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2026, shares the anti-China feelings of most Japanese hard-liners. This colours her foreign policy. How and when does an ally become an adversary, or an adversary an ally? Japan changed to adversary back in the 1930s due mainly to its bad behaviour towards China. Its change back to the ally
So, finally there is some room for principles in Japanese politics after all! Not much, but when it comes to the point of white having to embrace black something has to give. When the Buddhist Komei party, nearly three decades ago, jettisoned its pacifistic, pro-China principles for an electoral alliance
With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending the SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) meeting in China this week, we may be witnessing a tectonic shift in international relations, one which could undermine the basis of Australia’s relations with Asia. Apart from anything else, how is Canberra’s much-favoured QUAD (Japan, India, Australia,
People from the parties that had just tried to vote him out of that office were demanding he stay in that office. While small, the demonstration was significant, for several reasons. First was the fact that while many in Japan are angry after recent exposes of corruption in the Liberal
People from the parties that had just tried to vote him out of that office were demanding he stay in that office. While small, the demonstration was significant, for several reasons. First was the fact that while many in Japan are angry after recent exposes of corruption in the Liberal
There was a time when Australian writings on China were first-class._ _ C.P. Fitzgerald’s classic, for example, ‘The Birth of Communist China’gave us a unbiassed insight to the factors that propelled the Communist forces to their 1949 victory. Postwar, the few who managed to get into China gave us a useful
July 9, 2025 Here in Japan that is partly true. The absence of media, political, academic and other forms of serious interest in Japan that I see around me is sad. But at the youth level there is enormous interest, and it owes much to none other than Menadue. As
After a long hiatus, relations between China and Japan are finally stirring into action. In late December, Japanese Foreign Minister, Iwaya Takeshi, visited China, where he met his counterpart Wang Yi and other Chinese officials. In the tradition of the 1971 Nagoya ping-pong diplomacy (which saw the diplomatic map of
As President Trump seeks to bring an end to the Ukrainian conflict, at the Asian end of the Eurasian continent some similar but much less known peace-restoring movements are underway. If both succeed the Eurasian continent could begin to move from an era of incessant conflict to one of ultimate
Begins: It was Kipling, born 1865 India and died 1936 London, who famously said ‘East is East, West is West and never the Twain shall meet.’ Kipling seemed proved right when the honeymoon relations between the Soviet Union and Communist China in the fifties erupted into the vicious Sino-Soviet dispute