going to be a stretch for Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda to sound very hawkish. Given that officials have tightened cautiously the past...
NEW DELHI – India’s female labor force participation rate (LFPR) stands at 35%, which is well below that of peers like Bangladesh (42%) and the...
Milton Friedman was baffled by Hong Kong. During his second visit in 1963, there was pulsating activity all around him — but no official data. Why...
Japan has learned to take burnout seriously. Companies, schools, hospitals and other organizations increasingly recognize the dangers of excessive...
KYIV/URBANA, Illinois/BERKELEY, California – Twelve years ago, Ukraine was sleepwalking toward catastrophe. Now Europe is. Before 2014, Ukraine’s...
From the U.S. green card to the U.K.’s “indefinite leave to remain,” permanent residency in a country that’s not your own can be a prickly...
How do you bring tourists back to a place still recovering from a disaster without turning the disaster itself into a tourist attraction? And once...
Artificial-intelligence researchers have spent the last year toying with a compelling proposition: AI models could be more powerful and cheaper to run...
When DeepSeek’s reasoning model burst onto the scene last year and put Chinese artificial intelligence on the global map, the internet responded by...
Like many tourists visiting Japan, I fell in love with onigiri, plump triangles of rice wrapped in thin sheets of roasted seaweed called nori. They...
NEW YORK – At first glance, India and China seem to be taking almost identical positions on the Ukraine war: maintain close ties with the Kremlin,...
ATHENS – As China embraced capitalism, its leading universities adopted mainstream Western textbooks to mold their students’ thinking about the...
Good news for fans of music produced by actual musicians: Some important victories are being won in the war against AI slop and trickery. In November,...
Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, recently released a policy paper that couldn’t be more wrongheaded. Innocuously titled “A...
When was the last time you heard a meaningful proposal to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal? There’s been nothing on the subject since...
Ours is an era of great power competition. The United States acknowledges as much in its official national security documents; China concedes that is...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s mid-August declaration that he would downsize American participation in joint drills with South Korea due to his...
Across Southeast Asia, artists and cultural rights defenders are increasingly being cast as threats — to public morality, political order and...
Japan’s 10-year government bond yield has reached 3% for the first time since 1996. It remains below comparable U.S. and European yields, but the...
One of the great challenges of long-term economic planning in a democracy is the election cycle. The political competition that gives democracy its...
At 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, I was on a plane somewhere over Connecticut. I was flying from Logan to LaGuardia, on my way from my home near Boston...
The 2026 Asian Games will kick off in Nagoya on Friday. At the Opening Ceremony, Taiwan’s athletes will once again be required to enter the stadium...
Let’s set aside, for a moment, how ridiculous it is that officials serving in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, including executive...
MOSCOW – In the early 1950s, a group of prominent, mostly Jewish doctors from Moscow was accused of plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders on orders...
Nepal’s recent catastrophic floods, which have killed more than 1,340 people and left nearly 5,000 missing, according to the country’s disaster...
The landslide victory by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sept. 6 seems to have...
Japan’s latest science and technology strategy makes national security a central pillar of research and innovation policy. The challenge now is to...
To understand the geopolitical importance of this month’s election breakthrough for Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the small state of...
Fans of “Dragon Ball,” the seminal manga and anime in which the Saiyan is the main character, were excited by reports of a new theme park in...
Serious observers of Okinawan affairs — not the radical and often violent anti-base activists or their sympathizers in the media and academia —...
The driver of global division is, or will soon be, technology. Adoption of particular technologies — reflected to some degree in brands, but more...
URBANA, ILLINOIS – The United Nations recently released its State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 report, which, perhaps...
The far-right Alternative for Germany’s dramatic election win in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday is a watershed in the country’s...
Grueling wars are now the global norm. For years, a brutal conflict has consumed Ukraine. For months, a grinding faceoff has convulsed the Persian...
A shift in perspective is taking place among biologists and ecologists — a change in how we view the world that has significant implications for...
A new explanation for the global ruckus in sovereign bonds is becoming popular: Maybe markets and economies are simply returning to normal. After all,...
GENEVA – When Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in Washington this month, AI will be near the top of the agenda. If...
We picked a helluva time to go RVing in Canada. My wife and I crossed the border in Maine as recent trade talks in Washington were collapsing, and we...
Japan is competing in the wrong artificial intelligence race. Rather than chasing ever-larger data centers and ever-more-powerful chips, it should put...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called on Japan to hike interest rates by invoking director Spike Lee’s most famous movie and saying that...
MEXICO CITY – The wars in Iran and Ukraine have put the spotlight back on guerrilla warfare. Conflicts in which smaller groups, forces or countries...
Mere hours after the Trump administration’s latest tariff scheme launched on July 24, the government was sued again by the same small businesses...
“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years,” said President Harry S. Truman in 1948....
Japan is betting heavily on dual-use technology, but finding promising technologies is the easy part. The harder challenge is turning them into...
America remains the best country in the world to get rich. Some see this as cause for celebration, while others view it as evidence of a broken...
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