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The West is facing fearsome new 'giants'

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Adrian Wooldridge

A five-point plan to address Japan’s bear crisis

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Shinsuke Koike

The Vatican’s voice of reason on artificial intelligence

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Anne Bouverot

The missing ingredients for peace in Palestine

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Abdullah Gul

China’s dirty economic secret: its unfair labor model

In Indonesia’s nickel belt, Chinese built smelters now produce roughly two-thirds of the world’s battery grade nickel at a capital cost 40% to 60%...

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Li Qiang

Why Ukraine deserves to survive

Ukraine finds itself at a delicate and dangerous moment. It will soon be four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion; the town of...

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Anna Husarska

China holds all the cards in global pharmaceuticals

The U.S. and China may have called a truce on trade, but Beijing has other levers to pull should febrile relations deteriorate again. That’s a...

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Juliana Liu

We need to shatter one big myth about the weak yen

Timothy Geithner, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary who had extensive dealings with Japan over the course of his career, didn’t place much value...

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Daniel Moss And Gearoid Reidy

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...

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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...

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Seungjoo Lee