Will Japan benefit from the New Cold War?
The last Cold War was marked by espionage, subversion, intense propaganda and proxy wars. The new one is unlikely to be different.
The last Cold War was marked by espionage, subversion, intense propaganda and proxy wars. The new one is unlikely to be different.
Such things happen in the West too of course, but never to members of the elite.
Over the years Japan has learned much that was useful from Europe. Now it has an opportunity to learn from Europe’s mistakes.
Referendums can be tricky operations, as former British Prime Minister David Cameron found out
You only get populism when liberalism has failed. That primarily means economic failure, but there are cultural and social fissures that matter too.
Prime Ministers came and went with such frequency that they were likened to karaoke singers taking turns at the microphone.
Japanese scandals are never about what they appear to be about. To quote a proverb, “the hidden side has a hidden side of its own.”
Beijing ordered dramatic cuts in fuel, food and maintenance supplies to North Korea earlier this year
The best we can hope for might be the economic equivalent of the Cold War doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction”
The assumption that low inflation and interest rates are here to stay would be discredited – not just in the UK, but globally