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The cost of silence: Japan’s diminishing relevance

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Stephen R. Nagy

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

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Rosa Prince

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

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Dave Lee

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

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Thomas O. Falk

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

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Gearoid Reidy

Japan is getting creative with its response to the weak yen

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Gearoid Reidy And Daniel Moss

Can China reverse its demographic decline?

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Yi Fuxian

The age of ‘middle powers,’ hegemons and hypocrites

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Brad Glosserman

Has Greenland become Donald Trump’s Crimea?

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Sergey Maidukov

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

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

After Davos, bond markets are wielding a new big stick

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John Authers

Too many kids already know someone who’s been deepfaked

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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

Komeito and CDP form new party, but doubts linger over political viability

18.01.2026 49

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Edo Naito

China proves skeptics right about export controls

18.01.2026 72

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Brad Glosserman

The ‘Great Game’ enters uncharted territory

17.01.2026 66

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Kuni Miyake

Why the challenge to Iran’s regime is different this time

16.01.2026 52

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Vali Nasr

Why is Putin silent on the capture of Maduro?

16.01.2026 40

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Nina L. Khrushcheva

Japan is right to rethink its immigration approach

16.01.2026 48

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Gearoid Reidy

Feminism’s failures and the secret to Takaichi’s success

16.01.2026 59

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Waka Ikeda

Can Japan’s popular new leader beat the heat with a snap election?

15.01.2026 41

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Gearoid Reidy

Silence won’t protect the Bank of Japan’s independence

15.01.2026 46

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Kumiharu Shigehara

Japan can keep calm and carry on decoupling from China

14.01.2026 68

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Gearoid Reidy

Simple reforms could help prevent the next ICE shooting

14.01.2026 68

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Erika D. Smith

Canada undermines its own China engagement

14.01.2026 73

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Stephen R. Nagy

Why Takaichi would call a snap election

13.01.2026 69

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

The U.S. sphere of influence is bigger than it looks

13.01.2026 68

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John Authers

Japan can no longer afford strategic confusion

13.01.2026 56

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Taniguchi Tomohiko

The economic roots of Iran’s unrest

13.01.2026 75

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Djavad Salehi-Isfahani