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The unthinkable is on the list of Japanese security options

yesterday 20

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Brad Glosserman

The FBI’s Georgia ballot raid is about 2026, not 2020

previous day 2

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Mary Ellen Klas

Japan’s bond market has a warning for America

previous day 2

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Allison Schrager

China is losing more than just two ports in Panama

previous day 2

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Is this election really unpredictable?

previous day 2

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Edo Naito

A cheat sheet to Takaichi’s snap election

tuesday 2

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

Has Takaichi secured a win? Conservative voters are returning to the LDP.

tuesday 2

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Rintaro Nishimura

Goodbye arms control, hello nuclear anarchy

tuesday 2

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Andreas Kluth

Trump, Takaichi and Japan’s strategic crossroads

tuesday 3

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Hitoshi Suzuki

Where will a Democratic Japan go from here?

tuesday 2

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Kuni Miyake

Appeasing Trump only invites betrayal — as Europe's far right just learned

tuesday 3

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Stephen Holmes

Despite failed peace talks, Ukrainians find ‘Way Home’

02.02.2026 2

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Cristina Suvorina

The 10 best and worst U.S. foreign policy decisions

02.02.2026 3

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Andreas Kluth

Sony switches off the TV and that’s just fine

02.02.2026 16

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Gearoid Reidy

Bloody Minnesota and the normalization of state violence

02.02.2026 13

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Daron Acemoglu

A breakthrough law won’t kill Korea’s AI revolution

01.02.2026 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

The cost of silence: Japan’s diminishing relevance

30.01.2026 2

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Stephen R. Nagy

Is Streeting, a slick Eastender, Britain’s next prime minister?

30.01.2026 2

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Rosa Prince

The TikTok U.S. saga isn’t over — it’s just beginning

30.01.2026 2

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Dave Lee

Time for a revamped Japan-U.K. strategic architecture

29.01.2026 2

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Thomas O. Falk

'Mrs. Watanabe', Japan's FX investing housewife, gets an anime update

29.01.2026 2

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Gearoid Reidy

Japan is getting creative with its response to the weak yen

28.01.2026 1

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Gearoid Reidy And Daniel Moss

Can China reverse its demographic decline?

28.01.2026 2

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Yi Fuxian

The age of ‘middle powers,’ hegemons and hypocrites

28.01.2026 1

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Brad Glosserman

Has Greenland become Donald Trump’s Crimea?

27.01.2026 9

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Sergey Maidukov

Japan’s new ‘Centrist Reform Alliance’ is a misnomer

27.01.2026 8

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

After Davos, bond markets are wielding a new big stick

27.01.2026 9

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John Authers

Too many kids already know someone who’s been deepfaked

27.01.2026 56

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Abby Mccloskey

A message to the world on Holocaust Remembrance Day

26.01.2026 8

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Elliott Broidy

How Asia’s Gen-Z is losing out to China's $1 trillion surplus

26.01.2026 39

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Karishma Vaswani

The takeover of all media by artificial intelligence is coming

26.01.2026 46

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Charles Ferguson

A message to the world on Holocaust Remembrance Day

26.01.2026 49

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Elliott Broidy

A pope and a president offer competing Americanisms

25.01.2026 30

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Andreas Kluth

Forget DeepSeek, dying alone is China’s latest tech obsession

25.01.2026 43

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Catherine Thorbecke

‘Carney Doctrine’ seeks refuge in Beijing’s embrace

23.01.2026 36

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Stephen R. Nagy

Iran’s supreme leader trapped in a web of his own making

23.01.2026 41

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Pegah Banihashemi

Putin’s recent silence is worrying

23.01.2026 36

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Marc Champion

After Davos, middle powers matter more than ever

23.01.2026 29

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Kumiharu Shigehara

Takaichi’s strengths and the need for ‘strategic signaling’

22.01.2026 45

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Ken Jimbo

Trump is putting Venezuelan democracy on hold

22.01.2026 27

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Piotr H. Kosicki

Takaichi’s bad tax plan isn’t worth this freak-out

22.01.2026 58

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Gearoid Reidy

R-E-S-P-E-C-T – What does it mean to Trump?

22.01.2026 48

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Brad Glosserman

Fair trade: Jimmy Lai’s freedom for China’s very big U.K. Embassy

21.01.2026 50

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Mark L. Clifford

ChatGPT's AI health care push has a fatal flaw

20.01.2026 49

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Parmy Olson

Prime Minister Takaichi’s gambit: A test of leadership

20.01.2026 57

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

K-pop stars should be allowed to love

19.01.2026 62

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Juliana Liu

Will Japan become the world’s next leader in AI?

19.01.2026 63

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Mickey Mikitani

This is not the way to make housing more affordable

19.01.2026 49

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Conor Sen

The cautionary tale of Yoon Suk Yeol and the ‘abuse of power’

19.01.2026 67

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

So what does it mean to be properly English?

19.01.2026 61

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Rosa Prince