Japan

The density of foreign policy activities by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cannot but attract attention. At the end of April, he received German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Tokyo. Immediately after that, he went on a week-long tour to three countries in Southeast Asia and a subsequent flight to Europe. There, he held talks with...

In the current stage of the Great Game - the global geopolitical power struggle in which the contestants are behaving more and more like the inmates of a madhouse - the world is seeing words take on new meanings. And one of the most important words in this Newspeak is “sexism.” This term, or rather a marker - a bit like the code words used by fighter pilots...

A new (19th) Shangri-La Dialogue was held in Singapore on June 10-12 to discuss regional security issues. It was initiated and co-organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, which is rightly seen as one of the world’s most respected “think tanks” specializing in research on a wide range of issues summarized by the Institute’s name. Its most famous...