Fumio Kishida last month became the first postwar Japanese prime minister to visit a war zone, traveling to Kyiv to denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “disgrace that undermines the foundations of the international legal order.” Last week Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York City, where she told the 91 Institute that “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call to us all. . . Authoritarianism does not cease in its belligerence against democracy.”
These foreign heads of government understand what some of America’s leaders have failed to grasp: The fate of Asia is directly connected to the security of Europe.