United World International publishes an essay titled “Nuclear energy issues and discrimination against Korea and Koreans” published in the 165th issue of Shiso-Undo News, with the Editorial Office of Shiso-Undo’s note to the writing. On October 8, 2022, Dr. Koide Hiroaki gave a lecture on the theme of “discrimination against Koreans in Japanese society,” hosted by Tanpoposha (No Nukes Plaza), ...
By Orçun Göktürk The 20th Shangri-La Dialogue, held in Singapore from June 2 to 4, revealed important clues about US strategy for NATO expansion in the Asia-Pacific. Originally Chinese, the word Shangri-La means “heaven on earth” or “utopia”. Some have called the meeting “Asia’s Munich Security Summit”. The organizer is the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based “think ...
East Asia, or the Indo-Pacific as the United States calls it, is becoming increasingly a region of local and global tensions. The global conflict evolves mainly between the United States and China, regional conflicts among countries of the region follow. Foreign policies of China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines tend to reflect increasing regional tension. In that context, the ...
United World International has started publishing papers that were presented to the Global Multipolarity Confernce held on April 29. UWI published the video address of Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, to the conference that was organized by Nova Resistência (Brazil), the New International Order Initiative (Türkiye), the International Eurasian Movement (Russia), the Thinkers’ Forum (China) and the International Russophile Movement. ...
By Orçun Göktürk * While the almost a year-long Russian special military operation in Ukraine is halting NATO’s expansion to the East, the United States of America (USA) is simultaneously stepping up its aggression not only in Europe but also in the Asia-Pacific. Melodie Ha, an expert at the US Department of Defense, recently stated: “We need to further engage ...
By Lee Jaesung * On July 8, two gunshots resounded in the streets, shocking the world. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the age of 67, was shot dead during a campaign for support. There are still many unresolved doubts around him, but one thing that everyone can agree on is that an important giant of Japanese diplomacy of ...
By Michael Roberts * Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida comfortably won last October’s general election for the lower house of the Diet for the ruling Liberal Democrats (albeit with a slightly reduced majority). And he is headed for victory in this Sunday’s upper house election, likely to extend the number of seats it holds to 60 out of 125 contested. So ...
By Sakai Tanaka * The main point of the case of the murder of Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister, on July 8 was that Abe was the mastermind and fixer who controls the Liberal Democrat Party LDP. Abe retired from the position of Prime Minister two years ago, Yoshihide Suga succeeded him and then Fumio Kishida, who is now ...
By Mehmet Emre Öztürk Shinzo Abe was giant capable the political landscape from behind the curtain His death following an assassination seems prone to change political balances in both domestic and foreign affairs. Abe’s death has already changed the political dynamics within the Liberal Democrat Party LDP. It cannot be dismissed that the assassination has shaken the political centers that ...
By Mehmet Emre Öztürk The Japanese Ministry of Defense has published its Annual White Paper, a report formed by the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” strategy. The Japan-United States (US) alliance is widely covered in the white paper, in addition to subjects such as Chinese coast guard boats, the North Korean missile development program, earthquakes, space and cyber security. The Indo-Pacific ...