No limit to how low the yen will go
TOKYO – Who needs Las Vegas or Macau when betting on how low the yen can go is the best game anywhere?…
TOKYO – Who needs Las Vegas or Macau when betting on how low the yen can go is the best game anywhere?…
There can be no more powerful symbol of the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea than the prime ministers of these neighboring countries walking together on the grueling Kokoda Track towards Isurava, high in PNG’s rugged Owen Stanley mountains.…
The AUKUS nations announced their “optimal pathway” in 2023, which laid out the process and timeline for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, as depicted by the slide below.…
Just as Pope Paul VI’s controversial encyclical of 1968 – “Humanae Vitae” – foretold the demographic collapse now besetting much of the world, so his landmark “Populorum Progressio: On the Development of Peoples” has proven prophetic since its publication in 1967. …
When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app.…
NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine. Soldiers from Poland, France, the UK, Finland and other NATO members are arriving in larger numbers.…
The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains.…
India has just tested an Israeli air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM), reflecting a move away from Russia as its primary supplier for high-end weapons and the possible adoption of a counterforce strategy against Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.…
The US Congress just passed — and Biden signed — a major national security bill. The bill has four main provisions: I’m actually pretty surprised this bill passed, for two reasons.…
The financial crisis of 2008 showed just how much the world depends on banks being well run. Since then, regulators have been given new powers to keep some of the biggest institutions on a much shorter leash to stamp out risk, greed and corruption.…
As Israel’s air campaign in Gaza enters its sixth month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks on October 7, it has been described by experts as one of the most relentless and deadliest campaigns in recent history.…
In the quest for a leadership ethos, can the meeting of minds between Einstein and Tagore illuminate the way? As leaders, we are prone to dismissing the opinions of others with whom we disagree, often subconsciously ignoring perspectives that diverge from our own.…
For the first several decades after World War II, the United States championed free trade. Exporting sectors like agriculture benefited from it.…
US and South Korean delegations met in Hawaii on April 23 to begin talks about how much host nation support Seoul will pay toward the cost of operating US military bases in South Korea. Under…
Beijing has called the European Union “protectionist” after the EU raided the offices of a Chinese security equipment supplier in Europe and probed into China’s procurement market for medical devices. …
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a US$95.3 billion foreign aid funding package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on April 23, 2024, following months of political infighting that stalled the bill in the House of Representatives.…
I use emotions for many and reason for few. Adolf hitler Humans are first emotional beings, then rational beings. Meaning in life is derived emotionally, not rationally. A…
Recently I’ve been writing some fairly gloomy stuff, mostly related to war and international affairs. But even though I’ve been focusing on scary happenings overseas, I’m still very optimistic about the domestic situation here in the United States.…
The US can enhance trust and partnerships in Southeast Asia and change the region’s prevailing attitudes toward the great powers by focusing on three key pillars: intelligence-sharing, presence and multilateralism.…
Singapore has launched its fourth Type 218SG Invincible-class submarine, christened the RSS Inimitable and designed specifically for operations in Singapore’s trade-congested waters, according to multiple media sources.…
The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok after the House of Representatives attached the measure to an emergency spending bill on April 17, 2024.…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is favored to win a third term in office in the country’s massive general election, ongoing in stages since April 19.…
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked the start of what should be termed – in view of the unprecedented scale and sophistication of the cyber operations that accompanied Russia’s military actions – the world’s first cyber war.…
Tehran upped the ante and scored a strategic success with its attack. Israel also achieved its outcomes. The Middle East game has become more dangerous.…
As Chinese leader Xi Jinping works to increase the yuan’s role in global trade and finance, he’s encountering an unexpected speed bump: mainland companies.…
Climate and demography are becoming two of the most interconnected issues in the 21st century. And citizens across the world are more concerned about climate issues than ever.…
China may be moving closer to the holy grail of submarine stealth technology – a propulsion system with no mechanical moving parts.…
MANILA – This week, the Philippines and United States kicked off their largest-ever and most consequential joint Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) war games featuring as many as 16,000 troops including 11,000 American servicemen.…
Georgia’s ruling party first attempted to pass a controversial bill on “foreign agents” in March 2023. The law would have required civil society groups and the media to register as being “under foreign influence” if they receive funding from abroad.…
Beijing has expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition after the United States House of Representatives passed a bill that will grant military aid to Taiwan and countries in the Indo-Pacific region.…