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“Yay I’m back home in Tokyo” just means I have to get to working on things I couldn’t do while on the road

Report coming soon I promise

It has just hit me that only when the prc turns north korea like will I be able to retire from the hideous work that is reading through gov documents, again and again and again and again. p.s. this is not a complain

wondering who from this space would be the one jumping to write a “what’s next” thread if the crashed plane carried a certain leader from the east, northeast

‘Came out of nowhere’: mayor of Philippine town suspected to be Chinese agent
scmp.com/week-asia/poli…

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bought this water at the airport in Tokyo only to realise upon landing in Washington that it’s actually American water, おかえりなさい I guess ?

A new U.S. Indo-Pacific Command commander to seize and shape a new era in the #USJapanAlliance . Expect a continued strengthening of security alliances and collective deterrence across the #IndoPacific under the leadership of U.S. Navy Admiral Paparo. Welcome aboard! U.S. Forces Japan

Timely and always excellent report from AlbertYZhang & colleagues.

BBC: Pro-China candidate wins Solomon Islands PM vote
bbc.com/news/articles/…

once there were only three evils, then…

JUST RELEASED:

Research from AEI's Mackenzie Eaglen estimates that China's true military spending is $710.6 billion.

This calculation is 3x larger than Beijing's self-reported totals and several billion dollars higher than estimates from the US intelligence community.

Two phone calls out of Lima yesterday. One between the Chinese and Peruvian Foreign Ministers, another one between Peruvian Economic Minister and Reuters. Any more delays will be a further blow to the Belt and Road Initiative.

gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao…
reuters.com/world/americas…

Beijing is not exactly making a 'wave of reconciliation' happen in the Middle East but it won't stop trying. Verdict is out today from the weekend talks between Hamas and Fatah in Beijing. Results? Absolutely nothing.
reuters.com/world/china/ch…

Maldives: Pro-China party led by Muizzu wins by landslide
bbc.com/news/world-asi…