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November 21, 2025 Country Reports · South Korea

Country Report: South Korea (Nov 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 […]

Suhyeon Kim

APEC Summit 2025, Japan politics, Korea-China relations, ROK-US Alliance

November 21, 2025 China · Country Reports

Country Report: China (Nov 2025)

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. […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Country Reports

November - December 2025

Country Report: South Korea (Nov 2025)

Country Report: China (Nov 2025)

Country Report: South Korea (Nov 2025)

Country Report: China (Nov 2025)

Looking Back on The Asan Forum, 2013-25, as Editor and Author

Cold War in Asia? China, Russia, and Asian Security

Where Does Japan Fit in China’s “New Type of Great Power Relations?”

Chinese Economic Coercion during the THAAD Dispute

Xi Jinping’s Quest for a Sinocentric Asia, 2013–2024