The alliance still offers a great deal of value to both countries—now and into the future—but Japan should consider a slightly larger global leadership role in concert with others, even as the allies work to enhance their continued cooperation on shared interests....
The Philippines expects the U.S. and its allies to play a vital role in its attempts to identify energy resources in the disputed South China Sea. The country has been seeking to parlay its strengthening security ties with Washington into a broader economic advantage, Jose Manuel Romualdez, the...
However, the forward-positioned Japanese and US BMD-capable vessels can blunt, slow down, or even stop China’s ballistic missiles that are headed toward Taiwan from the mainland via the Taiwan Strait. Should Japan, the US, and its allies have any form of advanced surveillance, information, ...
TOKYO (AP) — An American diplomat in Tokyo on Tuesday criticized China's “increasingly hostile maritime actions” as a threat to the safety of waterways in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific, as the United States seeks to strengthen security cooperation with allies Japan and the Philippines. U.S...
When it comes to the South China Sea, for China, it is not just a place through which the country's strategic maritime routes pass but also an essential part of its maritime domain. As opposed to the confrontational approach of the US and its two allies, China advocates using peaceful dia...
While coercive economic statecraft weakens and contains opponents, it will also harm the US itself as well as its allies. In the future, the US and Japan will further strengthen economic statecraft targeting China, but implementa...
its “containment” strategy, especially as its regional allies, such as Japan, continue to raise the stakes, edging the US toward international conflict. Ultimately, the largest change to the structure of international relations will be the West’s response to the East’s revival and rise. ...
In the end, Biden congratulated Japan on the start of its two-year term on the UN Security Council and on its presidency for the month of January. "We begin 2023 together as the closest of allies and friends, newly committed to achieving peace and prosperity, not only through our words ...
Even as Biden hails the alliance with Japan on Wednesday, officials acknowledged the concern among American allies at the prospect of a potential return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office, and what that could portend for US foreign relations. ...
Even so, Japan, like America’s allies in Europe, is very worried about the isolationism, protectionism and sheer unpredictability that could flow from a possible second Trump administration. Kishida’s team knows that it can no longer rely on a bipartisan consensus underpinning US foreign policy ...