A View from China
The Russia-India-China (RIC) triangle serves China’s interests by assuaging Russian alarm about asymmetry in the Sino-Russian dyad and also Indian fears of Russia tilting fully to China. Chinese […]
Gilbert Rozman
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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, […]
China Cleaves Northeast Asia in Two, 2013-2016
What was the meaning of Xi Jinping’s Sunnylands offer to Barack Obama in 2013? It revealed far more than many recognized. Xi called for a “new model of […]
Taking Stock: The Asan Forum at Age Ten
In the summer of 2013 a new, online journal began, based in Seoul, edited from Washington, DC, and dedicated to the study of international relations in the Indo-Pacific, […]
20 Ways China Is Losing the Ukraine War
In the spring of 2022 after the contours of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine had become clear, the impact on China also became apparent. Altogether, this […]
A US perspective
The undisputed evaluation of the summit is that it was a bilateral success. US media and think tanks alike acknowledged that each side gave the other enough to […]
The Quad: Contrasting Chinese and US Perceptions
For Washington, the Quad is the heir to what Obama called the “pivot to Asia,” the crux of what Trump accepted from Abe as the “Free and Open […]
Introduction
Joe Biden’s week in Europe in June was groundbreaking in its appeal to the G7, NATO, and the EU to refocus on the looming threat from China while […]
China’s Strategies toward South Korea, Japan, and Australia in the Biden Era
As the Biden administration eyes ways to strengthen US alliances, China is weighing methods to drive a wedge between the US and its principal allies in the Indo-Pacific […]
Challenges to Biden’s pursuit of trilateralism
Trilateralism is the term used for US-Japan-ROK close strategic cooperation and understanding. For Tokyo and Seoul, trilateralism requires a fundamental reconceptualization of both national interests and national identities […]