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The “sender pays” model is poised to create fragmentation of digital rules and standards, compromising the digital ecosystems that have been at the heart of the internet’s innovation and growth. Subscribe for ads-free reading When the presidents of South Korea and the United States met in May, they highlighted their shared belief in the benefits afforded by an open, global, interoperable, reliable
The latest smear campaign succeeded beyond China’s wildest dreams by playing into Western ignorance about Tibetan culture – and self-righteous “cancel culture” on social media. On April 8, 2023, a new global smear campaign against the Dalai Lama was unleashed on social media. This, in itself, wasn’t news. The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, has lived in exile in India since 1959, when he was
An Uyghur instructor stands near a window during a class at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute as a Chinese flag flies outside, as seen during a government organized visit for foreign journalists, in Urumqi in western China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 22, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Over recent months, China’s government has been in overdrive to combat allegations of huma
The conspiracy theory’s rise in Japan has disturbing parallels with Aum Shinrikyo, the cult behind the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. If you thought that QAnon – the baseless conspiracy theory purporting that a global cabal of satanic pedophiles is plotting against former U.S. President Donald Trump – was an exclusively American phenomenon, you’d be wrong. Before Twitter purged 70,000
Subscribe for ads-free reading Advertisements for Huawei are ubiquitous in Europe. In Skopje, the capitol of North Macedonia, a massive electronic sign for Huawei towers above the central square. A similarly large Coca-Cola sign looms over a statue of what any local will tell you is Alexander the Great that dominates the square. Officially the figure is known as “Warrior on a Horse” in order not t
Has Japan found a viable long-term strategy for the pandemic? According to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare statistics, 11,772 Japanese had been infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus as of April 23, with 287 total deaths. These numbers have been rising somewhat more rapidly in recent weeks, but despite Japan recording its first case more than three months ago, in mid-January, the number of
Credit: US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Since the 1980s, countries around the world have bought into the free trade ideology and liberalized trade. Even after the United States, the traditional leader of the global free trade regime, dramatically rejected the benefits of international cooperation by pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Japan stepped up to keep the momentum
If Japan wants to live up to its reputation as one of the world’s most advanced democracies, it needs to modernize its criminal justice system. Judge Yuichi Tada, top center, and spectators sit in a courtroom ahead of a court hearing on a case of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. Credit: Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP The high-profile ar
Controversy over the comfort women is partly rooted in a Manichean worldview dividing people into innocents and oppressors. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / YunHo LEE On December 28, 2015, Japan and South Korea signed a landmark agreement over the former’s wartime sexual exploitation of Korean “comfort women.” Japan formally apologized and contributed 1 billion yen (about $8.3 million) to compensate th
In this May 10, 2016, file photo, parade participants march with a model of the Unha space launch vehicle at the Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. Credit: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a known site for missile research and development in December 2017, likely to provide guidance on an anticipated satellite launch in 2018, The Diplomat has learned. A
Credit: Rodong Sinmun What happens when a North Korean ballistic missile test fails in flight and explodes in a populated area? On April 28, 2017, North Korea launched a single Hwasong-12/KN17 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) from Pukchang Airfield in South Pyongan Province (the Korean People’s Army’s Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 447 in Ryongak-dong, Sunchon City, to be more precise). Th
South Korea’s Moon Jae-in has domestic political reasons for reopening the agreement. Shinzo Abe and then-South Korea President Park Geun-hye in 2015. Credit: Cheong Wa Dae In 2015 a bilateral agreement negotiated by the foreign ministries and leaders of Japan and South Korea resolved to “finally and irreversibly” bring the longstanding comfort women issue to an end. Met with widespread internatio
The Chinese bombers and support aircraft aimed to “test real combat capabilities.” Credit: Japanese Ministry of Defense The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) sent two Xian H-6K long-range bombers, two unidentified fighter jets, one Shaanxi Y-8 electronic countermeasures aircraft, and one Tupolev Tu-154MD electronic intelligence plane through international airspace between the Japanese isl
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Credit: Google Earth screenshot On Wednesday, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) carried out a flight test of a Dong Feng 4 (DF-4; known by the United States as the CSS-3) intercontinental-range ballistic missile, a U.S. government source with knowledge of China’s strategic weapons programs told The Diplomat. The test was carried out from the
Is the North Korean nuclear crisis slowly eroding the so-called nuclear taboo? A small group of people protest against the Trump administration and demand immediate diplomatic talks with North Korea to prevent nuclear war, in New York, U.S. August 9, 2017. Credit: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz This summer’s nuclear showdown between the United States and North Korea, largely manufactured by the bravado and
Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office On July 2, Tokyo went to the polls to decide the make-up of the Metropolitan Assembly. Although the election results themselves have no direct linkage to national politics per se, the winners and losers that emerged from the election are intriguing when considering the potential impact. One of the loser was clearly the ruling Liberal Democr
More Votes, Fewer Rights: Jammu and Kashmir Assembly to Reconvene for 1st Time Since Reorganization Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Chris73 Hereditary politics is a common feature of most democracies, and not necessarily a bad one. As some scholars argue, it can have positive spillovers into parliamentary workflow, raise efficiency, and create institutional cohesiveness among members of legislatures. C
Credit: Flickr/ YunHo LEE In December 2015, Japan and South Korea signed a landmark agreement over Japan’s wartime sexual exploitation of Korean women (“comfort women”). Japan apologized and contributed 1 billion yen (approximately $8.3 million) to compensate the survivors or their families. In return, Korea would consider the issue settled and dialogue with civic groups to remove a comfort woman
Decades of persecution have left the Rohingya on the brink of genocide. Rohingya Muslim refugees shout slogans during a protest against what organizers say is the crackdown on ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar, in New Delhi, India (December 19, 2016). Credit: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Amidst the latest wave of brutal violence unleashed by security forces in Rakhine state, Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya st
Subscribe for ads-free reading In late August, in a speech delineating white nationalist support for Donald Trump, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton unveiled a new title for Russian President Vladimir Putin: “The Grand Godfather of Extreme Nationalism.” With the sinecure, Clinton sought to directly link the odious policies of her Republican counterpart — namely, mainstreaming a racia
Russia has begun construction of three new subs including its latest ballistic missile nuclear submarine. Subscribe for ads-free reading Three new submarines were officially laid down at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, a port city on Russia’s White Sea a few weeks ago, according to Russian media reports. Laying down formally kicks off a ship’s construction with a ceremony. The three submarin
Subscribe for ads-free reading What is the most worrying relationship in Asia today? Where is there the greatest potential for the most destructive conflict? Would it be from North Korea, with its burgeoning and almost incessant nuclearization program, perhaps, or the ongoing tensions between Pakistan and India? Is a more urgent issue China’s ongoing clashes with the other competing parties in the
Subscribe for ads-free reading On Monday, Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi arrived in Vietnam for a scheduled meeting with a broad-based agenda. Yang, who outranks China’s foreign minister, met with senior Vietnamese leadership, including President Tran Dại Quang and Vietnamse Communist Party General-Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Yang’s visit is an instance of particularly high-level outreach to
Credit: 樱井千一 via Wikimedia Commons Early last Thursday morning, a Chinese Jiangkai I frigate entered waters near the disputed Japanese Senkaku islands, called the Diaoyu by China. The move sparked an immediate response from the Japanese government, which summoned the Chinese ambassador at 2 am to lodge a protest. When the islands were nationalized by Japan in 2012, incursions by Chinese ships and
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