AI Action Summit Conference Paris, February 10-11, 2025 Session: Government 24/7: How AI Might Best Transform Governance Ladies and gentlemen, Distinguished leaders, innovators, and policymakers, It is a great honor to stand before you today at the AI Action Summit to...
President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru held their first official meeting Feb 7, 2025 in Washington, D.C., where they affirmed their determination to pursue a new golden age for U.S.-Japan relations that upholds a free and open Indo-Pacific and...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will visit him next week at the White House and he looks forward to the conversation. “They’re coming in to speak to me and I’m looking forward to it,” Trump told reporters in the...
The strategic competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged prominently during Donald Trump’s first administration. Policies such as tariffs and trade restrictions, initially implemented under Trump, were subsequently...
Mark Kennedy An issue getting scant attention should be among the most pressing concerns for the US. Preserving our innovation and technological edge and leadership is imperative to our economic success and to our national security. Yet that leadership faces...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on a four-day visit to Malaysia and Indonesia ending Jan 12, sought to deepen military, economic and energy security ties as China’s influence in South-east Asia loomed large. The significance that he chose these countries as...
On November 25, 2024, at Harvard University Loeb House, the Honorable Mark Kennedy, Director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, Member of the BGF Board of Thinkers, and an enthusiastic leader of the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and...
Yasuhide Nakayama, former Japanese State Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense, Chief of the Shinzo Abe Initiative in East Asia, and Representative of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) in Japan and Taiwan, is the Coordinator of the Enlightenment in Action Alliance (EAA)...