In early March 2021, Admiral Philip S. Davidson, then commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, sent shock waves in the U.S., Japan, and across the world by telling a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that China could invade Taiwan in the next six years.
On October 21, 2025, Sanae Takaichi, President of the Liberal Democratic Party, was elected as the 104th Prime Minister of Japan in the prime ministerial nomination elections held by both houses of the Diet, becoming the first female prime minister in Japan's constitutional history.