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Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s charismatic, energetic and empathetic leader, shocked her nation and the world last week by announcing that she would step down from her position as prime minister.The announcement was perfectly in line with her reputation: honest and forthright. It was another re...
When we think about Big Tech, five companies come immediately to mind: Alphabet (more commonly known as Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook in its pre-virtual reality days) and Microsoft.Investors sometimes talk about FAANG, an ugly acronym that is almost identical to that group but substitutes N...
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of artificial intelligence. Since it is an enabling technology akin to Thomas Edison’s description of electricity: “a field of fields … it holds the secrets which will reorganize the life of the world.”While the commission also...
In over two decades of work in think tanks and foreign policy research, the most important, rewarding and frustrating project that I have been involved in has been the Pacific Forum’s next-generation initiative, the Young Leaders (YL) program.By finding and bringing up-and-coming young profess...
Enlightened self-interest — ensuring that the developing world is getting COVID-19 vaccines — isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.That shouldn’t be a surprise since self-interest, or getting vaccinated, doesn’t seem to be much of a motivator either. Yet discovery...
During the campaign for president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Fumio Kishida pledged to “secure Japan’s ‘strategic autonomy’ and ‘strategic indispensability.’” As Kuni Miyake noted in these pages last week, those phrases come from a report by the S...
Sean Connery — calling him “Sir Sean” was reportedly a sure way to get him to leave the room — died last weekend at the age of 90. Connery was a film legend, who worked in over 60 movies — many in the leading role — whose unique combination of smoldering intensity...
For all the unknowns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is certain: Containing and rolling back the disease is only possible with reliable information about the prevalence of the infection and its spread. The greatest difficulty now is identifying individuals carrying the virus and all the...
The COVID-19 outbreak has just exposed, with remarkable clarity, the bankruptcy of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda. His administration’s efforts to block or reroute shipments of medical equipment from non-U.S. customers demonstrate a selfishness and short...
It is impossible to overstate the importance of innovation to a society’s health and prosperity. New technologies and new applications of existing technologies will disrupt every dimension of human activity and endeavor. Companies that master the frontiers of emerging technologies will dominat...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has never hidden his animus toward the United States. His tenure in Malacanang Palace has been marked by increasing belligerence toward his country’s ally and partner. For the most part, his bark was worse than his bite. That changed this week, with the ann...
It has been a distressing week for the United States, as the dysfunction of its politics has been on display for all the world to see. A cascade of events has spotlighted the anger, partisanship and effective breakdown of the political process throughout the country. While the sad spectacle is a cas...
Overlooked amid the fear triggered by the coronavirus outbreak and the noise generated by the impeachment proceedings in the United States, was the announcement Tuesday in Washington of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.A deal touted by Trump, Israeli ...
It is difficult to appreciate Southeast Asia’s importance for Asia and the world as a whole.A region once dismissed as a backwater of countries struggling to escape the legacy of colonialism, better known for its distractions than its dynamism, is now seen through a very different lens. It is ...
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