The looming leadership vacuum in the Indo-Pacific

Unpredictable Trump, lack of Abe figure in Japan, opens door for authoritarians

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Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Shigeru Ishiba arrives for a press conference a day after Japan's lower house election, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 28, 2024.  © Reuters

Jeffrey W. Hornung is a senior political scientist and the Japan lead of the national security research division of think tank RAND Corp. in Washington.

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