【#984】Tug-of-War over Semiconductor Supply Chains at Summit Talks
November 21, 2022 A series of multilateral summit meetings were held in Asia from November 11, including summit meetings related to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), G20 Bali Summit ...
【#983】What Can Be Learned from DeSantis’s Landslide
November 14, 2022 While Democrats have retained their control over the Senate in the U.S. midterm elections, the general trend in the House has yet to be clear. I therefore would like to focus on ...
【#982】Be Alert to Intensifying Battle for Technology under Xi
November 7, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping has entered his third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. We must pay attention to his report to the Chinese Communist Party con...
【#981】Can We Declare China Is Not a Threat?
November 7, 2022 On November 3, the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals held a symposium titled “International Order after Shinzo Abe,” inviting French historical demographer and family anth...
【#980】Unification Church Issue as Seen by a Christian
October 31, 2022 On a personal note, I am a Christian. Among Christian denominations, I belong to an evangelical Protestant believing that authentic words of Gods are written in the New and Old Te...
【#979】Small Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Still Far from Commercialization
October 31, 2022 The Japanese government on September 30 held the first meeting of an expert panel to work out a strategy for the development of a small nuclear fusion reactor that State Minister ...
【#978】Unpersuasive Reasons for Cancelling SLCM-N Development
October 31, 2022 On October 27, the U.S. Department of Defense released the National Defense Strategy (NDS), the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and the Missile Defense Review (MDR). Of them, the NPR...
【#977】Japanese National Lawmakers Neglecting Triple Crisis
October 24, 2022 A Taiwan contingency amounts to a Japan contingency, as noted by the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Today’s Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia, as pointed out ...
【#976】Nuclear Deterrence Should Not End Up as Empty Words
October 17, 2022 On October 12, the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) was released, coming up with a newly organized concept of “integrated deterrence.” It is composed of five pillars: integra...
【#975】U.S. National Security Strategy Tests Kishida’s Seriousness
October 17, 2022 The U.S. government on October 12 published the National Security Strategy (NSS) that lays the foundation for the Biden administration’s foreign and national security policies. So...