On this week’s episode of Departures with Robert Amsterdam we’re pleased to invite our friend and colleague of many years Jakob Edberg, the co-founder of The GR Company, a government relations consultancy headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and with offices in Osaka, Seoul, London, and Washington DC.
While the United States-China rivalry has been widely regarded as a zero-sum game due to the intensity of their competition in the global economy, Southeast Asia stands to benefit from it. Finding themselves in a favourable position between two of the world’s strongest superpowers, ASEAN member states should employ a realistic framework focused on diplomacy and neutrality to use their strategic significance for collaboration with the different regional stakeholders.
On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Washington for a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden. The meeting aims to deepen the strategic alliance between the two nations