PMs from Abe to Ishiba have tailored state dinners to individual foreign leaders As Japan faces a security environment that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says is the most complex since the end of World War II, the country has been relying on a diplomatic tactic it has...
Boston, MA – May 04, 2025 – The Boston Global Forum (BGF) has announced the launch of efforts to develop the Foundational AIWS Economic Charter for the New Economic Alliance (NEA), a groundbreaking initiative uniting the United States of America, Japan, India,...
(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...
(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...