Fumio Kishida has been elected the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party. How will Kishida shape Japan's domestic and foreign policies and face the many challenges ahead?

In the UN Human Rights Council, Chinese and foreign experts and diplomats have criticized the U.S. for severely violating human rights in Afghanistan. Should there be an investigation by the international community into the military operations undertaken by the U.S. government in the name of counterterrorism after the 9/11 attacks?

To find out more, we've invited Victor Gao Zhikai, chair professor at Soochow University; Kay Shimizu, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh; Prof. Klaus Larres from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Harvey Dzodin, senior fellow at the Center for China and Globalization.