WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan to Tokyo this week for talks with his counterparts from Japan, Philippines and South Korea. Sullivan will also take part in “the first-ever trilateral meeting of the...
As the EU Commission is preparing its own economic security strategy, Japan has started implementing its own policies, walking the increasingly tense tightrope between China and the US. During last month’s G7 summit in Hiroshima, economic security was high on the agenda, with Europeans...
A retired People’s Liberation Army senior colonel recently wrote that the South China Sea “is far more dangerous” than Taiwan as a potential trigger for a US-China war. His reasoning was that while close encounters between US and People’s Republic of China ships and...
On Tuesday, the government of Japan adopted its first official plan for space security – and it will likely include counterstrike capabilities. “The new Basic Plan for Space Policy presents a vision of the future of security, disaster prevention and mitigation, innovation, civil...
In Tokyo, rumors are swirling that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will dissolve Japan’s House of Representatives and trigger a snap election before the parliamentary session ends on June 21. Just the possibility has legislators on Tokyo’s Capitol Hill, Nagata-cho, “on high alert...
