World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates

Obama mulls expanded weapons sales to Vietnam to help thwart China

(May 23rd, 2016) U.S. President Obama is considering broadly expanding weapons sales to Vietnam to strengthen ties with Hanoi and boost regional defenses against China's growing clout – and especially its seizure and militarization of some islands and reefs in the...

Russia sees more cooperation with Japan

(May 23rd, 2016) The Russian news service Sputnik News, which acts as a conduit for government pronouncements, says  that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been laying the groundwork for further economic and other...

G7 education ministers set agenda

(May 23rd, 2016) In preparation for the G7 Summit May 26-27, G7 education ministers meeting in Japan have agreed to collaborate to improve education, including addressing the education deficits of refugee children and widening income inequality (with some of the...

Russian news service claims ‘breakthrough’ in Japanese relations

(May 16th, 2016) The Russian government-linked news service Sputnik News reported that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his confidence in what the service called a ‘’breakthrough’’ in relations with Vladimir Putin’s government. Mr. Abe said that talks...

Newspaper accuses Cameron of caving on E.U. immigration controls

(May 16th, 2016) The (London) Daily Mail calls the disclosure that British Prime Minister David Cameron  bowed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s demand to drop his European Union membership renegotiation “red line” demanding stronger immigration controls for the...

UNESCO chief says world needs more ‘soft power’

(May 15th, 2016) UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova told an event organized at the United Nations University in Tokyo that the '’world needs more soft power to diffuse tensions, prevent conflict and build coalitions around a positive agenda.’’ She discuss ed...