For Japan’s new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, expectations are mixed. On the positive side, she rose to power through political and bureaucratic experience rather than family connections. Yet her ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s ...

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Join ASPI for a timely webinar to unpack the outcomes of President Trump’s visits to Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea.

Syameer Luthfy bin Hamzah is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International and ASEAN Studies (IINTAS), where his work focuses on defence studies, ASEAN regionalism, trade, political economy, and ...

President Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Wednesday, shortly after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil ...

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Christopher Luxon is heading to Asia for a diplomatic double-header. New Zealand’s prime minister is attending both the East ...

Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos ...

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, is an unabashedly conservative icon of Japanese politics.

The string of purges in the PLA suggests an existential struggle between the old and new guard. And now there’s a clear ...