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Fuji Bank Professor of Japanese Politics & the International Relations of East Asia, Cambridge; Head, Japan and Koreas Programme, @CamGeopolitics , University of Cambridge
Great discussion with Steve Herman, @newsguy.bsky.social , until recently VOA’s chief national correspondent, abou the threats to press freedom, personal liberty and the Open Society in #Trump's America.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3291...
YouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
A further effort by Trump to muzzle the media. For more on this see:
Great discussion with Steve Herman, @newsguy.bsky.social , until recently VOA’s chief national correspondent, abou the threats to press freedom, personal liberty and the Open Society in #Trump's America.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3291...
YouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics
KOIZUMI Shinjiro: young, popular TAKAICHI Sanae: maintain conservative block KOBAYASHI Takayuki - contender in last presidential election & has support HAYASHI Yoshimasa & KATO Katsonobu: potential for working well with opposition Unclear who delivers best on all 3 criteria
Key criteria for future LDP leader & PM:
Excellent video explainer of Ishiba’s problems, including results of his meeting yesterday with Suga, Aso and Kishida - none of whom were prepared to endorse his continuation as PM. Race for successor likely to kick off in 2nd half of August.
参院選で大敗した石破茂首相（自民党総裁）の進退が焦点になっています。23日には、麻生太郎、菅義偉両元首相、岸田文雄前首相の首相経験者3氏との異例の会談もありました。 会談後、記者団の取材に応じた石破…
#Ishiba has ltd room for manoeuvre and no obvious path for governing. Prefectural party chapters demanding resignation & looking to convene joint LDP house convention to vote against PM. Also, key opposition party heads (Ishin, DPFP, CDP) won’t coop w/ LDP
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
自民党内で石破茂首相（党総裁）の辞任を求める声が強まってきた。経済や外交など国政に停滞は許されず、政権運営にこのまま展望が開けないのであれば首相は進退を判断すべきだ。参院選で自民党は大敗し、公明党と合わせた議席で衆院に続いて参院でも過半数を失った。首相は自公で過半数の議席確保を「必達目標」としていたにもかかわらず、比較第1党として「国政に停滞を招かない」と続投を表明した。そう断言するのなら首
The first in our new On Geopolitics podcasts is out. With @suzanneraine.bsky.social offering her dispassionate and historically informed perspective, we talk to Nobukatsu Kanehara, one of Japan’s leading strategic thinkers.
On Geopolitics Currents - Episode 1: Japan’s foreign policy challenges in the new Trump era is out now! Listen now with @jnilssonwright.bsky.social and @suzanneraine.bsky.social
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Podcast Episode · On Geopolitics · 07/23/2025 · 41m
Ishiba now claiming that he needs to stay on as PM to avoid a split within the LDP. From completing the trade deal with the US to maintaining party unity, the rationale for staying shifts at time when public support for the LDP has dropped to 19%. Ishiba: clever tactician or politically obstinate?
Ishiba now publicly pushing back against local news reports that he intends to resign. With local chapters of the LDP expressing discontent and rumours of pressure from senior figures in party to encourage/force his resignation hard to determine where the balance of truth lies.
