Taiwan’s South China Sea defense challenge
The ROC’s two territories in the region have strategic and political significance, yet both are difficult to defend. Taiwan’s Coast...
Japan
Suga-Biden meeting: Promises … promises
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joseph Biden met in Washington on April 16, and both sides declared...
View from Japan: Japan’s commitment to military contributions being tested
Editor’s note: this analysis was originally published by the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals and is reposted here with its...
Time for US, Japan to muscle up their alliance
Originally published by Asia Times Japan and US must either take some risks and bump up military cooperation or the...
Newsham: Taiwan’s Soldiers are Unprepared for a Chinese Attack
"Taiwan is the key to Asia, and China wants it now." So says China Unscripted, a popular YouTube program providing...
Japan’s Senkaku Box
Center for Security Policy Exclusive Analysis Japan is in a policy box of its own making regarding the Senkaku island...
The Fall of Taiwan: Asia Goes Red—or at Least “Pinkens”
Center for Security Policy Exclusive Analysis Asia expert, Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow and retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant...
View from Japan: Biden’s Hardline China Policy Limited to Rhetoric?
Editor’s note: this analysis was originally published by the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals and is reposted here with its...
New Pentagon Task Force on China Should Propose a Joint Command – US, Japan and Taiwan Can Combine Forces for Peace and Security
A Pentagon China Task Force was announced on February 10th at the suggestion of President Joe Biden. The new Task Force is to...
Japan Should Immediately Counter China’s New Coast Guard Law
Editor’s note: this analysis was originally published by the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals and is reposted here with its...
Unsolicited advice for next US ambo to Japan
Originally published by Asia Times Most important US bilateral relationship bar none needs strengthening. Here's how best to do it...
Trump’s Indo-Pacific policy wasn’t all wrong
Originally published by Asia Times Trump hands off to Biden an Indo-Pacific that's better off than in 2017 but there's...
Japan should take initiative with Biden on Taiwan
Originally published by Asia Times Seize Taiwan and China could cut at will sea lanes through which much of Japan’s...
Biden softness no cause to celebrate in Japan
Originally published at Asia Times Less US pressure will please some in Tokyo but for US protection against China Japan...
Never get in bed with the yakuza
Originally published by Asia Times This is the fourth of a five-part series on the yakuza’s still wide reach in...
Corporate scandals among the ways yakuza hurt Japan
Originally published by Asia Times This is the fourth of a five-part series on the yakuza’s still wide reach in...