Psychological aspects of Japan’s wartime death cult have been almost entirely ignored by the revisionist historians
By Francis Pike
The US is working to limit China’s access to semiconductors — but is that a good idea?
By Francis Pike
The Kazakh legislature is largely a fig leaf for what is in essence a dictatorship. Corruption is endemic
By Francis Pike
Indo-Pacific security should be left to the navies of the US, India and Japan
By Francis Pike
The United States, like Athens in the 5th century BC, has been guilty of hubristic overreach and geopolitical distraction
By Francis Pike
Last week’s celebration of the Chinese Communist party was a sham
By Francis Pike
Both China and Saudi Arabia cleave to the belief that internal affairs are nobody else’s business
By Francis Pike
The Royal Navy is sending a battle fleet to Asia for the first time since the Korean War in 1950
By Francis Pike
Does the disapproval of the West matter to the Burmese army? Hardly
By Francis Pike
The president of the Philippines makes Donald Trump look like Betty Crocker
By Francis Pike
