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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Busan, South Korea, on Oct 30.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2025
Survival in Trump, Xi and Putin’s ‘great power’ world
Japan and other middle powers must help shape the new order — or risk becoming subject to it.
New Leopard 2A8 tanks operate during their rollout at KNDS in Munich, on Nov. 19. The German finance ministry says that Berlin rejects the creation of further financing instruments for the armaments sector.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2025
Germany turns down idea of new multilateral defense bank
Berlin’s focus is on the rapid implementation of existing instruments, a German finance ministry spokesperson says.
British Defence Secretary John Healey (center) is shown around Helsing's resilience factory in Plymouth, Britain, on Nov. 19.
WORLD / FOCUS
Dec 8, 2025
U.K.’s bold defense plans face doubt over spending gaps
Defence Secretary John Healey in June set out a 130-page defense review, calling it the first in a generation that would transform and grow the U.K. military.
Smoke billows from a blast near a tank as Polish forces hold military exercises with NATO soldiers at a range in Wierzbiny, near Orzysz, Poland, in September.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 7, 2025
U.S. sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say
The shift would dramatically change how the United States, a founding member of the postwar alliance, works with its most important military partners.
Whether it's within NATO or through bespoke coalitions, Europe must coordinate its military and diplomatic efforts to deter aggression, protect allies, and ensure it can project power effectively beyond the EU’s highly regulated and limiting institutions.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2025
The EU is the wrong power player for Ukraine
Europe lacks the institutions, resources and political cohesion to defend against Russia and China, leaving NATO, bespoke coalitions and individual nations to fill the gap.
A firefighter stands at the site of a private home that went up in flames after it was hit by a Russian drone during a night of attacks on Kyiv on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 2, 2025
Trump’s push to end Ukraine war raises fears of ‘ugly deal’ for Europe
Although Ukrainians and other Europeans pushed back against parts of a U.S. plan to end the fighting that was seen as pro-Russian, any deal could carry risks for the continent.
An Airbus attack helicopter during a NATO military training exercise in Cincu, Romania
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
NATO is preparing to confront Russia with limited U.S. support
Threats from Washington to shut off remaining military support for Kyiv has raised the possibility of European powers having to defend Ukraine with limited U.S. backing.
The navies of Japan, the U.S. and South Korea take part in a combined anti-submarine exercise in waters off South Korea's Jeju Island in April 2023. The Takaichi administration is looking to strengthen alliances to coordinate responses and mitigate regional threats under a collective deterrence approach.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 26, 2025
The argument for Indo-Pacific ‘collective deterrence’
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is boosting defense, alliances and collective deterrence to protect Japan, support allies and maintain Indo-Pacific stability.
Battle damage in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region on Nov. 15.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2025
Turn Russia’s frozen assets into incentives for peace
The West is not a spectator to this. It is the custodian of the one pressure point Putin did not foresee: His own frozen wealth.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose office said he had received a draft of the U.S.-backed plan to end the war, says Kyiv and Washington will work together on elements of it.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2025
Zelenskyy says he is ready to work on U.S.-backed plan to end war in Ukraine
European countries are pushing back against the U.S.-backed plan, but the Ukrainian president said Kyiv and Washington would work together on elements of it.
In U.S. President Donald Trump's view, wars abroad have left the U.S. military overstretched, and his answer has been to push allies in Europe and Asia to shoulder more of the burden for their own defense.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
U.S. retreat as world’s top cop under Trump opens door to regional strife
The good news is a great-power war remains unlikely.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House in Washington in August. A new study found that national security officials often overestimate their knowledge, with statements they rated as 90% likely to be true actually true only 57% of the time.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2025
Feeling confident? Think again — you’re probably wrong.
A study finds that overconfidence by many national security experts “was so extreme that it essentially canceled out the knowledge that these individuals possessed.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan attend an event at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 18, 2025
Putin’s Budapest visit makes awkward spectacle for EU and NATO
The planned meeting is a symbolic blow to the EU and NATO, as they have sought to isolate the Russian leader as a war criminal.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte gives a statement during a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO's headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2025
NATO and EU scramble to boost drone defenses to counter Russia
High-profile incidents in Poland and Estonia have set off a flurry of activity from European officials to plug gaps in the continent’s defenses.
A tram carriage displays a recruitment advertisement for the German armed forces in Berlin on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2025
Conscription row mars Germany’s push to beef up deterrence
Disagreements have emerged within Germany’s ruling coalition over whether to use a draft lottery or a purely voluntary approach in an effort to boost military recruitment.
The tanker Boracay, part of Russia's "shadow fleet" suspected of involvement in drone flights over Denmark, is escorted by a French naval vessel on Oct. 1 off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, France.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2025
Putin is taking his hybrid warfare to the sea
Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to contest the Baltic, make no mistake.
U.S. President Donald Trump outside the White House in Washington on Thursday. Trump has suggested that Spain could be removed from NATO over defense spending.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
Trump floats throwing Spain out of NATO over defense spending
Spain has previously earned Trump’s ire for rejecting calls to increase defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product.
The oil tanker Eagle S sails alongside a Finnish border guard ship and tugboat in the Gulf of Finland on Dec. 28. The vessel was seized by Finland on suspicion of damaging underwater cables in the area at the time.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2025
Russia’s hybrid war looks increasingly like the real thing
European officials are warning that Moscow appears to be “at war” with countries it hasn’t invaded yet.
Residents leave their apartment building, which was damaged by a Russian drone strike, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2025
Russia rains drones and missiles on Ukraine as Poland scrambles aircraft
The move by the NATO member came as Ukrainian officials reported missiles and drones raining down on the Lviv region near the Polish border early Sunday.
Air Self-Defense Force F-15Js arrive at RAF Coningsby in England on Sept. 18.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2025
Japan shows NATO support with first fighter jet deployment to Canada, Europe
The mission, which involved four F-15Js along with two refueling and two transport aircraft, demonstrates the Air Self-Defense Force’s long-distance operational capabilities.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Prior to launch, Japan ‘strongly urged’ China to reconsider missile test in Pacific
A missile is fired from a Chinese Navy nuclear-powered submarine on Monday.
Suspected Asian fraud ring exec served fresh warrant in Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Osaka Prefectural Police have issued arrest warrants for three people, including a suspected fraud network leader, over alleged immigration and residency violations.
Japan might be giving the currency market the silent treatment
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has issued verbal warnings recently using the same language and the same tone, saying authorities “will take appropriate action at any time, as necessary.”
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.

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