Initiative

U.S. officially launches cyberwar on Islamic State

(April 11st, 2016) The U.S. government has officially announced that it is launching cyberwarfare against the so-called Islamic State, in the first case of the U.S. publicly disclosing cyberattacks in warfare, although it has acted before against U.S. foes with...

Links to Chinese officials in offshore tax-haven document drop

(April 11st, 2016) Perhaps not surprisingly,  “the Panama Papers’’ -- the stunning pile  of documents involving national leaders and powerful businesspeople  around the world using offshore tax havens – includes the names of family members of major Chinese government...

More security needed around nuclear material

(April 11st, 2016 ) The terrorists in Brussels had been trailing a senior Belgian nuclear official. The strong implication is that ISIS would be pleased to stage an attack with nuclear material – perhaps not a nuclear explosion itself,  but rather they would  use...

BGF-G7 Summit Initiative hosts conference in Tokyo

(April 11th, 2016) The Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted a conference in Tokyo on March 28 as part of its BGF-G7 Summit Initiative.  The Initiative, a collaboration with the Japanese government, has prepared policy prescriptions to be considered by national leaders at...

Fight over data privacy may be just starting

(April 4th, 2016) The end of Apple’s fight over the FBI’s demand that the company give the agency access to what’s inside the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists may be just the start of a larger fight over data privacy as companies strengthen security and...

The BGF-G7 Summit Initiative gets rolling in Tokyo

The BGF-G7 Summit Initiative gets rolling in Tokyo

(April 4th,2016) On March 28th,  Nguyen Anh Tuan,  The Boston Global Forum’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief, met with Japanese dignitaries at a conference in Tokyo that was part of the formal announcement in Japan of the BGF-G7 Summit Initiative, in which the BGF is making a...