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Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 8, 2022
The race is on to rearm eastern front that may decide Ukraine war
As Russia refocuses its invasion of Ukraine on the east, recognition is growing in Kyiv and allied capitals that the window to prevent a long war of attrition may be narrow.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 5, 2022
Ukraine's stateless trapped in war zone with no proof they exist
Ukraine has thousands of people not recognized as a citizen of any country — without proof of identity, they are trapped in the fighting as checkpoints proliferate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2022
Why Putin faces 'more NATO' in the Arctic after Ukraine invasion
As nonmembers, Finland and Sweden don't have the protection of NATO's guarantee that an attack on one ally is an attack on all, but moves to join the alliance are growing more likely.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 30, 2022
The invasion of Ukraine is an opportunity for China
Beijing could seize the moment to find common cause with the West over the Ukraine invasion and defuse some of the concern about its intentions.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 30, 2022
Peace talks may be little more than Russian tactics, analysts say
As signs of progress emerged during the peace talks, some saw them as Russia buying time to regroup its military forces before another offensive push in Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 29, 2022
NATO allies divided over whether they should be talking to Putin
With Russia's war in Ukraine now in its second month, a series of dilemmas are coming into sharp focus over conditions for any accord and potential security guarantees for Kyiv.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2022
'Russia will pay': West to warn Putin in trio of summits
The hectic day of summitry involving NATO, the G7 and the EU will kick off at the transatlantic defense alliance's headquarters in Brussels.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2022
The Ukraine war could trigger a nuclear-arms race in Asia
Putin is sending one clear message with his Ukraine invasion: if you have nukes, nobody messes with you. The security risks this poses cannot be overestimated.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2022
Ukraine is changing the world order, just not how Putin hoped
From Berlin to London and Baltic capitals like Tallinn, the metrics of defending Europe have been torn up.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022
The smaller bombs that could turn Ukraine into a nuclear war zone
Fears are growing that if Vladimir Putin feels cornered, he might choose to detonate one of his smaller weapons — breaking the taboo set 76 years ago after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 21, 2022
Amid fears of further Russian expansionism, NATO looks to its weakest link
An emboldened Moscow could encircle NATO's new Baltic members, cutting them off from the alliance — if a new Iron Curtain is to fall, NATO needs to ensure its members are not behind it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2022
NATO must get MAD at Russia's nuclear threats
If Russia adopts an aggressive posture and puts its nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles on a high state of readiness, NATO must respond in kind.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 18, 2022
Russian missiles strike Ukraine's Lyiv, Biden to talk to Xi
Russian missiles struck an area near the airport of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early on Friday, while Japan and Australia imposed new sanctions on Russia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2022
Shells hit theater sheltering Ukraine civilians as Biden calls Putin a war criminal
Moscow has yet to capture any of Ukraine's biggest cities following its invasion, the largest assault on a European state since World War II, raising fears of wider conflict in the West.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2022
Ukraine war gives Taiwan pointers for its own defense
The invasion of Ukraine has sparked a conversation about how well Taiwan's armed forces and civilian population are prepared to fend off a Chinese invasion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2022
Why so many countries want to sit out the new Cold War
Some countries' distrust of aggressive regional powers such as Russia and China is balanced by suspicions that the U.S. is a profoundly weakened and highly unstable superpower.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2022
Russian bombs continue to pound Ukraine cities despite signs of a compromise at peace talks
In a hint of a possible compromise, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine was prepared to accept security guarantees from the West that stop short of its long-term goal of joining NATO.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2022
Biden plans Europe trip for Ukraine summit next week as refugees top 3 million
Hopes for a compromise at emergency peace talks grow as Ukrainian officials claim Moscow may be coming to terms with its failure to impose a new government by force.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 15, 2022
Diplomacy quickens to halt Ukraine war or stop its expansion
A flurry of recent developments suggest that people are groping for a way out of the crisis — or, failing that, for ways to prevent it from mutating into a wider proxy war.

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