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WASHINGTON -- If former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House, he could call on Japan to increase defense spending beyond the 2% of GDP Tokyo has already promised, said former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who served under Trump.
The recent congressional hearing featuring former US generals Mark Milley and Kenneth McKenzie, pivotal figures during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, has shed light on the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“I predict a lot of continuity, and the same things that motivated him when he was elected the first time, I think, continue to motivate him,” Alexander Gray, who was deputy assistant to the former president, said.
Don’t tell Donald Trump, but his pledge to impose 60% tariffs on Chinese goods may help accelerate Xi Jinping’s efforts to move Asia’s biggest economy upmarket in ways Washington never saw coming.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law lowering the draft age from 27 to 25 and eliminated some medical exemptions in an effort to replenish Ukraine’s exhausted army. He also created an electronic database of men, starting at age 17, to crack down on draft dodgers.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has run into political trouble ahead of European parliamentary elections in June, with his ruling party shaken by two political scandals within six weeks.
WASHINGTON -- Retired U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan sees an end to former President Donald Trump's current grip on the Republican Party, telling Nikkei that it is "not durable, in my book."
Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, and author of "The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats -- and Our Response -- Will Change the World."