Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just finished a state visit to the US that included a weekend of golf at President Donald Trump's Florida resort.
Just as it was during Trump's election campaign, trade remains a contentious issue between the countries. But, as Craig Mark explains, Abe has already achieved Japan's foremost diplomatic goal of ensuring the continuity its security alliance with America.
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Cabinet Public Relations Office/Handout via Reuters
Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women's University
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have just demonstrated to other world leaders how to possibly approach President Donald Trump.
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Politics + Society
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Mark R Thompson, City University of Hong Kong
After more than 7,000 killings by police and vigilantes, an incident involving the death of a South Korea businessman has finally put an end of Rodrigo Duterte's drug war.
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Business + Economy
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Christopher Sheil, UNSW; Frank Stilwell, University of Sydney
The IMF has been expressing public concern about inequality since 2010, but this has not translated into concrete action within the IMF’s own policies and programs.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
The world needs an alternative system, measuring economic value in face of the dissatisfaction that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
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Science + Technology
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Julien Benoit, University of the Witwatersrand
CT scanning allows scientists to observe and "dissect" fossils digitally using computer software - and to uncover secrets that are hundreds of millions of years old.
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