Country Report: China (October 2023)
In mid-2023, Chinese analysts evaluated the role of US minilateralism in US Indo-Pacific policy, most notably the Quad and AUKUS, arguing that it was likely to produce systemic […]
Country Reports
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Japan
Country Report: Japan (September 2023)
Despite the supposed dog days of August, the summer news from Japan proved quite riveting. In July and August, alarm only heightened over the challenging security environment Japan […]
Russia
Country Report: Russia (September 2023)
Russian writings on Asia in the late summer of 2023 ranged from encomiums to China’s success to alarm about its revanchism. Some struggle with uncertainty about its economic […]
ASAN PLENUM 2019
OPEN FORUM
Visualizing Affective Democracy: Learning Community in China and Taiwan through Images of Foreigners
In the past few years, cross-strait relations have been in the news again, especially in terms of China’s hard power reunification strategy and its sharp power influence operations. […]
William A. Callahan
What Price Stability? Anthony Albanese’s Australia-China Accord
In October 2023, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced he would visit China from November 4-7 to mark the 50th anniversary of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s visit […]
John Fitzgerald
National Commentaries
“The Impact of the Camp David Trilateral”
A Perspective from the United States
The first ever stand-alone leader-level summit at Camp David between President Biden, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, and President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea, marks the latest […]
Clint Work
A Perspective from Japan
A Historic Trilateral Step in a Journey of Many Kilometers? Japan’s political leaders and strategic thinkers welcome significant advancement in trilateral strategic cooperation with the US and ROK, […]
Akimoto Satohiro
A Perspective from China and Russia
Three commentaries matter most in the aftermath of August’s Camp David trilateral summit of the United States, Japan, and South Korea. What the three participants say, of course, […]
Gilbert Rozman