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Geoeconomic Agenda is a new Pacific-centric, globally-minded podcast that investigates the connections between economics, geopolit

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

In 2010, a charming dog from Japan circulated on social media, its quizzical expression sparking a global meme. Her image became k

Senior Research Fellow

Yoshiyuki Sagara

In a bombshell revelation, India’s top defense official has suggested that China and Turkey have provided active military support,

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

[Author: Wakana Asano, API Takano Fellow] From the World War II race for an atomic bomb, to the Cold War race for nuclear and s

[Author: Sadamasa Oue , consulting senior fellow of the Asia Pacific Initiative / former lieutenant general in Japan’s Air Self-De

IOG Economic Intelligence Report (Vol. 4 No. 14)

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

U.S. President Donald Trump is fanning the flames of yet another trade war by calling Japan “spoiled” and threatening to hike tari

Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Nadeau

When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled the open-source large language model DeepSeek-R1 in January, many referred to it as the

Group Head, Emerging Technologies

Makoto Shiono

China’s unparalleled shipbuilding capacity has the U.S., Japan and its allies — both military and economic — rightly concerned abo

Senior Research Fellow

Kenichi Doi

Author: Maiko Ichihara, Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University Populism is threatening democracy around the