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The Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy shifts focus to the Western Hemisphere and Asia while largely maintaining the underlying limits of America's security policy established under the Biden administration.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 12, 2025
How to read Trump’s National Security Strategy
What I see as the essence of NSS 2025 is that this document appears to be a product of compromise intended to bridge the differences that surfaced within the Trump administration.
U.S. President Donald Trump points his finger as he speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One during travel to Pennsylvania from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2025
Trump slams ‘decaying’ and ‘weak’ Europe as U.S. ties to continent wither
The U.S. president’s comments on immigration and Ukraine deepened a rift between Washington and some of its oldest allies.
Britain’s stagnant economy and the damage from Brexit make a pragmatic new trade deal with the EU the most realistic path to revive growth without reopening old political wounds.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2025
The U.K. needs a new deal, without saying Brexit
It isn’t necessary to rebuild the whole EU institutional architecture to retrieve the benefits that have been lost.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30. Trump’s new National Security Strategy changes the country’s focus, prioritizing business deals and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarian regimes like China.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2025
Trump’s unapologetically ‘America First’ National Security Strategy
The U.S. stands taller, yet smaller, in the new National Security Strategy.
The European Commission on Friday imposed a €120 million penalty on Elon Musk's X for breaching European Union online content rules.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 6, 2025
Europe continues Big Tech crackdown with X fine in defiance of Trump
Europe is forging ahead with its crackdown on Big Tech, levying fines on Alphabet's Google and Elon Musk's X and opening new investigations, asserting its sovereign right to enforce its laws in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the signing ceremony of a peace deal with the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 5, 2025
New Trump strategy vows shift from global role to regional
The national security paper, meant to flesh out Trump’s norms-shattering “America First” worldview, signals a sharp reorientation from longstanding U.S. calls to refocus on Asia.
The European Union's executive body says to cover Ukraine's military and basic services against Russia's war, it favors a "reparations loan" using Russian state assets immobilized in the EU.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 4, 2025
EU proposes using frozen Russian assets or borrowing to give Ukraine €90 billion
Russia has warned the EU and Belgium against using its assets, which it says would be an act of theft.
Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, in 2010.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 3, 2025
EU pushes to end its dependence on China for rare earths
China, the world’s top producer of rare earths, in October announced new controls on the export of the elements.
Whether it's within NATO or through bespoke coalitions, Europe must coordinate its military and diplomatic efforts to deter aggression, protect allies, and ensure it can project power effectively beyond the EU’s highly regulated and limiting institutions.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2025
The EU is the wrong power player for Ukraine
Europe lacks the institutions, resources and political cohesion to defend against Russia and China, leaving NATO, bespoke coalitions and individual nations to fill the gap.
Residential apartment blocks in Helsinki in May 2023. Finland's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate hit 9.6% in September.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 2, 2025
Soaring unemployment challenges Finnish welfare model
Figures from the European statistics agency Eurostat showed Finland’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate hit 9.6% in September.
A firefighter stands at the site of a private home that went up in flames after it was hit by a Russian drone during a night of attacks on Kyiv on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 2, 2025
Trump’s push to end Ukraine war raises fears of ‘ugly deal’ for Europe
Although Ukrainians and other Europeans pushed back against parts of a U.S. plan to end the fighting that was seen as pro-Russian, any deal could carry risks for the continent.
A man walks past voting posters in favor of an initiative for compulsory civic duty for all is seen in a street in Geneva, on Nov. 25.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Swiss reject universal compulsory civic duty and climate tax for superrich
Final results from across the country showed voters spurning the proposals that had generated significant discussion in the wealthy Alpine nation.
A sample of monazite, a mineral used in the rare earth industry to extract elements such as cerium, lanthanum and neodymium, at the Geological Museum of China in Beijing. The European Union is set to announce a plan to reduce its reliance on raw materials from China.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2025
‘Slow’ EU to unveil plan for cutting reliance on raw materials from China
The EU will face challenges creating its own critical raw materials and rare earths industry, largely from scratch, from mines to extraction, processing and stockpiling.
A committee of signatories to the Washington convention holds a meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2025
International conference rejects blanket restriction on eel trade
The proposal was submitted by the European Union, which claimed that eel populations are declining mainly due to catches of eels for export.
A model of a Future Combat Air System (SCAF), a European aircraft developed by France, Germany and Spain is displayed during the 54th International Paris Airshow at Le Bourget Airport near Paris on June 19, 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 26, 2025
France and Germany step up pressure on arms firms to resolve fighter impasse
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) has been mired in disputes between Airbus and France’s Dassault Aviation.
Battle damage in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region on Nov. 15.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2025
Turn Russia’s frozen assets into incentives for peace
The West is not a spectator to this. It is the custodian of the one pressure point Putin did not foresee: His own frozen wealth.
A solar power station near Lobito, Angola, in 2024
BUSINESS
Nov 24, 2025
EU and Africa leaders to talk trade and minerals, as Ukraine looms large
Leaders are gathering in Angola on Monday for a summit aimed at deepening economic and security ties that will serve as a backdrop to emergency talks on Ukraine.
Former press officer Roberto Fico during the final rally for the Campania regional elections in Naples. Fico is the front-running candidate of Italy's center-left alliance looking to unseat Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 24, 2025
An anti-Meloni coalition is coming together in Italy
The alliance of parties with disparate political beliefs looks to rally behind single, strategically chosen candidates and consolidate the anti-Meloni vote.
The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier strike group, including the flagship USS Gerald R. Ford, USS Winston S. Churchill, USS Mahan and USS Bainbridge, sail toward the Caribbean under F/A-18 Super Hornets and a B-52 bomber in the Atlantic Ocean on Nov. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2025
Troubled by U.S. Venezuela operation, Europeans limit intel sharing
French, Dutch and British official worry that their intel could be used for strikes that would be considered illegal in their countries.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meets with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump in Geyongju, South Korea, on Oct. 29. The two leaders finalized a trade deal that lowered tariffs on South Korean car imports and investment in the United States.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 23, 2025
The long road to a South Korea-U.S. trade deal
In regard to Japan, another key ally, Lee has signaled a flexible stance and continued bilateral cooperation.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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