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Brad GlossermanThe Japan Times |
Can you feel the ground shifting? I’m not referring to the temblors that recently struck Japan. Rather, I’m talking about what looks like a...
The U.S. House of Representatives got its act together last week and passed legislation that provided $95 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Israel,...
Last week’s Japan-U.S. summit has been rightly called historic and the beginning of a new era. It was a big deal for Tokyo and the alliance — if...
The world dodged a big one last month. Either bend an elbow or bow your head (depending on your preferred mode for giving thanks) to Andres Freund,...
While attention has been focused on rising tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the real tinderbox in Southeast Asia is Second Thomas Shoal, a spit of sand...
A simple question hangs over China’s relations with the West: What does Beijing want? Chinese officials insist that they want a world in which all...
Traveling through China a number of years ago, I was buttonholed by an earnest young man who spent the morning trying to convince me that Taiwan was...
“I was surprised by the Chinese side’s focus on survivability, on ensuring that it has a second-strike capability,” said the smart young Chinese...
Semiconductors are again a focus of the Japan-U.S. alliance. Unlike the first time this happened — in the 1980s and ‘90s when the two governments...
Imagine a barbell. That is, in my mind, the future shape of the global economy. Two separate spheres, one the economies of the West and the other...
For the record, the author of “Peak Japan” — me — gets no satisfaction from reports that Japan has been overtaken by Germany in global...
It's hard to tell if Donald Trump's recent comments about his readiness to disregard treaty obligations if U.S. allies didn't live up to their...
This year could be very bloody. There is ongoing conflict in Ukraine, a vicious fight against Hamas and Iran's other proxies in the Middle East and...
I confess: I’ve never heard a Taylor Swift song. I can’t name or hum one of her tunes. I do know that she is a billion-dollar music machine, a...
The European Union last week released a package of measures that put meat on the bones of its economic security strategy. Like many governments,...
Finally. After years of talk about deglobalization, decoupling and derisking, there is at long last evidence of substantive change in global economic...
There is a brilliant "Saturday Night Live" skit from the show's early years featuring the late John Belushi as a manic meteorologist, in which he...
It is hard to appreciate how strong the Japan-U.S. relationship is right now. The two governments regularly refer to “the unprecedented strength of...
Warning: What follows is pure speculation, untainted by “informed sources in Nagatacho” or a lifetime of study of the intricacies of habatsu...
The claim that “security is indivisible,” the guiding principle of liberal democracies since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sounds reassuring...
U.S. secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo didn’t get the memo. Fireside chats are supposed to be avuncular, intimate conversations that inform and...
Shane MacGowan, the captivating, charismatic, chaotic, calamitous lead singer and songwriter for the Pogues, an Irish folk punk rock band, died last...
This column is not as wonky or theoretical as it seems. I promise. Central to the practice of foreign policy is signaling. Allies and adversaries have...
The firing last week of Sam Altman, the charismatic chairman of OpenAI, stunned the tech world — and just about everyone else who is paying...
Every year for over a decade, I have ventured to Innsbruck, nestled in Austria’s Tyrol region, to enlighten students at the Management Center of...
The recent death of former Premier Li Keqiang triggered the usual wild speculation about what really goes on behind the scenes in Chinese politics....
I spent much of last week discussing economic security in conferences here in Tokyo and in Taipei. That wasn’t a surprise since the topic dominates...
Geopolitical tensions are on the rise and politicians, policymakers and pundits now consider them inescapable and increasingly powerful influences on...
“American leadership is what holds the world together,” insisted U.S. President Joe Biden last week in a speech to the U.S. public. His Oval...
Western governments continue to put the squeeze on China’s ability to develop cutting-edge semiconductors. The Biden administration just announced...
The allure of the Chinese market is nigh irresistible. The world’s second largest economy has over 400 million middle-class consumers and a growing...
When I was a wee little thing, I sniffed at the idea of being a journalist, reasoning that I would rather make the news than report it. After a while...
Independent Polish media report that a U.S. ship that was supposed to pick up military equipment was refused access to the Polish port of Gdynia last...
Automobiles are in my blood. My grandfather sold cars and was at one time — so I was told — the biggest dealer in the United States. (That was the...
Let’s talk about telephones. To begin, here is some housekeeping: All of you with Apple iPhones or who use the iOS system should download and...