KISHIDA AND XI PORTRAY WORLD’S GOOD AND EVIL IN SEPARATE SUMMITS
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has finally made it to Kyiv. Late on March 20, Kishida climbed aboard a chartered plane at New Delhi en route to Ukraine via Poland for a summit with Ukrainian Presid…
DEVASTATION INEVITABLE IF CHINA ATTACKS TAIWAN AND JAPAN
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes on March 17, holding him responsible for the abduction of children…
WHY JAPAN MUST BOLSTER TIES WITH SOUTH KOREA DESPITE OUTSTANDING ISSUES
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will be visiting Japan this week with a resolve to settle a dispute involving Korean workers mobilized to work in wartime Japan that has plunged the bilateral…
CONCERTED EFFORTS NEEDED TO DISCOURAGE XI FROM INVADING TAIWAN
On March 5, outgoing Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered his last Government Work Report on the opening day of China’s National People’s Congress. One could read multiple messages in Li’s even-t…
HELPING UKRAINE WILL HELP JAPAN STAND TALL
World events are moving so fast it seems almost impossible to keep up. On February 18, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Munich, …
