Outside the Beltway

Trade wars are good and easy to win.

South Korea demonstrates itself to be a more mature democracy than the United States.

He is yet again underscoring what types of world leaders he likes.

More breaking news.

Some context.

Breaking News

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

Sigh.

A move away from a centuries old Asian practice.

Anger over COVID lockdowns has activated myriad frustrations.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

They’re stealing our secrets and working to undermine our elections.

The mirage of semi-order faded quickly.

Or, you know, not.

The numbers are staggering and getting worse.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her top officials are under house arrest.

A little comparative politics.

Several trends are pointing in a new direction.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

At least in official government documents, Japan will return to the tradition Asian style of placing the surname before an individuals given name.

Indonesia is beginning an ambitious program to move its capital city. Because the current capital of Jakarta is sinking.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

The government in Hong Kong keeps conceding ground to the protests that have taken hold in the city, but the protesters have more fundamental objections.

The ongoing protests in Hong Kong over controversial extradition legislation have taken a violent turn.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese Emperor to abdicate the throne in 200 years today.

Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka make it clear that the claim that ISIS has been defeated are nowhere close to being true.

Further evidence that Sri Lankan authorities failed to act on warnings of rising Jihadism in their country.

Japan will be getting a new Emperor on May 1st. That means a new calendar and a whole lot of headaches.

ISIS is claiming responsibility for Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka, a strong sign that the claims by the Trump Administration that it had largely defeated the group were not true.

Evidence is emerging that the Sri Lankan government had advance warning regarding potential terror attacks but failed to act on the information.

A very strange campaign trail gambit from India’s prime minister.

And a link to a worthwhile read.

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

Not one war, but five.

As expected, the North’s nuclear development continues.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

Lost in all the news about Serena Williams and her arguments with an umpire during last night’s match is the fact that Naomi Osaka represents the face of what appears to be a Japan that is changing for the better.