Tag: Triangle

  • Asahi: Stating the Obvious With a Little Attitude

    The English version of the Asahi Shimbun article about the U.S. action against China in the WTO over intellectual property has a pretty obvious headline: “WTO complaints against China put Japan in a bind.” It addresses the fact that the U.S. government asked Japan to join the action (and they haven’t decided yet as far…


  • Fukuyama Takes on Japanese Nationalism, His Translator, and the U.S.–Japan Alliance

    Francis Fukuyama, the U.S.-born political scientist who made his name by declaring another discipline, history, to be so over in End of History and the Last Man, does not work much with Japanese issues, despite what some people assume based on his name. But he learned something about establishment Japanese nationalism when he had The…


  • A Passing Passage: When the U.S. was a model for China

    I’m reading Margaret MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World these days. Here’s a paragraph to consider from page 97. In the early days of the republic, many Chinese looked to the United States as a model—of government, but also of a society. President Woodrow Wilson’s promises of a new world order…


  • Poll: China is First Priority For Japanese, U.S. Second

    A Nikkei Shimbun poll found that the Japanese public ranks China as Japan’s highest diplomatic priority, followed by the United States and South Korea.


  • Murdoch Gets His Way: Hu, Abe, and Bush to Meet at APEC

    Reuters reports that the leaders of the United States, Japan, and China will meet in Hanoi: China, Japan and the United States will “exchange views on bilateral ties and international and regional issues of common concern” on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Hanoi, the official Xinhua news agency reported in a…