The Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський 🇺🇦 speech on Victory Day today is as different from Putin’s - setting as well as content - as you can imagine.

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Temple University Japan Zoom Anti-Asian hate and violence in US: 27 June 2022 9:30 (Tokyo) 26 June 17:30 SFO - 20:30 NYC icontact-archive.com/archive?c=3978…

This debate really was filled with a bunch of arm-pit farters and then there was Liz Cheney, the only serious person up there.

We will run a small seminar on Abe’s foreign policy legacy at TUJ Friday 15 July 16:30. If interested email me. Thanks

Japon: l'impossible objectif touristique challenges.fr/monde/japon-l-… via Challenges

Igor Sushko I still wonder how it‘s possible that the political officer in „hunt for red October“ is called Putin. His fate was quickly sealed. youtu.be/DVvOsQpGd3k

A la télé française : Novembre 2021 : "Poutine est fort, il faut négocier avec lui, sinon..." Octobre 2022 : "Poutine est faible, il faut négocier avec lui, sinon..."

Message of 🇺🇦 Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov to 🇷🇺 troops: "You will be remembered as thieves, rapists and murderers. I will tell you what comes next. Thousands of russian lads will die. We guarantee life, safety and justice to all those who refuse to fight immediately."

Photos online purport to show a rare protest in Beijing’s Haidian district just ahead of the 20th Party Congress. Extraordinary given pre-Congress security + surveillance Among the slogans: ‘Don’t want PCR tests, want to eat’ ‘Don’t want a Cultural revolution, want reforms’

Professor Yashiro of Showa Women’s University speaking now about Abenomics and Kishida’s New Capitalism to a full house at an ICAS session at Temple University Japan.

Psychosis

François Heisbourg Something just happened there, on Place of the Liberty in #Kherson. It is the first time in the history of the European Union that blood has been shed so that this flag can be hoisted on the land of a candidate country!

Amongst the winter kit provided to Ukrainian recruits training on UK soil, will be a special token of UK support. A refillable lighter, a soldier’s best friend for generations. Engraved with the message: “Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the heroes.” 🇺🇦🤝🇬🇧

asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Free-a… My latest piece in Nikkei Asia.

See you over on Mastodon/Post/whatevs while this site slouches toward Myspace

New Year greetings of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy youtu.be/ANaVkRxDPCI via YouTube

The 1970's brain drain is back…says the man who is responsible for it!

Article suggests Kishida’s Kyiv visit became much more difficult after Yomiuri (22 Jan) revealed it was under consideration. For security reasons, plan had been to visit without forewarning public. Article suggests Kishida’s son was responsible for leak. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/12ff6…

Temple University, Japan Campus Unveils a 25-Million-Yen Donation to Support its Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies en-news.tuj.ac.jp/2023/03/20/tuj…