Yasuhide Nakayama As Governor Michael Dukakis wrote in his Opening Remarks at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference on March 28, 2025, in Tokyo: “I am thrilled that Nguyen Anh Tuan will carry this message forward. His presence at this conference highlights a significant trip...
Adopted at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference, Tokyo, March 28, 2025 Preamble We, the participants of the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference, gathered in Tokyo on March 28, 2025, to honor the legacy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—a visionary leader who strengthened Japan and advanced...
(June 6th, 2016) A United Nations conference in South Korea has stressed the urgency of greater investments in global citizenship education programs around the world to unlock the potential of young people. The global education action agenda at the meeting affirmed...
(June 6th, 2016) Chung Min Lee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace writes: “…., Asia’s rise has captured the popular imagination for three decades. By most hard-power measures, such as gross domestic product, trade volumes, technological prowess and...
(June 6th, 2016) Roger Cohen, a foreign-affairs columnist for The New York Times, writes: “The best way to kick Vietnamese aspirations in the teeth, turn the country sour on the United States, and undermine the stabilizing American role in Asia, would be for Congress...
(June 6th, 2016) NATO's top military officer, Gen. Petr Pavel, has denounced U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump for calling the alliance obsolete and said that such comments played into the hands of its opponents. In unusual criticism of a presidential...
(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...