The Trump Interviews – What went wrong?

The Trump Interviews – What went wrong?

photo: courtesy AXIOS ON HBO The Trump Interviews – What Went Wrong?   From a media training perspective, the recent President Trump interviews with Axios and Fox News raise some fundamental issues. Before any newsmaker goes before the media, they are given a...

Japan Pushes the Speed Limit on Trade Talks

This item originally appeared in Foreign Policy Magazine Trade talks with the United States pose a problem for Japan, largely because the Japanese don’t really want to be there. On balance they are happy with the status quo, have no real demands for concessions from...

Abe Just Won’t Quit

Japanese prime ministers usually resign at the first whiff of scandal — but this one is breaking the mold. By William Sposato | June 8, 2018 This is an article that was originally published in Foreign Policy Magazine. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has a fondness...

In Abe’s Japan, Economics Taking a Back Seat

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has had a busy few months. After a summer of pushing through controversial new defense policies, he held a successful and strategically important trilateral summit with South Korea and China and crossed visiting all of...