Parker Walton
@parkerjwalton.bsky.social
DC-based analyst. Mainly lurking.
Japanese speaker with expertise in NE Asia security and US-China Great Power Competition.
Other interests: jazz, college football, video games.
Previously @ CSIS, The Asahi Shimbun. Baylor and GW grad.
Opinions mine.
Japanese speaker with expertise in NE Asia security and US-China Great Power Competition.
Other interests: jazz, college football, video games.
Previously @ CSIS, The Asahi Shimbun. Baylor and GW grad.
Opinions mine.
68% of Japanese respondents to a Nikkei survey last year said they were in favor of constitutional reform. 68%. Highest number since the poll began, per Nikkei.
I can only imagine those numbers will go up this year.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
I can only imagine those numbers will go up this year.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
憲法改正｢賛成｣68%、調査開始から最多 護憲派3割切る - 日本経済新聞
日本経済新聞社は2024年の郵送世論調査で、憲法改正の是非をたずねた。「憲法を改正した方がよい」との回答が68%で、18年に調査を始めてから最多となった。「改正しない方がよい」と答えた人は28%だった。年代別にみると、20代は6割、30〜60代は7割が改憲に賛成した。男性は7割、女性は6割が改正した方がよいと答えた。改憲意識の高まりについて、一橋大の江藤祥平教授（憲法）は「漠然とした先行きへ
www.nikkei.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
68% of Japanese respondents to a Nikkei survey last year said they were in favor of constitutional reform. 68%. Highest number since the poll began, per Nikkei.
I can only imagine those numbers will go up this year.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
I can only imagine those numbers will go up this year.
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
A hunch for no particular reason...
Expect renewed calls in Seoul and Tokyo for a nuclear deterrent in the near-term.
Expect renewed calls in Seoul and Tokyo for a nuclear deterrent in the near-term.
February 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A hunch for no particular reason...
Expect renewed calls in Seoul and Tokyo for a nuclear deterrent in the near-term.
Expect renewed calls in Seoul and Tokyo for a nuclear deterrent in the near-term.
Shinzo Abe's influence on POTUS continues?
I joke, but hand-selecting members of the press pool able to ask the president questions is a play akin to Japan and its infamous "kisha kurabu" 記者クラブ (lit. reporters' club)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisha_c...
I joke, but hand-selecting members of the press pool able to ask the president questions is a play akin to Japan and its infamous "kisha kurabu" 記者クラブ (lit. reporters' club)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisha_c...
White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump
In announcing plans to handpick the reporters who can ask the president questions, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Shinzo Abe's influence on POTUS continues?
I joke, but hand-selecting members of the press pool able to ask the president questions is a play akin to Japan and its infamous "kisha kurabu" 記者クラブ (lit. reporters' club)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisha_c...
I joke, but hand-selecting members of the press pool able to ask the president questions is a play akin to Japan and its infamous "kisha kurabu" 記者クラブ (lit. reporters' club)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisha_c...
Xinhua reporters are going viral on Twitter over Xiaohongshu. A dream for Beijing.
Sure wish there was a "Chinese state media" label on stuff like this.
Sure wish there was a "Chinese state media" label on stuff like this.
January 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Xinhua reporters are going viral on Twitter over Xiaohongshu. A dream for Beijing.
Sure wish there was a "Chinese state media" label on stuff like this.
Sure wish there was a "Chinese state media" label on stuff like this.
I need smart policy wonks talking more on this app. I deleted my Twitter account, dammit!
January 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I need smart policy wonks talking more on this app. I deleted my Twitter account, dammit!
Reposted by Parker Walton
Did a talk on journalism to undergraduates. Learned very interesting stuff about how youngsters consume and interpret information, and how they judge the news media (trigger alert for any journalists out there whose core belief is that we're important).
1) Gen Z/Alpha doesn't think about the news
1) Gen Z/Alpha doesn't think about the news
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Did a talk on journalism to undergraduates. Learned very interesting stuff about how youngsters consume and interpret information, and how they judge the news media (trigger alert for any journalists out there whose core belief is that we're important).
1) Gen Z/Alpha doesn't think about the news
1) Gen Z/Alpha doesn't think about the news
Using Bluesky on a day like today with tumultuous world events feels very much like using Twitter before it went downhill. It's wonderful.
Accurate, fast information that you need to do your job in a pinch. Twitter just can't do that anymore.
Accurate, fast information that you need to do your job in a pinch. Twitter just can't do that anymore.
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Using Bluesky on a day like today with tumultuous world events feels very much like using Twitter before it went downhill. It's wonderful.
Accurate, fast information that you need to do your job in a pinch. Twitter just can't do that anymore.
Accurate, fast information that you need to do your job in a pinch. Twitter just can't do that anymore.
Reposted by Parker Walton
Bluesky is scratching that itch to be able to follow good and reliable information of fast moving international developments that twitter used to. No conspiracy theories or trolls. Quick, efficient, reliable information from reputable journalists. I missed this so much.
December 3, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Bluesky is scratching that itch to be able to follow good and reliable information of fast moving international developments that twitter used to. No conspiracy theories or trolls. Quick, efficient, reliable information from reputable journalists. I missed this so much.
Reposted by Parker Walton
NA has (190 yes) voted to annul. yoon has to accept this based on the constitution.
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
NA has (190 yes) voted to annul. yoon has to accept this based on the constitution.
National Assembly gathering peacefully. Looks like Lee Jae-myung just arrived?
