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,...
(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...
As part of its growing efforts to expand its global power, China, the world’s second biggest economy, says it wants to develop its raw-material markets as world hubs for setting prices, in an effort to, among other things, gain much more power in determining how...
(May 23rd, 2016) Thomas E. Patterson, of The Boston Global Forum and Harvard’s Kennedy School, in an interview with Lan Anh, a journalist with VietNamNet, discusses current and future U.S.-Vietnamese relations. He explains the roles of closer trade relations,...
(May 23rd, 2016) The Obama administration announced Monday that the United States would fully lift the U.S. embargo on arms sales to Vietnam. Mr. Obama did not say this openly, but everyone knows that the decision mostly reflects growing concerns about China’s...