China’s assertiveness and America’s withdrawal are creating short circuits and bringing the world into a nuclear escalation. Both China and the US would lose. They need serious steps to avert the worst. Just hours before the 2025 winter solstice, the Japanese press reported that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering building a nuclear bomb. Similar […]
Are law and prophecy, as well as social order and social transformation, necessarily antagonistic forces? What kind of legal system does a democratic society need to establish new and more relevant conditions for its operation? A dialogue between theology, law, and politics could offer new perspectives for both the Catholic Church and our contemporary societies […]
Political fig leaves, Trump’s Chinese agenda, North Korea’s nuclear missiles, and the use of force. There are four distinct yet interconnected sets of problems fueling the ongoing Chinese rhetorical offensive against Japan over Taiwan. The island is, de facto independent but de jure part of one China, as the Republic of China (ROC), thus officially […]
China is the elephant in the room of the Ukrainian peace talks, and the Witkoff plan looks like a way to have Russia be the winner while the US and China destroy each other. A real point of the peace plan on Ukraine is: what does China think? In fact, China is the elephant in […]
Japan’s PM’s statement put Beijing in a tough spot regarding reunification — its national ideology. China needs to shift its mindset to get out of the predicament it’s in. China-Japan relations seem to have been repaired after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Taiwan. A Japanese envoy visited China to offer an apology. Takaichi […]
Tokyo’s statement on the island and its security reveals an open wound: China’s ambitions in the East China Sea, amid increasing regional hostility, and the outcome remains very uncertain. The Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi’s recent statement on Taiwan (the island, de facto independent but de jure part of one China) shifted Asian and global dynamics […]
The modern democratic system’s transformation, sometimes toward authoritarian models, and the upheaval of the world order under the Trump administration’s international policy cannot be irrelevant to Catholic theology. However, Catholic theology is unprepared to intelligently and wisely interpret today’s political events, both in evangelical and civil perspective. The public square seems foreign to the ways […]
