The highlights from Kishida Fumio's busy week in Washington.

Russia’s expanding security ties with North Korea raise weighty foreign policy questions for Japan and complicate the geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific. 

AGOA is the cornerstone of the U.S.-Africa trade relationship, but declining support has called the program’s value into question.

Hobbled by foreign interventions, political instability, and natural disasters, the former French colony is paralyzed by multiple crises.

The new defense treaty demonstrates a growing closeness between the two pariah states that is likely to make the rest of the world uneasy.