Very fitting: Reagan's speech to the 🇯🇵Diet in 1983.11 affirmed that despite our different cultures, we shared the same values

His belief and his friendship with PM Nakasone elevated the alliance to where it is today. Fitting that Landon Parvin had a role in this new chapter.

Whatever the view of an ally/partner's immigration policy, the president should not be dissing them with pejoratives. And that's how this will be seen.

Can say something good about the US approach without running other countries down.

As a former Shultz Fellow Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI), I endorse this message

Example #723 of President Biden botching political pandering to scoring a diplomatic own-goal.

He: 1) ignores legit concern of illegal migration; 2) does false equivalency for 🇨🇳 and 🇯🇵🇮🇳; 3) ignore 🇯🇵 efforts on immigration.

Absolutely nuts.

japantoday.com/category/polit…

🇯🇵 media didn’t miss POTUS trashing 🇯🇵 alongside 🇨🇳 as “xenophobic.” Of course, the MSM in the US would have gone ballistic had President Trump said this. But look at timelines ⁦Reuters⁩ ⁦The Associated Press⁩ — MSM had to report as 🇯🇵 press already did. japantoday.com/category/polit…?

Great weekend in with fellow scholars and senior advisors as part of the Mansfield-Lice Network to advance greater links and understanding between NE and SE Asia.

Lots of great discussion, hikes, and bike rides. Thanks to the great work of Mansfield Foundation !

For years, Chinese Communists made promises to cooperate with the US to end the illicit fentanyl trade. But they were always Communist lies.

To stop this attack and establish deterrence, we should declare the #CCP a drug trafficking organization: hudson.org/strategic-impo…

In Whitefish, Montana for the Mansfield Foundation conference. But as it’s Shabbat, the town name becomes “Gefilte Fish”

The historic summit between President Biden and Prime Minister Kishida signaled a new era in US-Japan relations.

Deputy Secretary Kurt Campbell Kurt Campbell sits down with Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick M. Cronin to examine the new outlook for this key alliance: hudson.org/events/convers…

Given all the challenges we face in the world, it's important to work with our friends. Hudson Institute is doing its part through our work in all ways!

The Chinese Embassy reportedly lobbying congressional staff against legislation to force ByeDance to sell TikTok is especially interesting since China's embassy currently has no foreign agents registered under FARA... and the diplomatic exemption is limited to official functions.

Still early going, but so far one thing Iran has achieved is to have demonstrated the close and effective military coordination between Israel and its Arab allies, which are helping to down the drones and missiles. I am guessing this was not Tehran's intent.

LeBron could never

Where did all the money go?

Terrorist financing, nuclear proliferation—and lining the pockets of IRGC elites and their families, who have developed a corrupt stranglehold over the husk of Iran’s economy.

In Bloomberg Politics, I observe to Yoshiaki Nohara 野原良明 and Michelle Jamrisko that Kishida's visit to NC is due to polarization in DC, resulting in a 🇯🇵 shift to reach out to 🇺🇸 regions and to emphasize the benefits of 🇯🇵 investment to 🇺🇸 economy and society.

Had a fun conversation today at CSIS with U.S. Institute of Peace’s Vikram J. Singh, ASPI Washington DC’s AdamLeslieASPI_DC & Hudson Institute’s William Chou on harnessing the Quad’s tech potential. Many thanks to the GeoTech Initiative for having us!

Prime Minister Kishida's state visit to Washington highlights the significant advances in security, economic, and technological cooperation between Japan and the US under his government.

Read Kenneth Weinstein & William Chou's analysis of the summit: hudson.org/security-allia…

Prime Minister Kishida's most notable security accomplishments have been written off as legacy policies from the former Prime Minister Abe.

William Chou shines a light on 3 policies that the Kishida government has implemented that will strengthen Japan's security.