GlobalTalk 21

Let’s see… Cheer up friends of America in the Middle East: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt, check; King Abdullah, Jordan, check; ...

There, I’ve said it. There has been a lot of public doodling by the media and analysts around the progress, impasses and, in the fevere...

If Japanese media reports are to be believed, China is officially disappointed that Prime Minister Abe did not assume responsibility and So...

Good friend Paul Sracic has been invited to attend Prime Minister Abe’s speech before a joint session of Congress, so I decided to give his...

Actually, they are two of my comments on the draft of a weekly newsletter. They went largely unheeded, alas, but good friend Tag Murphy sen...

The following is the memo that I typed out on Wednesday for a Thursday talk-and-Q&A lunch for a group of people from the embassies in T...

“But the fact that Americans are responsive to a wide array of considerations [regarding a final deal with Iran on its nuclear program] sug...

Today (Feb. 17), the Mainichi website uploaded a remarkable report from its Cairo correspondent , citing a Syrian antigovernment activist ...

It can happen. It’s really up to Russia. The separatist rebels surely want more, and they are more likely than not to take Debaltseve. But ...

I judge a publication by what they write about things that I know something about or have a feel for. If they get it right, I give it the b...

… Or perhaps the Japanese Consulate-General in New York delivered a MOFA demarche, in order to convince McGraw Hill to remove two paragraph...

Here it is , “the first episode,” I’ve been told. I’ll have to trust that the producer did not edit it completely out of context, since...

Mainichi’s weekly magazine, once a staple of the waiting lobbies of banks, medical clinics, dentist’s offices and other reputable establis...

Nikkei headlined its February 7 morning edition with “Nōkyō-kaikaku Ōosuji Kaiketsu e (Agricultural Cooperative Reform Largely on the Way...