Join us Tuesday, December 9 at 9:30 am EST (2:30 pm GMT | 11:30 pm JST) to discuss Indo-Pacific regional economic developments and opportunities and challenges for US-Japan economic cooperation—in person or online: www.csis.org/events/build...

Just released: Nick Szechenyi and I joined Will Todman on the latest episode of the @csis.org State of Play podcast to discuss the current state of US-Japan relations and the implications of Japan's recent election for foreign policy. Check it out: www.csis.org/podcasts/sta...

What are Trump’s options if the IEEPA tariffs are ruled unlawful? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Trump claims that he has struck a trade deal with Vietnam

New publication: My latest article for Pacific Forum argues that now is a critical time for Japan and South Korea to further strengthen bilateral relations and outlines ways that the two countries can work together moving forward: pacforum.org/publications...

Check out the video of my conversation with Japanese legislators Itsunori Onodera and Shinjiro Koizumi @csis.org yesterday—we talked tariffs, defense, and the broader outlook for US-Japan relations (available in English and Japanese): www.csis.org/events/outlo...

The new tariffs will affect companies that supply the US from plants in Mexico, including American companies and companies headquartered in US allied countries such as Japan and South Korea. Some examples from the auto industry:

📣 I have a new essay out this week in Asia Policy, “US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Engagement on Economic Security: Disentangling Resilience, Competitiveness, and Protection.” The whole roundtable is free to download for a limited time: www.nbr.org/publication/...

I enjoyed spending 2 days at Wilton Park last week discussing the role of UK-Japan partnership in a contested world with experts and policymakers. There are many challenges but also many opportunities—I look forward to hearing what's next, including more on the recently announced economic 2+2 talks.

I have a new policy brief out today discussing the progress in US-Korea-Japan trilateral cooperation over the past two years and reflecting on what lies ahead now that it looks likely that all three countries will have different political leadership soon: emma-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/0oueb/8df6a4...

Less than 24 hours left to apply for our open-rank, open-field position in Japanese Law and Society at Oxford! Details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

China’s long-term bond yields have fallen below Japan’s for the first time, as investors bet that China will become bogged down by deflation www.ft.com/content/d299...

As everyone calculates their exposure to potential US tariffs, here's an article on UK/Europe—in short, the UK is expected to be buffered by a large services sector but more exposed than European peers because the US is the #1 customer in 9 of 15 UK export sectors: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For those interested in the impact of Trump’s proposed tariffs, Canada’s top export to the US is energy, and Canada-US trade as a whole involves a lot of intermediate inputs—i.e., a significant share of Canadian exports to the US are actually inputs for US exports businessdatalab.ca/publications...