Analytics

Tensions between Japan and China have risen sharply amid the situation surrounding Taiwan. In November 2025, Japan's newly appointed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi openly stated that a possible armed attack by China on Taiwan would become ‘a situation that threatens Japan's survival’ – meaning it could require a military response from Tokyo...

On 21 October 2025, a woman became Prime Minister of Japan for the first time. The nationalist Sanae Takaichi headed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was elected Prime Minister by the lower house after Shigeru Ishiba had resigned. The political geometry has changed...

The escalation currently gaining momentum on the part of the Kremlin, is both an attempt to scare Europe away from the intentions on which a consensus has finally been reached in leading European capitals, and an attempt to persuade Chinese leader Xi Jinping to provide better assistance than is currently available...

China considers the South China Sea its ‘internal’ sea and therefore claims many islands in the region. These islands are mostly Philippine. This is a simple explanation for the recent aggressive actions of Chinese ships and military exercises near these islands...

In the early 2000s, the pace of China’s economic growth, along with its geographic and demographic indicators, already provided grounds to predict that "China’s claims to redistribute global resources and spheres of influence" could move beyond "purely theoretical discussions"...