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Unable to claim Myanmar’s UN seat, the junta wants to empty it

Asked in New York this weekend to read Naypyitaw’s September 12 broadside against him, Myanmar Ambassador to the UN Kyaw Moe Tun did not express outrage. Rather, he reached for a diagnosis. “If you look at this,” he told the diaspora outlet People’s Spring, “it shows how much

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Japan’s submarine debate signals break from nuclear taboos

Japan is edging closer to a once-unthinkable choice: whether nuclear propulsion should underpin its next generation of undersea deterrence. This month, the Japan Times reported that Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi confirmed that Japan is keeping the option of

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Hormuz crisis forcing Japan to domesticate its energy security

Japan’s Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu phoned his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, on September 8, 2026, to express concern over the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It was reportedly the ninth such phone call between the pair since March. Tokyo’s urgency over

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China must be properly scared for an AI slowdown to work

This was the week that AI safety hit the big time. A 27-year-old AI researcher named Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic, declaring that OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to create technology that could destroy the human race: Other researchers echoed Coxon’s concern, stating

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Asia’s lonely economy of one

For most of modern history, the household was a bundle. Under one roof, families pooled rent and meals, raised children, cared for parents, kept each other company and insured one another against bad luck. Nobody itemized it, and national accounts barely noticed. Across East

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