2018, June Archives
June 25, 2018 I take a positive view of the results of the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit on June 12. This is because the joint statement by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean l...
【#523】Get rid of Positioning U.S. as Pike and Japan as Shield
June 25, 2018 At a press conference after his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, U.S. President Donald Trump offered to suspend U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises as they ar...
【#522】Trump’s “Money First” Is Problematic
June 18, 2018 The agreement at the first ever summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore on June 12 is too vague to lead us to become confident that North Korea will really...
June 15, 2018 The recent U.S.-North Korea summit has made great progress toward rescuing Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea. U.S. President Donald Trump told a press conference that he...
【#520(Special)】Precarious U.S.-North Korea Political Show
June 14, 2018 Surely, June 12 when a U.S.-North Korea summit took place has become a historic day. This is because the two countries’ theatrical political leaders broadly reached an agreement...
【#519】Remember Significance of G7 Summit
June 11, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel described U.S. President Donald Trump’s talks with six other leaders at a Group of Seven summit in Italy’s Taormina last year as not very unsatis...
【#518(Special)】Belt and Road Initiative Starts Backspin
June 4, 2018 China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a modern silk road economic zone ambition, has started a backspin at last. In Malaysia that had attempted to join the BRI, a new administr...
【#517】China Creating Its Own International Standards
June 4, 2018 Shangri-La Dialogue 2018, an Asian security summit attended by defense ministers and senior military officers, took place in Singapore last weekend. Until two years ago, China ha...