Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin just concluded a two-day summit in Japan focused on the potential to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute and enhance economic cooperation as a means toward that end. The two governments made some...

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On Friday afternoon, President Obama signed an order banning the sale of a U.S. company to a Chinese firm. It is only the third time...

After years of negotiation, India and Japan signed an historic deal that would allow Japan to export nuclear technology, equipment, and material to India. This is the first time Japan has signed a nuclear...

On October 27, the UN General Assembly approved Resolution L.41, which calls for negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban to begin in spring 2017 at the United Nations. Such a ban would legally...

Earlier this week, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held the Sixth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee in Beijing. The leadership, headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, presided over the meeting of almost 350 Central Committee members and other senior party and...

This week a political scandal involving Choi Soon-sil, a friend and personal adviser to President Park Geun-hye, has engulfed South Korean domestic politics. The concerns center around Choi, a private citizen, having been given access by Park to speeches, official documents,...

Yesterday, Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, or Rama IX, died after reigning for 70 years. He was 88 years old and had been in failing health for the past five years, rarely leaving the hospital. King Bhumibol ascended to the throne in 1946 and served as a key source of...

Today, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2310, which reaffirms the importance of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), a treaty that was signed 20 years ago but has never entered into force. The resolution, first raised and drafted by the United States,...

On September 9, North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test—its second this year and the fifth since 2006. This latest nuclear test follows months of missile launches, even as the United Nations and individual states have imposed increasingly tough sanctions on...

China hosted the 11th G20 leadership summit on September 4–5, 2016, in the city of Hangzhou, about 110 miles southwest of Shanghai. The meeting brought together the regular G20 members, plus the heads of seven international organizations and several developing countries...

A series of three chemical weapons attacks in Syria within a two-week span in August 2016 occurred amidst increased scrutiny and criticism from the international...