“What this document says is, we have to anticipate this (Ukraine) emergency. Don’t wait till it’s upon us,” said Rikki Kersten, honorary professor at the Australian National University.
By Colin ClarkWASHINGTON: Japan is the proverbial linchpin of US strategy in East Asia. But linchpins sometimes break. As the US struggles to afford a “pivot” to the Pacific, its most important ally in the theater is undergoing a slow and painful shift of its own. The new prime minister, Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.