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CrowdStrike meltdown and the price of real security

The “blue screen of death” that appeared last week on an estimated 8.5 million PCs and servers around the world running Microsoft software...

23.07.2024 20

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South China Sea ruling anniversary and the disregard for the rule of law

Last Friday marked the eighth anniversary of the Philippines-China South China Sea arbitral tribunal ruling. That decision was a win for Manila, but...

17.07.2024 30

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If a phone rings in a forest and no one answers, is it a hotline?

As tensions rise in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, it would be comforting to think that there are communication tools in place to help...

02.07.2024 30

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We’ve got to get deep-sea mining right

They call them “critical minerals” for a reason. Cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and the tongue-twisting assortment of rare earth elements (REEs)...

25.06.2024 40

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Real defense demands more than just being able to fight

As Japan modernizes its national security policies and defense capabilities, most of the attention has focused, understandably, on warfighting....

18.06.2024 20

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The U.S. debate over China policy intensifies

While there is a pretty solid consensus in the United States about how to think about China — a view that is spreading throughout the developed...

11.06.2024 30

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China is winning the communications competition

It’s only natural that we think of ourselves as “the good guys.” It’s hard to get out of bed when you know, deep down in your heart, that...

05.06.2024 20

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Echoes of 1962, the Berlin crisis and a world teetering on war

Every now and then, I come across analysis so incisive, intelligent and unsettling that I’m forced to stop and take a deep breath. Historian Philip...

28.05.2024 40

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The winding road to Japan's defense modernization

After reading last week’s column on the modernization of command and control in Japan’s military and the resulting need for a similar updating of...

21.05.2024 30

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Let the real work on Japan’s defense modernization begin

Japan has been engaged in the steady — some would say “relentless” — modernization of its national security policies and processes for over a...

14.05.2024 100

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U.S.-China tensions rise as the tides begin shifting

Can you feel the ground shifting? I’m not referring to the temblors that recently struck Japan. Rather, I’m talking about what looks like a...

01.05.2024 30

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Humanitarian catastrophes and the world's forgotten conflicts

The U.S. House of Representatives got its act together last week and passed legislation that provided $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel,...

23.04.2024 30

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Give credit where credit’s due after prime minister's outstanding U.S. summit

Last week’s Japan-U.S. summit has been rightly called historic and the beginning of a new era. It was a big deal for Tokyo and the alliance — if...

16.04.2024 20

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The world narrowly escapes a supply chain doomsday scenario

The world dodged a big one last month. Either bend an elbow or bow your head (depending on your preferred mode for giving thanks) to Andres Freund,...

09.04.2024 30

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Beware the steady creep toward crisis in the South China Sea

While attention has been focused on rising tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the real tinderbox in Southeast Asia is Second Thomas Shoal, a spit of sand...

02.04.2024 50

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What is Beijing’s ultimate endgame? The answer is clear.

A simple question hangs over China’s relations with the West: What does Beijing want? Chinese officials insist that they want a world in which all...

29.03.2024 30

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Addressing the 'blind spots' in U.S.-China relations

Traveling through China a number of years ago, I was buttonholed by an earnest young man who spent the morning trying to convince me that Taiwan was...

19.03.2024 50

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China’s ‘minimum’ nuclear deterrence is still a threat

“I was surprised by the Chinese side’s focus on survivability, on ensuring that it has a second-strike capability,” said the smart young Chinese...

13.03.2024 30

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Semiconductors are back to center stage in the Japan-U.S. alliance

Semiconductors are again a focus of the Japan-U.S. alliance. Unlike the first time this happened — in the 1980s and ‘90s when the two governments...

05.03.2024 10

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The inexorable movement toward a divided global economy

Imagine a barbell. That is, in my mind, the future shape of the global economy. Two separate spheres, one the economies of the West and the other...

28.02.2024 20

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Japan slips in the global economic rankings: So what’s next?

For the record, the author of “Peak Japan” — me — gets no satisfaction from reports that Japan has been overtaken by Germany in global...

20.02.2024 20

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U.S. allies fear the fallout of a new Trump era

It's hard to tell if Donald Trump's recent comments about his readiness to disregard treaty obligations if U.S. allies didn't live up to their...

14.02.2024 20

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2024 looks to be a very bloody year

This year could be very bloody. There is ongoing conflict in Ukraine, a vicious fight against Hamas and Iran's other proxies in the Middle East and...

08.02.2024 20

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Taylor Swift rocks the world and drives the far right crazy

I confess: I’ve never heard a Taylor Swift song. I can’t name or hum one of her tunes. I do know that she is a billion-dollar music machine, a...

06.02.2024 20

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EU’s dilemma: balancing national and economic security

The European Union last week released a package of measures that put meat on the bones of its economic security strategy. Like many governments,...

31.01.2024 20

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From 'hyperglobalization' to 'thin globalism'

Finally. After years of talk about deglobalization, decoupling and derisking, there is at long last evidence of substantive change in global economic...

23.01.2024 30

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Doves, pandas and dragons: Decoding the global political zoo

There is a brilliant "Saturday Night Live" skit from the show's early years featuring the late John Belushi as a manic meteorologist, in which he...

16.01.2024 20

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A critical year for the Japan-U.S. alliance

It is hard to appreciate how strong the Japan-U.S. relationship is right now. The two governments regularly refer to “the unprecedented strength of...

11.01.2024 20

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It's time to consider a woman to take Japan's top job

Warning: What follows is pure speculation, untainted by “informed sources in Nagatacho” or a lifetime of study of the intricacies of habatsu...

27.12.2023 40

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NATO's delicate balancing act in the Indo-Pacific

The claim that “security is indivisible,” the guiding principle of liberal democracies since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sounds reassuring...

19.12.2023 10

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The Washington-Beijing tech war is just getting started

U.S. secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo didn’t get the memo. Fireside chats are supposed to be avuncular, intimate conversations that inform and...

12.12.2023 20

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The life of the Pogues' frontman and the ‘banality of crazy’ in U.S. politics

Shane MacGowan, the captivating, charismatic, chaotic, calamitous lead singer and songwriter for the Pogues, an Irish folk punk rock band, died last...

06.12.2023 20

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