Hiroshi Yuasa's Archives
【#732】China’s Aggression Getting Quad-plus Moving
October 26, 2020 During his Southeast Asian tour last week, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga consistently advocated a “free and open Indo-Pacific” with China in mind. On the way paved by his...
【#725(Special)】Hoping for Quad to Develop into Indo-Pacific Alliance
October 8, 2020 A recent movement towards building a new security framework in the Indo-Pacific by the loose quadrilateral security dialogue among Japan, the United States, Australia and India i...
【#721(Special)】Suga Should Not Invite Xi as State Guest
September 23, 2020 While new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has many things to do, what he should not do is to invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Japan as a state guest. Annoye...
【#713】Ripe for Upgrading “Quad” Dialogue
August 31, 2020 Political vacuums in Japan and the United States due to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s resignation and approaching U.S. presidential election could stimulate expansionist C...
【#691(Special)】Clever Strategy for Deterring Wounded Dragon
June 15, 2020 Historian Niall Ferguson in his review of past pandemics has pointed out that unknown viruses could intensify existing tensions between social classes and between nations. Chinese Pr...
【#682】Involve Europe in Indo-Pacific Strategy
May 25, 2020 Is Chinese President Xi Jinping a national salvation leader or an oppressive dictator? Xi clearly attempted to position himself as the former at China’s National People’s Congress leg...
【#675】Post-Corona Clash Expected between U.S. and Chinese Models
April 20, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic originating from China’s Wuhan has exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s behavior of taking advantage of the pandemic to receive favors from other countries...
【#658】Disease of Autocracy Covering up Inconvenient Truth
February 25, 2020 It may be natural for an authoritarian regime to cover up an inconvenient truth. For the reason of a column headline, China has expelled three correspondents of The Wall Street J...
【#627】A Day When Japan Could Become “Asian Kurds”
October 15, 2019 Hadn’t the Kurds been a U.S. ally that would stand or fall together with U.S. forces in fighting against the cruel Islamic State terrorist group? The recent U.S. decision to withd...
【#603】Clash of Values Coming after G20 Summit?
June 24, 2019 Now that the Group of 20 summit for multilateral cooperation after the 2008 financial crisis has weakened its coordinating function, the flow of the whole conference will...