Opening Remarks of Governor Michael Dukakis at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference, March 28, 2025 Good morning, distinguished guests, friends, and colleagues. It is an honor to address you today at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference. I regret that I cannot join you in person in...
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is honored to introduce two distinguished leaders among those attending and speaking at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference: Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Minoru Kiuchi and BGF Co-Chair and CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan,...
(May 30th, 2016) President Obama, making the first visit to Hiroshima by a sitting U.S. president, asked the world to consider the site of the first atomic bombing as “the start of our own moral awakening.’’ He was in Japan to attend the G7 Summit. Mr. Obama, in...
The biggest issues at the G7 Summit have been how to get the global economy humming again; the refugee crisis in Europe and the Mideast; Chinese expansionism in the East and South China Sea, and cybersecurity. Read this link. The last item has been a priority...
(May 30th, 2016) China's Defense Ministry asserted on May 26 that its aircraft followed proper rules after two Chinese fighter jets carried out what the United States called an "unsafe" intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea,...
(May 30th, 2016) The Group of Seven (G7) leaders agreed on May 26 at their summit in Japan on the need to send a strong message to China about its maritime claims in the western Pacific, where an increasingly aggressive China has territorial disputes with Japan and...
(May 30th, 2016) China has played down the U.S. decision to lift a decades-old ban on sales of arms to Vietnam because it is trying to avoid worsening relations already strained by Chinese military expansionism in the South China Sea. On May 24, a day after U.S....
The leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies agreed May 26 to help the middle class worldwide, by spurring economic growth, fighting corruption and clamping down on international tax evasion by the rich. The agreement was reached during the...