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Last week’s visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has worsened tensions in the Taiwan Strait and pushed...
There’s a lot of talk about decoupling the Chinese and Western economies. The most ambitious version of that vision, that of two separate spheres of...
There is virtual unanimity that mastery of emerging technologies is key to prevailing in the 21st-century geopolitical competition. And as Russian...
Will history judge Park Jin’s trip to Japan this week — a mere month and a half after taking office as South Korea’s foreign minister — as the...
There is in Western capitals considerable confusion, disappointment and dismay at much of the world’s reaction to the invasion of Ukraine. The...
We’re not supposed to call today’s competition between the United States and China a new Cold War. That makes some sense — the historical...
It is difficult to appreciate how much the Indo-Pacific security environment has changed. The fact that we now commonly refer to the...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered the keynote speech at last weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue — and that’s a big deal. The annual meeting,...
It’s been three years since the publication of “Peak Japan” and I’ve concluded that I have half a glass. My book has received both applause...
In foreign policy, like physics, every action generates an opposite reaction. The challenge is figuring out what triggered what, what is cause and...
By just about every metric, U.S. President Joe Biden’s five-day trip to Japan and South Korea will be judged a success. He confirmed the vitality of...
Japan last week passed its long-anticipated economic security bill. The legislation is the product of foundational changes in the global economy and a...
Make no mistake: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un truly believes he needs nuclear weapons. For years, that need reflected a single objective: the...
As a teenager, I read “The Day of the Dolphin,” a Cold War potboiler about a scientist who teaches dolphins to communicate with humans. The...
When we think about Big Tech, five companies come immediately to mind: Alphabet (more commonly known as Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook in its...
In many ways, the invasion of Ukraine is a head scratcher — the how, that is, not the why. Wars of naked aggression are products of the industrial...
I have become over the last year a baseball aficionado. Not a fan, mind you: I am indifferent to which team wins or loses a particular game. No, I...
Two weeks ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy excoriated the United Nations Security Council for failing to protect his country and he...
A U.S.-China trade war, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are three blows that spell, for a growing number of observers, an end...
In moments of crisis, we turn to history to make sense of the current situation and see if there are lessons that can help us navigate those...
Readers beware: Halloween comes early this year. This is a scary column. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of artificial intelligence....
How far will Russian President Vladimir Putin go to win his war in Ukraine? The question looms larger and more worrying as the invasion slows and his...
How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impact the Indo-Pacific? Much depends on how the crisis resolves, but it’s not likely to shape events as...
As the Ukraine crisis unfolds, the world is asking if the West misread Vladimir Putin. The far more pertinent question is how well such countries read...
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed these days. There’s climate change, vast refugee movements, economic uncertainty and endless arguing about how to...
At first glance, the aborted sale of Arm Ltd., the U.K. semiconductor designer, to Nvidia Corp., a U.S. semiconductor company, is a cautionary tale...
Among the many benefits that China anticipated from hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, one of the most important and subtle was the boost it would...
If the headline for this article was merely clickbait, it surely should read “Japan is behind the Ukraine crisis.” While there are facts that...
Since COVID-19 restrictions have eliminated most international travel, readers probably didn’t pay much attention to reports last week that the...
Russia’s relations with the West have plummeted, reaching their lowest point since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Some observers worry that...
The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) between Japan and Australia is a big deal. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is right to call it “a landmark...
In 1978, Peter Matthiessen published “The Snow Leopard,” which detailed his quest to find a snow leopard. It is a “great cat” that inhabits...
In over two decades of work in think tanks and foreign policy research, the most important, rewarding and frustrating project that I have been...
December marked the passing of Robert Michael Nesmith and Robert Warren Dale Shakespeare — two musicians whose names, I’m pretty sure, will be...
Democracy is in retreat, attacked by forces from outside and, more worrying, from within. Those sustained and alarming challenges prompted U.S....
After he launched the Belt and Road initiative (BRI), the multitrillion-dollar infrastructure development program that is reshaping global...
Enlightened self-interest — ensuring that the developing world is getting COVID-19 vaccines — isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. That...
Don’t believe everything you read in the media. While headlines after last week’s three-hour “virtual summit” between U.S. President Joe Biden...