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Last month, President Donald Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for a visit that captured both the promise and the shortcomings of America’s Indo‑Pacific strategy.In some ways, the meeting was a success: It produced a few commercial deals, reaffirmed the strength of the bilateral relationship, and — most importantly — demonstrated a visibly warm personal rapport between the two leaders (despite an awkward moment).
Editor’s note: This article is the eighth in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. This special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page.In Sept. 2010, following a collision between a Chinese trawler and Japanese coast guard vessels near the Senkaku Islands, Chinese authorities halted shipments of rare earth minerals to Japan.
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This past weekend, on April 18, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at accelerating research and access to psychedelic therapies for serious mental illness, placing veterans at the center of the effort. Substances once pushed to the margins—psilocybin, MDMA, ibogaine—are now being discussed at the highest levels of government as potential tools to address PTSD, depression, addiction, and suicide. On its face, this is a bold move. It acknowledges something many veterans already know: the current system is not reaching everyone who needs help.
United States Air Force F-22 fifth generation fighters operating from Basa Air Base in the Philippines have flown near contested territories int he South China Sea, as well as the strategically located Luzon Strait, which U.S. experts have expands military pressure across the first island chain as part of the Pivot to Asia initiative. Exercise Cope Thunder 26-1 showed that U.S.
China is rapidly expanding its military power across the Indo-Pacific, fielding advanced missile systems and modern warships, constructing supercarriers, building a growing carrier fleet designed to challenge U.S. dominance in the region, and rapidly closing the technological gap with the U.S. aerospace sector. But at the center of its massive buildup is a project that has yet to fully appear in public view: the Xi’an H-20 stealth bomber.
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For decades, the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was a visible symbol of American maritime power – and while for many years it served as an operational flattop, it later became a news story as the Navy grappled with the difficulty of retiring a ship of this size.
On January 16, 2025, the decommissioned carrier departed the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia to be towed to Brownsville, Texas, where it will be dismantled. “The ex-John F. Kennedy (CV 67) began its final journey this morning as it departed from the U.S.