Having frightened Japan with ill-informed and reckless tweets both during the campaign and afterwards, Trump will now try to “schmooze over” the damage he’s done. […]
Trump was forced by members of his personal and policy “inner circle” to reverse himself and accept the “One China” policy. As with the Muslim […]
Trump’s ignorant and provocative attitude towards China has put him in a weak position vis-a-vis Xi Jinping. As we’ve noted, the situation in East Asia […]
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s assurances to Tokyo about the Daioyu / Senkakus – and South Korea about an anti-missile defense system – prompted China to […]
Top: US Defense Secy Mattis w Japan PM Shinzo Abe & Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, in blue shoes. Bottom: Mattis reviewing South Korean troops dressed […]
As long as Trump & Tillerson — aka TNT — keep picking unwinnable fights with China, Mattis can make all the reassurance trips he wants […]
Alarmed, foreign officials are struggling to gauge whether they can depend on the US to honor commitments like defense treaties and trade pacts. “President Trump’s […]
Thae Yong-ho, middle, the highest-ranking North Korean official in years to flee, said In Seoul on Wednesday that the regime’s nuclear ambitions remain central, even […]
Donald Trump the candidate denounced China’s trade policies. But one of his first acts as president handed the country its best chance yet to rival the […]
The $100bn multilateral organisation was founded last year with 57 founding shareholders in spite of opposition from the US. AIIB is keeping its door open […]
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