Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Japan’s Incrementalism in the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility
…developing countries. According to statistical data reported by the GFF in December 2021, undernutrition is related to about 45 percent of child mortality, and anemia leads to some 20 percent…
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Japan’s Response to IMF’s Special Drawing Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic
…On August 2, 2021, the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as international reserve assets equivalent…
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People’s Tribunal versus People’s Republic
…This weekend something unusual is going to happen. From June 4th to 7th an independent tribunal in the UK will hear evidence about human rights abuses against ethnic…
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Trump’s Facebook Ban Upheld as U.S.-EU Mull Action on Big Tech
…Amid the invasion of Capitol Hill four months ago, social media giants Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube banned then-President Donald Trump from their platforms, citing repeated violations of the…
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Trump’s “Peace through Strength” and the Japan-U.S. Alliance Revisited
…On January 20, 2021, Joseph Biden is scheduled to assume the next U.S. President succeeding Donald Trump who had taken presidential leadership since January 20, 2017. It has…
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The Evolution of Japan’s Space Strategy: Its Dual-Use Nature and Implications for the Japan-U.S. Alliance
…In recent years Japan has begun to be considered as something of a “space power”, with its technological advancements in key areas such as robotics being a key…
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Macau’s Moment: China’s Other Special Administrative Region
…While demonstrations in Hong Kong have grown in scope and intensity this summer, little attention has been paid to China’s other former European colony turned Special Administrative Region…