【#766】U.S. Return to WHO Should Have Been Conditioned on Taiwan’s Invitation
February 22, 2021 The U.S. Biden administration has decided to return to the World Health Organization as well anticipated. But its failure to condition the return to the WHO on Taiwan’s partici...
【#765】Proposing British Aircraft Carrier’s Joint Exercises with Quad Forces
February 22, 2021 In November 2020, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a plan to dispatch HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier-Strike Group to the Indo-Pacific region accompanied by units of ...
【#764】Tragedy of Japan Failing to Win in Vaccine Diplomacy
February 22, 2021 China is aggressively promoting its vaccine diplomacy to provide developing countries with novel coronavirus vaccines that it has developed on its own. The approach has attract...
【#763】Move 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing
February 22, 2021 The Olympic Games have always been highly politicized, while being touted as a symbol of international peace and friendship or a sports festival. We now must pay attention to t...
【#762】Biden’s Hardline China Policy Limited to Rhetoric?
February 15, 2021 U.S. President Joseph Biden held his first telephone talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week. The White House said Biden conveyed his concerns about Beijing’s crackdo...
【#760】Japan Should Immediately Counter China Coast Guard Law
February 8, 2021 On February 1, China put its coast guard law into effect, flexing its muscles to realize the Great Revival of the Chinese Nation. The law represents a challenge to maritime orde...
【#761】U.S. Must Not Compound Its Policy Failure on Myanmar
February 8, 2021 Ever since resource-rich Myanmar gained independence, the military has been the only functioning institution in that multiethnic country, which remains troubled by ethnic insurg...
【#759】Senkaku Affair Highlights Limitations of Japan’s Constitution
February 1, 2021 I have mixed feelings about a recent development regarding a gap between China’s gradual enhancement of moves towards effective control of Japan’s Senkaku Islands over a half ce...
【#758】Call for Unity Rings Hollow
January 25, 2021 When I read the full text of U.S. President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, I was somewhat bored because he repeated all too often the explanation of “democracy” and the call for...
【#757】Behind Demotion of NK Dictator’s Sister
January 18, 2021 In the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea convened its eighth congress January 5 through 12. WPK Chairman Kim Jong Un read the party’s activit...