Trump’s Path to the Nobel Prize
Beijing ordered dramatic cuts in fuel, food and maintenance supplies to North Korea earlier this year
Trade Wars: The Prequel
The best we can hope for might be the economic equivalent of the Cold War doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction”
Inflation on Mars: the Global Implications of Corbynomics
The assumption that low inflation and interest rates are here to stay would be discredited – not just in the UK, but globally
Not Dead Yet: TPP.2 Could Be Bigger and Better
Autocrats everywhere will have been inspired by Xi Jinping’s recent move to tear up the rulebook and set up a dictatorship.
Arigato, Trump-san: Japan’s Wake-up Call
The end of American exceptionalism means the end of Japanese exceptionalism too. Constitutional reform is just the first step…
Review: Asia’s Reckoning
“If the Japanese had committed such an act, it would be remembered as the prime atrocity of the war, dwarfing even the Nanjing massacre”
Abe’s Next Move: Stoking a Mini-Boom
A glance at the Japanese banking system – and indeed at any bank branch, with its ranks of paper-shufflers – shows how much room there is for improvement.
Electoral Affinities: How Abe Could Win by Losing
Abe has got himself into a pickle by agreeing to a deeply unpopular hike in the consumption tax
The Asian Missile Crisis: the Message from Machiavelli
Even by the standards of the regime’s bellicose rhetoric, threats of outright genocide are extreme…
Can Abe Get His Mojo Back?
“Opposition” does not refer to minority parties in parliament, who remain irrelevant, but hardliners in the bureaucracy and their supporters