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Japan’s postwar constitution renounces war ‘forever’. But with fears that US actions in Venezuela could embolden China to seize Taiwan, Sanae Takaichi could be tempted into a risky game.-2026/02/ article, 2026/02 Japan

World leaders are keen to move on from Gaza, to call it a solved problem. But this is not an exception: shelving suffering and erasing ‘awkward’ peoples, has become a defining logic of our time.-2026/02/ article

Asserting that the Ottoman empire perpetrated a genocide of its Armenian citizens in 1915 remains prohibited under Turkey’s penal code. Denial prevents the state’s founding myth from unravelling.-2026/02/ article

For decades, the LDP delivered enough prosperity and stability for the Japanese to accept a one-party state. Now, the ideological malleability that long sustained it is turning into something harder.-2026/02/ article

The senator from South Carolina has spent three decades advocating aggressive intervention as the solution to international problems. No wonder Trump’s rhetoric is music to his ears.-2026/02/ article

Sources: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, 2025, www.sipri.org; World Bank database, databank.worldbank.org-Arms trade/ Map, 2026/02 four powers

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Transfer Database, 2025-Arms trade/ Map, 2026/02 war weapons

Donald Trump has sent a ‘massive armada’ to the Middle East, as he urged the Iranian regime to come to the table on a deal over nuclear weapons.