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PM Ishiba had resignation on Sunday. PM Ishiba will stay until the next person be elected in early october. There's two most likely challengers are Sanae Takaichi and Shinjiro Koiizumi . PM Ishiba said "Now that negotiations on US tariff measures have reached a conclusion, I believe this is the appropriate moment" In this article, it says that it will lead to uncertain political in Japan and will face some challenges. I agree that it will lead to uncertain political too because i think PM should be same person for more longer time not just one year.

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Japan: What now after PM Ishiba’s resignation? – DW – 09/08/2025

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As rival candidates prepare to stake their claims, will Japan move to the right, or will the moderates once more be given the reins of government?

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In October 1, Chinese government made a new visa which is called "K-Visa". The aim is to attract to foreigners, innovation and compete to American immigration and policies. However, in china, educated young people are finding difficult to find a jobs and around 19% of people are unemployed. Some people like nationalist and xenophobic sentimetns questioned about attracting skilled foreign workers while young people struggling to find the jobs. This visa is not yet available and chinese government defends the policy because they believe it is a good strategy to attract global talent from other countries while limiting the immigration at the same time. I believe that China should work on giving more job opportunities for young people to reduce the unemploymed rate and limit the migration.

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China’s jobless youth aren’t happy with a plan to attract foreign professionals with a new ‘K-visa’ | CNN

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China commited to reduce gas emission by 7% to 10% by next decade.China is planning to install a wind and solar panel. Also, they are trying to promote pollution free vehicles to reduce the gas emission. Some people think that peak of pollution will be until 2030 while others think peak of pollution already happened and starting to decline. China started to reduce gas emission late than other countreis but china build wind and solar capacity which has a lot of giggawatts which is five times what US does. China's new goal is to increase it to 3,600 to make a clean energy.

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China commits to cutting up to 10% of its climate pollution, short of the goal other countries sought of it | CNN

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The goal, announced via video by Chinese President Xi Jinping, falls far short of the 30% cuts the Biden administration had been pressing for.

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In octover 5th, anti-immigration demonstrators gathered and marched outside the city hall to protest that there are too much immigrants. There were around 75 people marching towards the office to protest about 2 hotels in the city that is used for migrants house. Some people hold the flag that says "enough is enough stop the boats". Some people says that british people are suffering. They can't get a doctor appointment because there are too many migrants and they argue that they are paying taxes. Some people also says that they are going in a wrong way. They have a right to protest but the speaker thinks that it is not right to protest towards office because officer is not related to this problem and have no role in making decisions about assylum seekers.

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Anti-migration protesters in Gloucester target council offices

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A protest against immigration was met by a counter protest at Gloucester’s Shire Hall on Sunday.

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Spain is choosing a different approach about African migration while other countries like US,UK France and Germany are trying not to have migrants for Africa. Spanish government wants to build closer ties through trade,education and culture. Spain is createing a safe and legal ways for Africans migrants so they can come and work and suppot. For example, Spain is creating training programs and short-term jobs in farming. Prime Minister beleives that accepting migrants can help Spain's economy. This plan also focuses on suppporting education, democracy, women's rights and not having racism which also helps African organizations.

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Spain is kicking against the prevailing political mood among Western nations when it comes to migration and policies regarding the African continent.

At a time when the US, the UK, France and Germany are all cutting back their development aid budgets, Madrid remains committed to continued expansion, albeit from a lower starting point.

This week, the Spanish capital has been hosting an African Union-backed "world conference on people of African descent". AfroMadrid2025 will discuss restorative justice and the creation of a new development fund.

It is just the latest sign of how Spain's socialist-led government is seeking to deepen and diversify its engagement with the continent and near neighbour that lies just a few kilometres to the south, across the Straits of Gibraltar.

In July Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares launched a new advisory council of prominent intellectual, diplomatic and cultural figures, more than half of them African, to monitor the delivery of the detailed Spain-Africa strategy that his government published at the end of last year.

New embassies south of the Sahara, and partnerships in business and education are planned.

The contrast between Spain's approach and that of others in the West is not just in spending but in tone and mindset - and nowhere more so than in dealing with migration.

Similar to elsewhere in Europe, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is looking for ways to contain the influx of irregular arrivals.

Like other centre-left and centre-right leaders, he finds himself facing an electoral challenge from the radical right, largely driven by some voters' concern over migration, with the hardline Vox party well established in parliament and routinely ranking third in opinion polls.

In July, extra security forces had to be deployed against racist gangs roaming the streets of Torre Pacheco, in Murcia region - where many Africans work in the booming horticultural sector - after three Moroccans were accused of beating a pensioner.

