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LATEST ARTICLES ( 209 )

• Can Britain Draw India into the West?

  

  The war in Ukraine has starkly divided the world into Western democracies and Russo-Chinese autocracies. However, some democratic nations that were invited to... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2022 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Case Against Emmanuel Todd’s View on Russia

  

  Renowned French historian Emmanuel Todd had an interview with NHK of Japan in a TV program "News Watch 9" on May 6, about the current war in Ukraine and its... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2022 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Russia’s War in Ukraine and Manipulation to Destroy Western Democracy

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, as if filling the power vacuum of international politics, after US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The war... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2022 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Should We Decide National Defense Spending by GDP Ratio?

  

  Ever since the Cold War era, defense spending has been a critical issue of burden sharing between the United States and its allies. Quite frequently, allies... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2021 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Afghan Withdrawal and Western Self-defeatism

  

  The world was pleased when Joseph Biden edged out Donald Trump in the US presidential election last November. The cohesion of Western alliance was reconfirmed a... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2021 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Japanese Prime Minister on the Global Stage

  

  This June was a monumental season of big diplomatic events, from the G7 Carbis Bay to the US-Russian summit. However, it appeared that Prime Minister Yoshihide... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2021 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Asian Hate and Awareness of International Affairs Among the Japanese

  

  In America and Europe, Asian hate has risen sharply since the corona outbreak from Wuhan of China in December in the year before the last year, and the Biden... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2021 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is Biden’s Foreign Policy Red Line?

  

  In the previous post, I quoted a column by Max Boot, that presents insightful views about Biden's red line against Iranian attacks on US interests in the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2021 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden’s Sense of Balance in His Diplomacy

  The global community is keenly watching how much President Joseph Biden is going to shift his country away from America First of Donald Trump. This February,... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2021 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Should America Restore Trust from the World?

  

  The presidential election this November resulted in the loss of Donald Trump, who advocated America First. Though foreign policy was not a top issue for voters... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2021 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• US Presidential Election and Japanese Foreign Policy

  

  Every time when the presidential election in the United States, Japanese people from experts to the general public, argue which candidate is better for Japan.... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Don’t Trust Pompeo’s Cause of Freedom and Democracy

  

  Unlike Europeans, Japanese, particularly right wingers, praise Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's causes for freedom of the Uyghur and Hong Kong. Come to think... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Catastrophe of US Troop Withdrawal from Germany

  

  President Donald Trump declared abruptly that he would pull out 9,500 soldiers from Germany this July, which dismayed national security officials of both... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2020 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Russia’s Constitutional Amendment and Foreign Policy

  

  Russian Duma and the Constitutional Court approved the constitutional amendment by President Vladimir Putin last March ("Russian Lawmakers Adopt Putin's Sweepin... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2020 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• US Presidential Election and the Middl East

  

  It is anticipated that the rapid increase of shale oil and gas production could accelerate American isolationism and disengagement from the Middle East.... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2020 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Ambiguity of the Indo-Pacific Strategy

  

  At the end of the last year, I had some opportunities to attend a couple of public forums on the Indo-Pacific strategy to defend the freedom of navigation and... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2020 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Further World Disorder by Trump’s Hazonian Nationalism

  

  Quite paradoxically, nationalism can make the nation mediocre in the world. Currently, populist nationalism of US President Donald Trump turns out caustically... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Really Begins to Abandon American Hegemony from Syria

  

  The global community was startled to hear that President Donald Trump would withdraw US troops from Syria, and abandon the Kurds, who have been a long time... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2019 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The trans-Atlantic Chasm Undermines the US-Japanese Alliance

  It is commonly assumed that the US-Japanese alliance is a security partnership in the Pacific region, but I would like to see this strategic linchpin from the... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2019 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Corrosion of American Democracy and the World in Disorder

  

  The gravest challenge to the liberal world order is the growing challenges by autocratic nations, while Western democracies lose confidence in their systems... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2019 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY