Foreign Policy

Japan Poll: 64% Favor United States Pressure on North Korea

The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: Sixty-four percent of respondents to a Yomiuri Shimbun national opinion poll said they favorably evaluate U.S. moves to increase military pressure on North Korea, which is advancing its nuclear and ballistic missile [...]

William Hagerty Nominated as U.S. Ambassador to Japan

President Donald Trump will nominate Tennessee businessman William Hagerty, a key member of his transition team, as U.S. ambassador to Japan, the White House said Thursday. Hagerty, 57, who as director of presidential appointments helped select [...]

Richard Solomon, Nixon’s ‘Ping-Pong Piplomat’, Dead at 79

Richard Solomon, whose ‘ping-pong diplomacy’ helped Nixon normalize US relations with China, dies aged 79. Top US diplomat and China scholar Richard Solomon, who played a leading role in the opening of US relations with Beijing under Richard [...]