Tag: Triangle

  • Rupert Murdoch Sees Trilateral Summit, Hosted by U.S.

    Rupert Murdoch, CEO and chairman of News Corp., told a Tokyo audience that U.S. President George W. Bush should host a trilateral summit with the leaders of China and Japan, Yomiuri Shimbun reports. “China, Japan and the U.S. have much business to get through,” Murdoch said. “There are too many misunderstandings and misread signals among…


  • White House in Support of Abe's Asia Visits

    The White House came out in support of strong ties among East Asian states yesterday, but emphasized Japan–South Korea ties more than better relations between Japan and China. I read the reference to the United States’ “two key allies in East Asia, Japan and the ROK” as a way of emphasizing the continued distance between…


  • A Missed Opportunity in U.S. East Asia Policy

    It is an imaginative exercise to read speculative accounts of Sino-Japanese relations from earlier in the Koizumi years. No one knew just how bad it would get in the public sphere, and I find that most writers at the time imagined the Koizumi administration and China’s new leadership under Hu Jintao beginning in 2002 would…


  • My Op-Ed Today in the Mercury News

    Bay Area friends will find an op-ed column I wrote in the San Jose Mercury News today (Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006). Here is the text as it appeared, reprinted by permission: “U.S. should press Japan to mend fences with China” By Graham Webster When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Graceland with President George W.…