CHINA TAKES WORLD BY STORM WITH BALLOONS AND DRONES
On February 4, a US Air Force jet downed a huge Chinese surveillance balloon over the water off the coast of South Carolina. Launched from its home base on China’s Hainan Island on January 28, th…
MEMOIR DEPICTS SHINZO ABE’S LIFELONG BATTLE
Shinzo Abe: A Memoir has just been published. Veteran journalist Goro Hashimoto, who recorded the late prime minister’s recollections in a series of interviews, says it was print-ready a year ago…
JAPAN NEEDS DRASTIC MEASURES TO REVERSE DECLINING BIRTHRATES
On January 17, China’s population at the end of 2022 was widely reported to have registered a decline of 850,000 from a year before. Earlier reports showed that China’s working population had beg…
USAF GENERAL WARNS OF US-CHINA CLASH OVER TAIWAN IN 2025
A four-star US Air Force general predicts the US and China will clash over Taiwan in 2025. “I hope I am wrong… (but) my gut feeling tells me we will fight in 2025,” wrote General Michael …
JAPAN MUST NOT BE LURED INTO UNWISE COMPROMISE WITH SOUTH KOREA
Relations between Japan and South Korea have long been strained over a host of seemingly endless historical issues. At the forefront now is potential compensation for wartime conscripted Korean w…
