Global American Discourse

Former US Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty had an interview with Jiji Press on February 29 to soothe anxiety among Japanese people that the US-Japanese alliance would be destabilized if T...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-question-about-former-us-ambassador.html

NOTORIOUS RIGHTWING POPULISTS: TRUMP, NETANYAHU, AND BOLSONARO Right-wingers frequently boasts their passion for patriotism and devotion to national defense over their political opponents at ...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-corrosive-effect-of-rightwing.html

Britain is one of the key partners of the multilateral coalition to enforce FOIP operations to defend the rule of law in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly in view of maritime challenges...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-question-of-britains-tilt-to-indo.html

The global community has been astonished at unexpected influence of some pro-Russian and autocratic nations in Africa at UN General Assembly vote on the Ukrainian crisis. However, the Africa...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2023/07/democracy-in-africa-and-western.html

China is a vocal critic of current international rules and norms, because they regard the rule-based world order today as being based on Western values. Accordingly, Chinese policymakers cla...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2023/05/china-is-vocal-critic-of-current.html

US President Joseph Biden made a long-awaited visit to Kyiv on February 20 in order to show that the United States would be firmly committed to help Ukraine from Russian invasion. In his sub...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2023/04/americas-ukraine-policy-after-president.html

There is a nation-wide debate about the invitation to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to visit Ukraine from President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, it is unlikely that Kishida replacement will...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2023/02/how-should-japan-show-its-political.html

I would like to explain the JEF (Joint Expeditionary Force) that I mentioned in the 2nd paragraph from the bottom in the post of this blog on November 7 , and to tell how it is related to va...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2023/01/international-affairs-surrounding-jef.html

TRUMPUTIN: THE AXIS OF RACISTS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WESTERN FAR RIGHT Despite unprecedented confrontation with the West since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia keeps close relations with Afr...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-ancs-pro-russian-diplomacy-is-sheer.html

JAUKUS? A PACIFIC ALLIANCE OF JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, THE UK, AND THE USA. In the previous post, “Can Britain Draw India into the West?” , I talked about Britain's joint project of developing n...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2022/11/japans-embedded-alliance-with-anglo.html

The war in Ukraine has starkly divided the world into Western democracies and Russo-Chinese autocracies. However, some democratic nations that were invited to the Democracy Summit by US Pres...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2022/07/can-britain-draw-india-into-west.html

Renowned French historian Emmanuel Todd had an interview with NHK of Japan in a TV program “News Watch 9” on May 6 , about the current war in Ukraine and its impact on Russia. Among some...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-case-against-emmanuel-todds-view-on.html

Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, as if filling the power vacuum of international politics, after US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The war broke out as a consequence of ...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2022/03/russias-war-in-ukraine-and-manipulation.html

Ever since the Cold War era, defense spending has been a critical issue of burden sharing between the United States and its allies. Quite frequently, allies has been demanded to increase the...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2021/12/should-we-decide-national-defense.html

The world was pleased when Joseph Biden edged out Donald Trump in the US presidential election last November. The cohesion of Western alliance was reconfirmed at G7 Carbis Bay, and NATO summ...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2021/10/afghan-withdrawal-and-western-self.html

This June was a monumental season of big diplomatic events, from the G7 Carbis Bay to the US-Russian summit. However, it appeared that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga behaved clumsily and unco...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2021/07/japanese-prime-minister-on-global-stage.html

In America and Europe, Asian hate has risen sharply since the corona outbreak from Wuhan of China in December in the year before the last year, and the Biden administration signed the COVID ...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2021/07/asian-hate-and-awareness-of.html

In the previous post, I quoted a column by Max Boot, that presents insightful views about Biden’s red line against Iranian attacks on US interests in the Middle East (“Opinion: Biden act...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-is-bidens-foreign-policy-red-line.html

The global community is keenly watching how much President Joseph Biden is going to shift his country away from America First of Donald Trump. This February, he delivered his first foreign polic...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2021/03/bidens-sense-of-balance-in-his-diplomacy.html

The presidential election this November resulted in the loss of Donald Trump, who advocated America First. Though foreign policy was not a top issue for voters in general, his illiberal, zer...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-should-america-restore-trust-from.html

Every time when the presidential election in the United States, Japanese people from experts to the general public, argue which candidate is better for Japan. Furthermore, some of them insis...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2020/11/us-presidential-election-and-japanese.html

Unlike Europeans, Japanese, particularly right wingers, praise Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s causes for freedom of the Uyghur and Hong Kong. Come to think of it, it seems quite odd, bec...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2020/09/dont-trust-pompeos-cause-of-freedom-and.html

President Donald Trump declared abruptly that he would pull out 9,500 soldiers from Germany this June, which dismayed national security officials of both countries. The focal point is that T...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-catastrophe-of-us-troop-withdrawal.html

Russian Duma and the Constitutional Court approved the constitutional amendment by President Vladimir Putin last March (“Russian Lawmakers Adopt Putin’s Sweeping Constitutional Amendment...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2020/04/russias-constitutional-amendments-and.html

It is anticipated that the rapid increase of shale oil and gas production could accelerate American isolationism and disengagement from the Middle East. History tells us that isolationism is...

http://newglobal-america.blogspot.com/2020/03/us-presidential-election-and-middl-east.html