This thing is looking more over by the minute. Military just pacing around.
This thing is looking more over by the minute. Military just pacing around.
December 3, 2024 at 4:00 PM
National Assembly gathering peacefully. Looks like Lee Jae-myung just arrived?
This thing is looking more over by the minute. Military just pacing around.
This thing is looking more over by the minute. Military just pacing around.
Unreal footage. Props to her.
WATCH: Scuffles at South Korea's parliament as special forces take control under martial law
December 3, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Unreal footage. Props to her.
Reposted by Parker Walton
Folks in D.C. ignored his domestic train wreck because he was playing nice with Japan and he sang a song at the White House. That was obviously missing the forest for the trees. His entire foreign policy will be repudiated, and relations with Japan will be radioactive.
December 3, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Folks in D.C. ignored his domestic train wreck because he was playing nice with Japan and he sang a song at the White House. That was obviously missing the forest for the trees. His entire foreign policy will be repudiated, and relations with Japan will be radioactive.
Equally harrowing and moronic.
Basically a bad Chun Doo-hwan impersonation. And why would anyone want to impersonate Chun Doo-hwan?
Basically a bad Chun Doo-hwan impersonation. And why would anyone want to impersonate Chun Doo-hwan?
South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared Martial Law at 10:30 p.m. on a Tuesday. First time in 40 years, last time it was under a dictator.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
South Korea President Yoon declares martial law
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law in an unannounced late night address broadcast live on YTN television.
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Equally harrowing and moronic.
Basically a bad Chun Doo-hwan impersonation. And why would anyone want to impersonate Chun Doo-hwan?
Basically a bad Chun Doo-hwan impersonation. And why would anyone want to impersonate Chun Doo-hwan?
Interesting things are happening on TikTok
December 3, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Interesting things are happening on TikTok
November 26, 2024 at 7:28 PM
At Brookings, INDOPACOM ADM Paparo says Kim Jong-Un is "reforming the North Korean state in a new image" by eschewing unification and portraying South Korea as an "other."
Says growing partnership with Russia, even at the potential expense of good ties with PRC, is evidence of this change.
Says growing partnership with Russia, even at the potential expense of good ties with PRC, is evidence of this change.
November 19, 2024 at 8:50 PM
At Brookings, INDOPACOM ADM Paparo says Kim Jong-Un is "reforming the North Korean state in a new image" by eschewing unification and portraying South Korea as an "other."
Says growing partnership with Russia, even at the potential expense of good ties with PRC, is evidence of this change.
Says growing partnership with Russia, even at the potential expense of good ties with PRC, is evidence of this change.
INDOPACOM ADM Paparo projects confidence at Brookings that #SouthChinaSea tensions will not lead to open US-China conflict.
"Cooler heads will prevail" to prevent unintentional escalation in the Sea vis-a-vis something like a collision between a PLAN and USN vessel, he says.
"Cooler heads will prevail" to prevent unintentional escalation in the Sea vis-a-vis something like a collision between a PLAN and USN vessel, he says.
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
INDOPACOM ADM Paparo projects confidence at Brookings that #SouthChinaSea tensions will not lead to open US-China conflict.
"Cooler heads will prevail" to prevent unintentional escalation in the Sea vis-a-vis something like a collision between a PLAN and USN vessel, he says.
"Cooler heads will prevail" to prevent unintentional escalation in the Sea vis-a-vis something like a collision between a PLAN and USN vessel, he says.
"Kowtow" is kind of crazy though
NZ foreign minister Winston Peters says pursuing a constructive relationship with China does not mean grovelling to Beijing: “I’ve seen far too many people kowtow, not just to China, but to other countries”. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
NZ’s anti-woke warrior Winston Peters is the Trump of the south
Once described as like “the drunk uncle at the wedding”, NZ’s deputy prime minister has proved the wiliest political survivor in the Pacific.
www.smh.com.au
November 16, 2024 at 8:34 AM
"Kowtow" is kind of crazy though
A good and timely piece by the fine journos at WaPo.
My question--why not mention Seoul's perspective here? Kim Jong-un has changed since 2018/19, sure, but so has the South Korean government! Different ballgame between Yoon and Moon.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
My question--why not mention Seoul's perspective here? Kim Jong-un has changed since 2018/19, sure, but so has the South Korean government! Different ballgame between Yoon and Moon.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has never been more brazen — or in demand
Donald Trump says the North Korean leader ‘misses him.’ But Kim Jong Un has a new ally now in Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and that’s emboldening him like never before.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:26 AM
A good and timely piece by the fine journos at WaPo.
My question--why not mention Seoul's perspective here? Kim Jong-un has changed since 2018/19, sure, but so has the South Korean government! Different ballgame between Yoon and Moon.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
My question--why not mention Seoul's perspective here? Kim Jong-un has changed since 2018/19, sure, but so has the South Korean government! Different ballgame between Yoon and Moon.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Reposted by Parker Walton
SCOOP: T-Mobile was also hacked in wide-ranging Chinese infiltration of U.S. and international telecommunications firms. Officials are still struggling to understand full scope of damaging espionage operation. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | T-Mobile Hacked in Massive Chinese Breach of Telecom Networks
The carrier joins growing list of known victims of the major Chinese spying operation.
www.wsj.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:13 AM
SCOOP: T-Mobile was also hacked in wide-ranging Chinese infiltration of U.S. and international telecommunications firms. Officials are still struggling to understand full scope of damaging espionage operation. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...