Japan and NATO's interests are increasingly aligned, although their links are still only symbolic.

As China's global security and economic footprint grows, the participation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a NATO summit for the second consecutive year shows how Asia and Europe's strategic interests are increasingly convergent. However, since the relationship is still develo...

Macron reaches the third barrier of politics in France and shuts it down

The general strike that was to shut France down last Thursday now extends to the next week at least, when President Macron continues to push his nation into the 21st century.

This time he lands on the third rail, the national Byzantine pension system, in French society and politics. Mac...