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TAG Partner Christopher Johnstone Speaks to the Financial Times on Japan’s Cancellation of a U.S. Meeting Over Defense Spending

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Christopher Johnstone, a former senior US government Japan expert, said Tokyo viewed 2+2 meetings as a “very high priority” because they provided “politically valuable opportunities to showcase the strength of the US-Japan alliance”. He said postponing the meeting until after the Japanese election signalled “significant unease in Tokyo about the state of the bilateral relationship […]

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The Asia Group to Co-Host “The U.S.-Japan Partnership in the New Era” with Nikkei Forum on June 23

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In January 2025, the second Trump administration was inaugurated. It didn’t take long for the world to learn what the president really meant by “Golden Age” and “America First” when he announced a slew of new diplomatic and trade initiatives. Trump 2.0, unafraid to embrace unpredictability, has had a sense of the beginning of a

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TAG Partner Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper Profiled in Nikkei Asia as a Next-Gen Leader Who Could Shape the U.S.-Japan Alliance

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Mira Rapp-Hooper, former National Security Council senior director for East Asia and Oceania in the Biden administration, is now a partner at The Asia Group, where she focuses on geopolitical risk. Post-government, she has taken on a personal project: learning Japanese. “It will take me a long time to get fluent, but it’s great fun,”

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TAG Partner and India Practice Chair Ashok Malik Speaks at the Keidanren South Asia Regional Committee Event on Furthering India-Japan Economic Cooperation

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TAG India Chair Ashok Malik spoke at the Keidanren South Asia Regional Committee event on furthering India-Japan economic cooperation. He discussed the state of and prospects for economic growth in India and provided an outlook for India-Japan economic relations.

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Updated U.S. Export Controls on Advanced Chips Seek to Close Loopholes and Push Allied Alignment

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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced on December 2 updates to export controls that limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment in order to slow China’s military modernization and use of advanced technologies that enable human rights abuses. These rules are the Biden administration’s third major update in three years and are expected to serve as the final update before a change of administration.

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TAG Associate Rintaro Nishimura Speaks About the Upcoming General Election in Japan

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Just one party has almost continuously ruled Japan for the past 70 years, the Liberal Democratic Party. But with a new Prime Minister appointed, and more than 80 elected members of the party engulfed in a slush fund scandal … their popularity is plummeting. So much so pollsters say the party is in the ‘danger

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TAG Associate Rintaro Nishimura Writes an Op-Ed Discussing Why Japan Would Benefit from Crafting an Economic Security Strategy

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Economic security has become an established concept in the present era as the return of great power competition muddles the line between security and economic issues. Governments are increasingly engaged in areas that had once seemed more the domain of private enterprise, particularly in acquisition and control over critical and emerging technologies.

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TAG Associate Rintaro Nishimura Appears at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan to Discuss the Upcoming General Election and the Future of the Ruling Liberal Democratic Party

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TAG Associate Rintaro Nishumura appeared at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan to discuss the upcoming general election and the future of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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