Harvard University, Loeb House, November 23, 2022 Excellencies, I am Hamada Yasukazu, Defense Minister of Japan. I am afraid I am not able to attend this conference in person due to a scheduling conflict. I am very delighted to know that Boston Global Forum...
Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of the Boston Global Forum and Harvard professor Thomas Patterson Harvard University Loeb House, November 23, 2022 Of Southeast Asia’s leaders of the past half-century, no leader has demonstrated more foresight and courage than...
Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump says that if he is elected U.S. president, America will not necessarily come to the aid of a NATO ally under attack {most likely by Russia}. He said that such aid might depend on how much that ally has...
Contrary to the long-accepted assertions of officials who served in the Nixon administration, President Nixon's "secret'' diplomacy to establish ties with Mao Zedong's China was well known to Taiwanese officials as the diplomacy, mostly conducted from the U.S. side...
This Bloomberg story looks at how a man trains computers to find future criminals through algorithms. The article says: "Risk scores, generated by algorithms, are an increasingly common factor in sentencing. Computers crunch data—arrests, type of crime committed, and...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union has "thrown a spanner in the works" of its global economic growth forecast. The IMF's 2017 growth forecast for the U.K. has been slashed to 1.3 percent...
Boxed areas contain islands claimed by China. China's state media said the government plans to put offshore nuclear-power platforms to promote development in the South China Sea. Such a development could make it much more difficult to militarily stop the increasingly...
Dictatorships tend to support other dictatorships in order, in part, to discourage democracy. Thus it was no surprise that the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad sides with China's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea -- in opposition to the decision of a...