SPF China Observer: Satellite Imagery Analysis - China’s Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility Begins Operation — Progress Toward Establishing a Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Satellite imagery has confirmed that the first plant of a nuclear fuel reprocessing facility under construction in inland Gansu Province, China, has likely commenced operation.

SPF China Observer: A Concert of Free Nations and the CPTPP ―A Vision of World Order in the Era of Post-unipolar U.S. Hegemony―

1. Introduction: A concert of free nations and Trump’s diplomacy U.S. President Donald Trump’s diplomacy has caused Western allies’ long-held concern about over-dependence on unipolar U.S. hegemony to become reality.

IINA: Restoration of Trust Between India and the United States Remains a Distant Goal Despite the Visit to India by Secretary of State Rubio and the Holding of the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

Secretary of State Marco Rubio of the United States (U.S.) visited India for the first time from May 23 to May 27, 2026. India-U.S. relations had been steadily deteriorating after India resolutely refused to endorse U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he had brokered a ceasefire in the four-day skirmishes between India and Pakistan that had occurred exactly one year previously.

By Toru Ito, Professor, Department of International Relations & Graduate School of Security Studies, National Defense Academy of Japan