PMs from Abe to Ishiba have tailored state dinners to individual foreign leaders As Japan faces a security environment that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says is the most complex since the end of World War II, the country has been relying on a diplomatic tactic it has...
Boston, MA – May 12, 2025 – The Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS), through its Film Park initiative, today announced the launch of AIWS Film Quality, a groundbreaking standard designed to redefine cinema in the AI Age. As a core component of AIWS Film...
(Photo Credit: REUTERS/Kyodo) (BGF) - This article, published in the International Business Times, elaborates on a recent decision by the Japanese Government to approve a new set of textbooks which claim that the Senkaku Islands (known as the Diaoyu Islands in China)...
(Photo Credit: Flickr/US State Department) (BGF) - In this article, published in The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi argues that third parties, namely the Philippines, Japan, and North Korea, have the potential to destabilize U.S.-Chinese relations. As Tiezzi notes, the U.S....
(Photo Credit: Flickr/US Department of State) (BGF) - In this article, featured in The Diplomat, Jin Kai addresses the challenges facing the U.S. effort to reinvent its relations with China. Kai notes that Max Baucus, the new U.S. Ambassador to China, strives to...
(Photo Credit: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) (BGF) - Earlier this year the Chinese Foreign Minister, Fu Ying, remarked that China's relationship with Japan was "at its worst". Taking that statement as his starting point Ian Bremmer analyzes China and Japan's current...
(Photo Credit: MARK RALSTON/RIE ISHII/AFP/Getty Images)(BGF) - In this article, featured in The Globalist, J.D. Bindenagel looks to Europe in 1914 in an attempt to distill lessons for Chinese-Japanese relations. As Bindenagel notes, the...
(Photo Credit: Flickr/The White House) (BGF) - Often, the current relationship between the U.S. and China is viewed as a Thucydidean Trap - essentially a struggle for power between two powers. In this article Shannon Tiezzi looks back at the U.S.-Chinese diplomacy and...