Reshaping Japan's approach towards defence
As regional threats intensify, Japan is rewriting its postwar defence stance – signalling a strategic turn in Asia’s security landscape.
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As regional threats intensify, Japan is rewriting its postwar defence stance – signalling a strategic turn in Asia’s security landscape.

India’s growth blazes ahead of its peers, with the local manufacturing sector unshaken by global trade disruptions.

China is working quickly on opening wider trade routes with Latin America, a tactical move to broaden its export markets in the face of highly volatile trade with the US.

Southern Eurozone member-states will benefit in the short term from ever-growing mass tourism, but it is hard to say that anything has fundamentally improved during the last year.

The global economy is changing rapidly, though the German export-dependent economy is lost behind – only huge reforms can solve the problems.

The UK is battling several fires at once, with possibilities of high domestic living costs rising amid a worsening global trade war. Can the government soften the blow by signing new trade deals?

While global central banks hold steady, Brazil is charting its own path as it raises rates, battles inflation, and tests investor confidence.

The US is learning a lesson the hard way as the intensified tariff war it waged against China and the rest of the world has inflicted more pain at home relative to its targets.







