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Modi, Ishiba put tech ties on a new fast track

The day after their meeting at the 15th annual India-Japan Summit in Tokyo on August 29, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode the Shinkansen bullet train to visit Tokyo Electron’s state-of-the-art semiconductor production equipment

Putin pulling a reverse Nixon on Trump

In 1972, US President Richard Nixon’s trip to China didn’t end the Vietnam War, but it helped offset the political fallout there and put a different turn on the ongoing Cold War. It ultimately worked, although it still took time to materialize into meaningful collaboration

China’s SCO summit theater masks deep contradictions

The grand spectacle unfolding in Tianjin this week—with Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi flanking Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit—appears to herald China’s ascendant global leadership. Western commentators are understandably alarmed, viewing

How millennia of history vanished in Sudan's war

In the scorched courtyard of Sudan's National Museum in Khartoum, a towering black granite statue of Kush Pharaoh Taharqa now stands alone, surrounded by shards of broken glass and shattered stone. Since the museum was looted in the early days of Sudan's war between the army

Pritzker on 2028: 'I don't know what the future holds'

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) would not rule out a 2028 run for president when asked repeatedly about his political future in a Sunday interview. “I'm not thinking about— that's too far away,” Pritzker said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” regarding the next Democratic