Newsham: Only Trump stands in way of Xi’s brutal plans for South Korea, Japan
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s lofty ambition of world dominance begins with aligning the stars in the East Asia...
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Ishiba meets Trump: A Potentially Volatile Mixture
Donald Trump…meet Shigeru Ishiba. The best part of high school chemistry class many years ago was mixing two combustible chemicals and...
US Ally To Put More Missiles Near China’s Coast
Japan plans to deploy anti-air missiles on the front line of China-Taiwan tensions, Tokyo's defense chief says. Newsweek reached out to...
Japan passes record defense budget, while still playing catch-up
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — While Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record defense budget for 2025, the 13th growth year in...
Nippon Steel and US Steel: One Last Chance, Mr Trump
Team Biden is doing so many strange things on its way out the door that nobody should have been surprised...
Japan to acquire air-to-air missiles from US as part of beefed-up defense spending
The U.S. government has proposed selling 1,200 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles to Japan to help counter threats in the Indo-Pacific...
Okinawa, It’s Still Important and Often Misunderstood
Okinawa isn't in the news so much these days. Chinese efforts to grab Philippine territory and smother Taiwan get the most attention. That doesn't mean Okinawa is...
North Korea will be ‘less emboldened’ under new Trump administration, says ex-US diplomat
North Korean state media agency KCNA says Kim Jong Un has called for officials to fundamentally and substantially improve the...
A new US president and Japan’s quadrennial neurosis
Japan has a near-nervous breakdown every four years when the Americans choose a new president. The Americans do too, but...
Japan’s new leader wants nuclear weapons
Editor's Note: This piece by Gordon Chang features quotes from CSP Senior Fellow, Grant Newsham. Japan's newly installed prime minister,...
Swallowing America’s pride would be worth it in Japanese company’s deal to buy United States Steel
Editor's Note: This is a shortened piece of Newsham's article published in Japan-Forward. “Countries have no friends … only interests”...
The Nippon Steel deal, taking another look
"Countries have no friends….just interests" ー or so goes the paraphrased version of Lord Palmerston's statement. That was so cynical...
The best advice America ever got about dealing with Japan
The following clips are from an hour-long interview Grant Newsham did with China Unscripted on increasing tensions between China and...
A new Japanese prime minister: Does it matter for Japan’s defense?
Fumio Kishida won’t be Japan’s prime minister after September. Kishida served longer than most—nearly three years. However, Japanese prime ministers,...
Japan must do much more for Taiwan
A bipartisan delegation of Japanese politicians visited Taiwan last week, marking the latest of several visits by Japanese Diet members over the...
After Kishida’s exit, Japan’s next leader must boost defense capabilities to be a better ally to US: Newsham
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is preparing to step down, with a new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party to...