Country Report: South Korea (September 2020)
In the summer of 2020 foreign policy was largely on hold. The pandemic effect, the wait for US elections, and the relative caution shown by North Korea unwilling […]
Country Reports
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Japan
Country Report: Japan (October 2020)
With Abe Shinzo’s decision to resign for health reasons at the end of August, discussion turned quickly to his legacy, including in international relations. One position was that […]
Russia
Country Report: Russia (September 2020)
Russians faced at least five Indo-Pacific regional challenges in the late summer of 2020, most of which were not being discussed forthrightly. No doubt the one looming in […]
ASAN PLENUM 2019
OPEN FORUM
Kazakhstan in Sino-Russian Relations: Cooperation and Competition between the EEU and BRI
On the sidelines of the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow on September 12, 2020, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart, […]
Michael Clarke
Washington Insights, Vol. 8, No. 5
Leadership change was on peoples’ minds in the late summer and early fall of 2020. What would a Biden administration do differently from Trump in the Indo-Pacific region? […]
Editorial Staff
National Commentaries
Kazakhstan’s Ambiguous Position towards the Uyghur Cultural Genocide in China
There is a cultural genocide ongoing in the Uyghur region of China. As I detail in a recently published book, large swaths of the Uyghur population has been […]
Sean R. Roberts
Mongolia’s Response to China’s New Educational Policy in Inner Mongolia
As Chinese authorities began to introduce the new educational policy in Inner Mongolia, protests have been staged by ethnic Mongolian communities in Chinese northern provinces. The new educational […]
Mendee Jargalsaikhan
Chinese Cultural Policies in Tibet: A Perspective from India
Indians have at least two vantage points from which to view what is happening in Tibet. Large parts of Himalayan India border Tibet, and the perspective from these […]
Swati Chawla