Political hot issues mainly include: the Syrian civil war that continues to ferment, the change of leaders of various countries (the United States, Japan, South Korea and China), maritime disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, especially the Diaoyu Islands dispute between China and Japan, the rise of Japanese right-wing forces, the Korean Peninsula crisis triggered by the Korean-American military exercise, and the third nuclear test of North Korea. There are also global weather problems.