Taipei is very closely watching Beijing’s actions in Hong Kong—and so far it doesn’t like what it sees.

When good guys have preponderant power, things tend to be all right—even with a Chinese accent.

In the March 23 issue of The National Interest Amitai Etzioni castigated Japan and the United States for jointly pursuing a policy of containing China. The United States, he said, would be drinking from a “poisoned chalice ” if it supported the nationalist ambitions of Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an LDP leader who […]

For more than a century, Japan has pioneered global political trends. That it is now gravitating, truly for the first time, towards a revitalizing democratic West speaks volumes.

Power still depends on aligning political scope with economic reality.