Since assuming office in late 2024, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has drawn repeated criticism from Beijing. Chinese officials described her remarks on Taiwan as blatantly provocative, and her offering to the Yasukuni Shrine prompted formal expressions of concern from China’s Foreign Ministry. The resulting strain in bilateral relations has spilled beyond official diplomacy into the everyday practicalities of cross-border travel. This article asks how these diplomatic

The New York Times. (2026, September 26). https://cn.nytimes.com/business/20260926/china-trump-xi-truce/ During the 2026 state visit hosted in Washington, D.C., in September of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump asked whether China would be interested in purchasing American weapons during an official state visit. This was what David Perdue, the American ambassador to China, said in a television interview on September 27th, 2026. President Trump later denied that the topic

Introduction Is democracy better protected in the hands of the lettered or unlettered men? Thinkers and politicians have debated this question since the emergence of democracy, but ongoing controversies around Donald Trump's presidential election in the United States demand further analysis. Edmund Burke, a philosopher and politician from Great Britain in the late 18th century, was among the first to systematically discuss the relation between democracy and education. Burke c