このほど、本当に米中関連のトピックスは増えておりまして、尖閣諸島問題など具体的な領土問題を抱える我が国を差し置いて米中間の鍔迫り合いが本格化しております。 近日中にforeign affairsなどでも出ると思いますし、米系シンクタンクからも米中対立の予想というよりは、米中間でどこが戦場とされる可能性が高いかと言う具体的なシミュレーションが次々と行われる状況となっておりますけれども、一番心配されるシナリオは「偶然発生する日中紛争」であります。確率が高い、というよりは、戦場となった場合の世界経済に与える影響が大きい、という意味ですが。 これは、ロシアの安全保障専門家からも類似の話が出始め、東アジアのリスクにおいては上位に挙げられる事態となって、今までどおりの外交的努力だけでは道筋がつけられない重大な事態に発展した場合、落としどころが見当たらない可能性があります。最近になって、中国中南海(外交
My column last week arguing that American intervention would probably not have helped Syria has generated a lot of discussion, both positive and negative. Some of the discussion has been productive and useful, even if some has been of the predictably low caliber which anyone who has has been immersed in the Syria debate over the last two years would regrettably expect. Robin Yassin-Kassab publishe
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Japan's new government is barely a month old, and already one of its most senior members has insulted tens of millions of voters by suggesting that the elderly are an unnecessary drain on the country's finances. Taro Aso, the finance minister, said on Monday that the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to relieve pressure on the state to pay for their medical care. "Heaven forbid if yo
Dolours Price, the IRA Old Bailey bomber who later became a bitter critic of Sinn Féin's peace strategy, has been found dead at her home in north Dublin. The Garda Síochána are investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of the former Irish republican icon in her apartment in Malahide, although she had been in general ill health. Republican sources confirmed to the Guardian that t
Foreign Office minister David Lidington MP: ''Don't delay... leave'' Britons should leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately in response to a "specific, imminent threat" to Westerners, the Foreign Office says. The British Embassy in Tripoli has been in contact with a "small number" of British nationals whose details it had.
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