Japan’s Chances at Regional Leadership

The country might be approaching its first good opportunity in the 21st century to regain the position of regional leader.

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The war in Ukraine is a timely reminder that no matter what else may be happening in the world, China and Japan, the heavyweights of the Asia-Pacific, cannot be overlooked. They have the region’s largest economies and boast strong, dynamically developing militaries. It’s little wonder, then, that China and Japan are often compared with one […]

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Victoria Herczegh
Viktória Herczegh is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. She is also a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations Doctoral School of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her PhD research topic is "Double Standards projected by Great Powers". Ms. Herczegh holds a bachelor's degree of Chinese Language and Culture and a master's degree of East Asian Studies. She also spent one semester at Shanghai International Studies University studying Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Herczegh is a native Hungarian fluent in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin.