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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

In her first weeks as prime minister, Sanae Takaichi unified the LDP, formed a new conservative coalition, advanced Japan’s defense and trade agendas and secured strong public support. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/30/japan/four-questions-for-takaichi-after-one-week/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #fumiokishida #shigeruishiba #yoshimitsumotegi #shinjirokoizumi #yoshimasahayashi #takayukikobayashi #satsukikatayama #hirofumiyoshimura #fumitakefujita #donaldtrump #ldp #komeito #jip #dpp #sanseito

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and U.S. President Donald Trump have the facts on their side. Now they need to learn how to tell their story before others tell it for them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/30/world/china-is-controlling-the-global-narrative/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews

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China is winning the global ‘narrative war’

The future of the international order may depend less on missiles and trade deals than on who controls the story of what that order means and whom it serves.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

Japan's prime minister deserves praise for charming Trump, but their relationship is just getting started. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/30/japan/takaichi-praised-for-handling-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #politics #primeminister #sanaetakaichi #donaldtrump

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Takaichi earns kudos for following Trump ‘manual’

The Takaichi administration’s diplomacy toward Washington will face many trials in the months and years to come.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Sanae Takaichi’s first meeting with Donald Trump mirrored Shinzo Abe’s charm-based diplomacy, earning her praise, strong poll numbers, and a positive start for her new government. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/29/trump-flattery-will-get-takaichi-everywhere/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #us #usjapanrelations #shinzoabe #sanaetakaichi #donaldtrump

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Meta's pursuit of AI advancement without a strong safety culture has led to serious risks — especially for children — and unless the company fundamentally reforms its priorities, more harm is inevitable. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/29/world/metas-chatbot-scandal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #meta #facebook #chatgpt #chatbots #ai #artificialintelligence

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

As Hong Kong courts prosecute pro-democracy activists and tighten Beijing’s control, Western bankers attending a financial summit there are signaling they value profits over principles. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/world/wall-street-and-hong-kongs-freedom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #hongkong #china #communistparty #democracy #hongkongprotests

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

American strategy has shifted from courting India as a counterweight to China to demanding economic alignment on U.S. terms. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/29/world/indias-options-in-a-trumpian-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #india #us #indiausrelations #narendramodi #donaldtrump #china #tariffs

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India’s geoeconomic options in a Trumpian world

India resists Trump-era U.S. pressure through selective concessions, strategic patience and diversified partnerships, safeguarding its sovereignty.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

The recent China spy scandal in the U.K. highlights a chaotic, disorienting political and intelligence environment, resembling something more likely found in spy fiction rather than real-world espionage. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/world/uks-china-spy-scandal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #uk #china #slowhorses #johnlecarre #espionage #m15

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U.K.’s China spying scandal is a ‘Slow Horses’ plot

The China spy scandal currently gripping U.K. politics and media is again redolent of a fictional milieu.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

OpenAI's latest blunder over its GPT-5 model's supposed solution to unsolved math problems highlights the gap between the current state of AI, which excels at pattern matching, and promises of superintelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/openai-latest-breakthrough-falls-flat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #chatgbt #openai #llms #artificialintelligence

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

A staunch conservative who has never joined a faction and avoided scandal, she may be ideally positioned to repair past damage to her party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/japan/re-building-the-ldps-big-tent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ldp #komeito #jip #sanaetakaichi

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Japan, under new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, plans to boost defense and regional security amid waning U.S. influence and rising threats from China, North Korea and Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/japan/japans-opportunity-to-flex-its-military-muscle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #donaldtrump #sdf #defense #china #northkorea #russia

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

A new study shows that national security professionals are often overconfident, frequently wrong in their judgments, prone to false positives, and resistant to self-correction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/world/decision-maker-be-careful-of-loudest-voices/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #defense #nato #donaldtrump

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Feeling confident? Think again — you’re probably wrong.

A study finds that overconfidence by many national security experts “was so extreme that it essentially canceled out the knowledge that these individuals possessed.”
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

The U.S.-China economic confrontation is marked by chaos, lack of strategy and internal divisions within the Trump administration, raising critical questions about the future of global diplomacy and trade. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/27/world/the-us-has-no-china-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #us #china #tariffs #trade #chinausrelations

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Despite all the enthusiasm for AI, the signal from bond markets suggests that investors are unconvinced that the technology will generate sustained or widespread growth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/27/world/what-the-markets-really-think-about-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #google #anthropic #deepseek #markets #globaleconomy

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

It is tempting — but wrong — to view the two nations as a single security threat to Europe and NATO. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/27/world/china-and-russias-threat-to-europe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #russia #us #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #xijinping #defense

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

U.S. and European sanctions on Russian oil may not be enough to pressure Putin into ending the war in Ukraine, as Western resolve and actions remain lacking. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/27/world/only-credible-threats-will-stop-putins-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #us #eu #sanctions #defense

The Japan Times

Sanctions or Tomahawks? Only credible threats will convince Putin.

A lack of resolve and realism in the West has encouraged Putin to believe he need only wait until Ukraine’s backers fail it and he’ll be able to achieve his maximalist goals.
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Hacker News
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

We're in the Wrong Moment

https://ezrichards.github.io/posts/were-in-the-wrong-moment/

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Ethan Richards - We’re in the Wrong Moment

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

SoftBank is relying on costly hybrid bonds to fund its $30 billion OpenAI investment, amid rising debt, cash flow issues and AI competition. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/26/japan/softbanks-openai-ambitions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #softbank #openai #artificialintelligence #bonds #masayoshisons

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SoftBank’s OpenAI ambition is far too grand for banks

On a stand-alone basis, as of the end of June, the company held more than twice as many bonds as bank loans.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

For women in power, the pressure to prove themselves often leaves little room to focus on gender identity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/26/japan/the-glass-cliff-and-takachis-rise-to-power/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #ldp #diet #jip #japaneseeconomy #inflation #defense #fiscalspending

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Takaichi’s rise to power and the ‘glass cliff’

Many feminists in Japan are disappointed that the first female prime minister comes from the conservative right.
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Anarchism News
@anarchismhub@todon.nl  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Agency: **Marius Mason Update**

https://anarchistagency.com/marius-mason-update/

by Panagioti Tsolkas, art by Marius Mason This update on political prisoner Marius Mason is published by Agency in collaboration with Fifth Estate Magazine. Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration and […]

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Marius Mason Update

by Panagioti Tsolkas, art by Marius Mason This update on political prisoner Marius Mason is published by Agency in collaboration with Fifth Estate Magazine. Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied
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