November - December 2025
Through the early fall of 2025, the Lee Jae-myung administration confronted multiple simultaneous pressures: managing an increasingly transactional US alliance under President Trump’s second term, navigating the deepening […]
Two tendencies in 2025 stood out in Chinese writings on Northeast Asia: gaining a further edge on Russia and temporarily improving relations somewhat with Japan and South Korea. […]
The late summer of 2025 was not a hopeful time for Japan. Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru announced his resignation, and uncertainty persisted over which LDP politician would be […]
Country Report: Russia History issues pervaded summertime Russian coverage of East Asia, including views of WWII and the Korean War. They arose in discussions of the September 3 […]
The summer of 2025 marked a pivotal juncture for South Korea’s foreign policy, as shifting great-power dynamics and intensifying bloc rivalries tested Seoul’s diplomatic agility. Alliance management with […]
With Trump cutting trade deals, Xi Jinping seeking to rally states behind his notion of globalization, the EU and NATO steeling themselves to support Ukraine more fully, and […]
Chinese articles on geopolitics and economics in great power and Asian relations are far more numerous than Russian, Japanese, and Korean articles. Rather than select a wide-ranging sample, […]
The inauguration of President Lee Jae-myung comes at a precarious moment for South Korea, with tariff disputes and seismic shifts in foreign policy threatening to overshadow any honeymoon […]
From a zenith of optimism in 2023–24, Japan fell into a nadir of pessimism by mid-spring 2025. Troubles loomed in multiple directions. The special Japan–US relationship, earlier strengthened […]
One important theme in Chinese publications of 2024 and early 2025 is the triangular ties among China, the US, and Russia in the context of a rapidly transforming […]