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Sanae Takaichi breaks the ‘glass ceiling’ in Japanese politics by becoming the nation’s first female Prime Minister. However, don’t expect radical reforms from her government as she is a far-right conservative & ultranationalist: opposes same-sex marriage, allowing female accession to the Chrysanthemum throne, advocates for stricter immigration policies, media regulation and historical negationism that downplays Japanese war crimes in WWII.

On the other hand, Taiwan and the Philippines would find a friend in her as she is a China hawk, although she is of the view that the pacifist provisions of Japan’s constitution should be changed. It remains to be seen how long she would be able to stay in office.

On the murder of Charlie Kirk

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It’s basic for any decent human being, Christian or otherwise, to feel some empathy for victims of violent crime like Charlie Kirk. To say that one doesn’t agree with his views while expressing such empathy is also a given.

However, we should not gloss over what Charlie Kirk stood for and did: contempt for immigrants, vilification of LGBTQ+, ridiculing the poor. His campus debates and speaking engagements weren’t a spectacle of enlightenment nor learning, he used it as an opportunity to prey on the vulnerabilities of students, humiliation was his style instead of persuasion. He became a millionaire by profiting off of his politics and ideology of hatred, marginalization, division and fear.

If your measure of what being a ‘Christian’ is aligns or fits with being like Charlie Kirk then you need some serious discernment and deep reflection.