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U.S. government institutions tasked with strategic communicationshave lacked the leadership and resources necessary to do their joband have operated with virtually no interagency coordination.Congress and the President should create an institutional frameworkand strategy that includes a new U.S. Agency for StrategicCommunications, substantial reforms of the Department of State, andgreater utilization of the Pentagon's combatant commands.

The upcoming ‘Wagyu Olympics’ in Kagoshima Prefecture is expected to create much-needed buzz about the industry among consumers at home and abroad.

Jeremy Goldkorn:Chairman Mao Zedong said that power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and he knew a thing or two about power, both hard and soft. If you have enough guns, you have respect. Money is the same: if you have enough cash, you can buy guns, and respect.Israel and Saudi Arabia are examples of the limits of such respect.

Vice President Joe Biden's outline of the Obama Administration's foreign policy vision should be viewed as one of the weakest projections of U.S. leadership in recent memory.

"Next to Obama Beach, we join President Obama in paying particular tribute to the spectacular bravery of American soldiers who gave their lives." Most assume it was a Freudian slip or a teleprompter malfunction (something from which Mr. Obama himself has been known to suffer). But maybe there's more to think about here.

Negative public opinion is fuelling discourse and xenophobia between China and South Korea, and a public survey says the source is largely young adults – rather than their parents or grandparents.

Deeply intertwined economic connections between China and Japan – built up over decades – are seen as the bedrock for stability in China-Japan relations, despite deep-rooted historical disputes and political mistrust.

Covid-19 restriction has hurt Japan’s competitiveness and caused many students to give up their plans or head elsewhere for their study abroad experience, observers say.

With an activist Supreme Court creating a gap between democratic rhetoric and reality in the U.S., and Russia and China eager to flex military muscle, the full-force return to hard power looks bound for dominance.

Trained practitioners warn that unregulated yoga can be detrimental to people's health. The government in India, where the ancient practice was invented, knows this very well — yet continues to postpone regulation.