Mark Kennedy An issue getting scant attention should be among the most pressing concerns for the US. Preserving our innovation and technological edge and leadership is imperative to our economic success and to our national security. Yet that leadership faces...
Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and SecurityINTRODUCTIONPrime Minister Shinzo Abe, the first leader who received the World Leaders Award for Peace and Security honored by the Boston Global Forum (BGF) on 12/12/2015, has dedicated to Japan and to world’s peace and...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on a four-day visit to Malaysia and Indonesia ending Jan 12, sought to deepen military, economic and energy security ties as China’s influence in South-east Asia loomed large. The significance that he chose these countries as...
On November 25, 2024, at Harvard University Loeb House, the Honorable Mark Kennedy, Director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, Member of the BGF Board of Thinkers, and an enthusiastic leader of the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and...
Yasuhide Nakayama, former Japanese State Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense, Chief of the Shinzo Abe Initiative in East Asia, and Representative of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) in Japan and Taiwan, is the Coordinator of the Enlightenment in Action Alliance (EAA)...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump reportedly discussed the security environment surrounding China and Taiwan when he met with Akie Abe, the widow of late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, earlier this month. According to sources, Trump said during the meeting, with a...
Akie Abe, the widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will meet U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to a CNN report. She is expected to dine with Trump, who is set to begin his second term next...
At the Boston Global Forum conference honoring French President Emmanuel Macron with the “2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award,” Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, Yi-Jing Lin, spoke at the “AIWS – New Democracy” panel session on “Strategies for...