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Why Takaichi must stand up to Beijing’s bullying

When Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated on Nov. 7 that a Chinese military assault on Taiwan could constitute an existential crisis for Japan,...

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Stephen R. Nagy

Photoshopping, not chatbots, might be AI’s killer app

I had high hopes for the new generation of artificial intelligence-powered photo-editing tools. I wanted to bring the dead to life. My late...

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Catherine Thorbecke

The EU is the wrong power player for Ukraine

Late in the summer of 1939, the Soviet and German Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the infamous nonaggression...

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Marc Champion

The Vatican’s voice of reason on artificial intelligence

With artificial intelligence knocking us from our bearings, many are wondering what place humans will have in a technological revolution that is...

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Anne Bouverot

The missing ingredients for peace in Palestine

Following two years of mass killings by Israel in one of the most ruthless military campaigns in recent history, the Gaza ceasefire agreed in...

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Abdullah Gul

The U.K.'s property taxes are an irrational mess

Britain’s property-based tax for funding local services is a travesty — unfair, arbitrary and regressive. Stamp duty, which is levied on real...

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Matthew Brooker

The West is facing fearsome new 'giants'

The Second World War was won on the home front as well as the battlefield. As early as 1942, the British government pledged itself, as soon as the...

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Adrian Wooldridge

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

The autumn and early winter of 2025 has brought Japan to an unprecedented crisis: Brown bears and Asiatic black bears are appearing not only along...

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Shinsuke Koike

How an unfree press stoked the flames of Hong Kong’s deadly blaze

Did Hong Kong’s crackdown on the free press lay the kindling for last week’s massive fire that killed at least 151 people in the former British...

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Mark L. Clifford

Japan navigates the 'Goldilocks' challenge

There is no foreign and security policy challenge for Japan that tops divining U.S. policy toward China. Getting U.S. thinking right shapes — and...

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Brad Glosserman

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...

30.11.2025 6

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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...

28.11.2025 1

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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...

28.11.2025 1

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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