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Trump Heading to Tokyo to Talk Cybersecurity, Regional Threats

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2017. DoD Photo

President Donald Trump will head to Tokyo later this month to discuss how to resume stalled denuclearization talks with North Korea, work more jointly on cybersecurity with the Japanese and build upon his meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in resolving trade issues between the two nations.

Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., last week, U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty said Kim Jong Un’s decision...

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/03/trump-heading-to-tokyo-to-talk-cybersecurity-regional-threats

Panel: Russia Will Reap Benefits from Iranian Oil Crackdown

Undated photo of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Kremlin Photo

Vladimir Putin could turn out to be the big winner economically and diplomatically if the United States sticks to its pledge of no more sanction waivers for countries buying Iranian oil, a leading expert on the Middle East said on Monday.

With reduced choices of where to buy oil, China, Turkey, South Korea, Japan and others who had been granted waivers that end this week may soon be buying from Putin’s Russia, Michael Pregent,...

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/01/panel-russia-will-reap-benefits-from-iranian-oil-crackdown

U.K. Relationship With US, Role in Global Defense Unlikely to Change After Brexit

Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) watch as the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth II (R 08) pulls into Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Oct 27, 2018.

The United Kingdom’s security relationship with the United States will remain “exceptional, uniquely wide and deep” even as the U.K. prepares to depart from the European Union next year, Britain’s top envoy to the United States said.

That relationship, Kim Darroch said Monday at the Hudson Institute in...

https://news.usni.org/2018/11/27/u-k-relationship-us-role-global-defense-unlikely-change-brexit

French Ambassador Says Washington Could Do More to Help Shape Syria’s Future


The Bashar al Assad regime’s ever-tightening circle on Syrian resistance fighters could send a million or more refugees into Turkey and scatter thousands of Islamic extremists around the region, France’s ambassador to Washington warned Monday.

Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., he added, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met over the weekend in Istanbul to discuss...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/30/french-ambassador-says-washington-help-shape-syrias-future

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