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Japan Has Finally Drawn the Line - A Trapped Beijing Knows It

The recent Sino-Japan tension over Taiwan and Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s comments on defending Taiwan reflects the underlying power tension that has always been prevalent, but so far managed by conventional norms. The buck stops with Takaichi
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Takaichi 101: How To Torpedo Relations With China In A month

On November 7, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could undoubtedly be “a situation that threatens Japan’s survival,” thereby implying that Tokyo could respond by dispatching Self-Defense Forces
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The Falling Popularity Of The Sanseito, Party Rewriting Japanese History

However, starting in August 2025, the party’s ratings began to decline, while the popularity of the widely criticized largest conservative force, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), began its rise that same month. In this article, we will examine the reasons behind these events
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Japanese Companies Compensate Bangladeshi Workers In Their Malaysian Factories

The darker side to global supply chains was again well illustrated recently in slavery like conditions endured by hundreds of Bangladeshi migrant workers at Kawaguchi Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian supplier of plastic parts for TVs and air conditioners to Sony, Panasonic and Daikin
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Commemorating The "Second Victory": The End Of WW2 In Asia

While the end of World War 2 (WW2) has been endlessly discussed in light of the 80th anniversary of the fall of Nazi Germany on May 9, 1945, the global conflict stretched on for several more bloody months in Asia where Fascist Japan fought to the bitter end from the islands of the Pacific to the plains of Manchuria and jungles of Southeast Asia with the war finally ending on Sept. 3, 1945
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Major Asian Investment Firms Caught By Fraud

Two of Asia’s biggest investment firms have found themselves swindled by eFishery, an Indonesian “unicorn” supposedly providing technology and data to improve the operations of fish and shrimp farmers
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America Must Get Its Mind Right To Defeat China

The War of 1812 is a mindbender among naval wars. Seldom does a society mistake defeat for victory and codify the loser strategy as the playbook for future conflicts
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The Quad’s New Staying Power

The Quad Summit hosted by outgoing President Biden in Delaware on September 21 remains a cornerstone and symbol of the Quad’s resilience and strength
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Asia-Pacific And World Order On The Cusp Of Change

Asia- Pacific leaders will discover - as Australians are finding with AUKUS - that the price for being deputy sheriff to the US will cost them and the coming generation more than just an exorbitant monetary sum
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Wall Street Sell-Off Exposes Financial Parasitism

The gyrations on Wall Street and global markets underscore the extreme fragility of the world financial system due to speculation and financial parasitism, which have been sustained by the pumping of cheap money from the US Federal Reserve and other central banks
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BRICS And De-Dollarization, How Far Can It Go?

WASHINGTON, US: As the current chair of BRICS, Russia is pursuing a rather extensive agenda related to finance that includes enhancing the role of member countries in the international monetary and financial system and developing interbank cooperation and settlements in national currencies.
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US-led Quadrilateral Defense Talks Deemed To Target SCS, Exacerbating Regional Risks

BEIJING, China: As the defense chiefs of the US, Australia, Japan and the Philippines are set to meet again in early May in a meeting that is believed to focus on South China Sea issues, Chinese analysts warned on Sunday the quadrilateral clique is unsustainable and bound to show cracks and divisions as their moves will ultimately lead to a deterioration of the Philippines' strategic security environment.
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The Shortsighted US-Japan-South Korea Military Pact

WASHINGTON, US: Driven by their common perception that North Korea and China posed growing threats to their nations’ security, U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed at last August’s summit at Camp David to elevate trilateral military ties to an unprecedented level.
 
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