Indian foreign minister defends ties with Myanmar junta

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“Our relationship is not something which should be judged … by the politics of the day,” Jaishankar told an audience at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. As a direct neighbour India could not avoid dealing with the military junta regime because of border issues such as organised crime, coronavirus and IndianContinue Reading

Japan’s missing nuclear energy policy

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Signs from an anti-nuclear protest against the Japanese government in Tokyo. Photo: iStock

The urgent global need to meet climate ambitions, growing uncertainty about securing vital energy resources due to the ongoing Russia–Ukraine conflict and the inability of renewable resources to meet exponentially rising energy demand is bringing momentum back to the nuclear energy debate. Some argue that a zero-carbon future will remain an unattainable dream if nuclear energy is […]

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No easy middle way for Japan on Taiwan

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At a time when geopolitical storms are hammering Taiwan’s coast, Japan’s senior national security official met his Chinese opposite number for seven hours of talks in the Chinese city of Tianjin on Wednesday (August 17), Japan’s Kyodo News Wire reported. The development comes amid a newly activist US stance on Taiwan, with two groups of […]

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High-ranked Japan and China officials hold seven-hour talks

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But during the meeting, which included dinner, the high-ranked men took the opportunity to discuss an array of geopolitical issues. Akiba “conveyed Japan’s position” on Taiwan to Yang, and stressed the importance of “peace and stability” in the Taiwan Strait, the National Security Secretariat official said. Their meeting was heldContinue Reading