Remarks by Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum, at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference, Tokyo, March 28, 2025 Good morning, distinguished guests, honorable leaders, and friends. It is a profound privilege to stand before you today at the 4th Shinzo...
Yasuhide Nakayama, Tokyo, March 28, 2025 Today, the world stands at the beginning of an era unlike any before―a time of tremendous technological change. Among these changes, artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming how our economies and societies function,...
(June 6th, 2016) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on a trip to Canada, denounced Canadian journalist Amanda Connolly for asking an “irresponsible” question about China’s human-rights record. Ms. Connolly said: “There are no shortages of concerns about China’s...
(June 6th, 2016) James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, says that that hackers, possibly working for foreign governments, are spying on American presidential candidates. As a result, government officials are working with the campaigns to tighten...
(June 6th, 2016) On the Vermont-Quebec line, along what had been for many years a virtually open border between close allies Canada and the United States, a virtual wall has been constructed since 9/11, fraying what had been very close and fluid daily relations...
(June 6th, 2016) As Russia becomes more aggressive and implies that it might attack NATO with tactical nuclear weapons, the leadership of the alliance is trying to encourage deadbeat members to step up and pay more attention to the threat from Vladimir Putin’s...
The U.S. Federal Reserve System has detected more than 50 cyberbreaches between 2011 and 2015, with several incidents called "espionage’’. Most observers speculate that Russia and/or China, which are engaged in continuing cyberattacks against the U.S., are...
(June 7th, 2016) Some of the families of the hundreds or perhaps thousands killed by the Chinese army during the government’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China have accused Beijing of subjecting them to 27 years...