While the opposition conservative People's Party remains favourable to some immigration, but for cultural reasons wants to prioritise Latin Americans rather than Africans, Vox has been more radical.

Responding to the Murcia incident Vox called for a crackdown on immigrants taking up less skilled jobs. The message largely targeted Africans working in fruit and vegetable production, now so crucial to the southern Spanish economy.

But for the government the migration presents challenges that are as much practical as political.

Thousands try to make the crossing to the Canary Islands on packed wooden boats

More than 45,000 people made the perilous sea crossing from Africa's west coast to the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands last year. Estimates of those who died while making the attempt range between 1,400 and a staggering 10,460.

Others make the shorter journey across the Gibraltar Straits or the Mediterranean to land on Andalusian beaches or try to scramble over the border fences of Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish enclave towns on the North African coast.

The Spanish administration has to accommodate new arrivals, process their claims and manage their absorption into wider society, whether temporary or more long-lasting.

However, in language markedly different from the hostile messaging that emanates from many European capitals, the Sanchez government openly acknowledges the hard economic realities on the ground in West Africa that push people to risk their lives in the effort to reach Europe.

And it is trying to move beyond simply saying "no" to new arrivals. Instead, it is developing creative alternatives, with a promise to foster movements of people that are safe, orderly and regular and "mutually beneficial".

On his trip to Mauritania last year, Sanchez stressed the contribution that migrants make to the Spanish economy.

"For us, the migratory phenomenon is not only a question of moral principles, solidarity and dignity, but also one of rationality," the prime minister said.

The Spanish government funds training schemes for unemployed youth in countries such as Senegal, especially for irregular migrants who have been sent back, to help them develop viable new livelihoods back home.

And it has expanded a "circular migration" programme that gives West Africans short-term visas to come to Spain for limited periods of seasonal work, mainly in agriculture, and then return.

These issues were at the heart of the agenda when Sanchez visited Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania in August last year.

A circular migration agreement with the former had been in place since 2021, but similar accords with the Mauritanian and Gambian governments have since followed.

The underlying case for this singular approach was set out in detail in the foreign ministry's Spain-Africa strategy. This argued that Europe and Africa "form part of the same geopolitical space".

But the management of migration is only one motive for the Spanish decision to place emphasis on building relations with Africa - and indeed support a much broader related social-cultural agenda.

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (R) met Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (L) in Madrid last year

The fundamental premise underlying Madrid's outreach is that Spain, as the European country closest to the continent, has an essential self interest in Africa's progress towards inclusive and sustainable development, and peace and security.

That basic rationale might seem obvious.

Yet of course history had taken Spain down a quite different path.

Other than a few Maghreb footholds and a small tropical outpost - today's independent Equatorial Guinea - its colonial expansion in the 16th and 17th Centuries had mainly been directed across the Atlantic.

And over recent decades, European affairs and the Middle East had tended to dominate Madrid's foreign policy priorities, while the main beneficiaries of its development support were the countries of its vast former empire in Central and South America.

However, the past few years have seen the Sanchez government preside over a fundamental broadening of outlook.

Barely had Albares been installed as foreign minister in July 2021 than he launched a restructuring of his department, in part to strengthen its engagement not only with Latin America but also with the Sahel and North Africa.

Confirmation of the wider geographical emphasis came with a development co-operation plan for 2024-27, which for the first time, designated West Africa, including the Sahel, as one of three regions prioritised for assistance, alongside Central and South America.

Spain's Africa strategy lays heavy emphasis not just on economic sectors such as infrastructure, digitalisation and energy transition but also particularly on education and youth employment.

The cultural dimension includes not only promotion of the Spanish language, with an expanded presence of the Cervantes Institute, but also programmes to help the mobility of academic teachers and researchers.

Security co-operation, action on climate change, women's empowerment and an expanded diplomatic presence are unsurprising components in today's environment.

However, the strategy also lays very public stress it places on supporting democratic ideas, the African Union and, in particular, the West African regional organisation Ecowas.

This will be welcome public encouragement for the latter, which is currently under severe pressure after seeing its 50th anniversary year marred by the walk-out of the Sahelian states - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - whose ruling military juntas have refused to comply with its protocol on democracy and good governance.

Meanwhile, in a message targeted as much at Madrid's domestic audience as its sub-Saharan partners, the foreign ministry said "supporting the African diaspora and the fight against racism and xenophobia are also key priorities".

Fine words of course are only a first step. But in today's sour international climate such language really does stand out.
Paul Melly is a consulting fellow with the Africa Programme at Chatham House in London.
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