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May 21, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2018)

From March to May, South Korean news editorials continued to focus on inter-Korean and US-Korean relations, albeit with a new player in the picture: China. On China, analysts […]

Eun A Jo

CVID, inter-Korean summit, John Bolton, Kim-Xi summit, Libya model, Max Thunder, Trump-Kim summit
April 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2018)

In early 2018, Chinese analysts assessed the Trump administration’s tariff policies and considered various countries’ policies toward North Korea. They considered the Trump administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, China’s South […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

BRI, Indo-Pacific strategy, maximum pressure, TPP, US-China trade war
March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2018 with Focus on Korea)

Not only was Abe battered by a domestic scandal, his foreign policy was rocked by diplomacy, history, and trade shocks. The North Korean presence at the Winter Olympics […]

Editorial Staff

“smile diplomacy”, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Pyeongchang Olympics, Six-Party Talks, Yasukuni
March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2018)

Three themes dominated the coverage in Russian analyses of the Asia-Pacific region: 1) China’s shift toward authoritarianism and tensions in the West over perceived Chinese protectionism; 2) aspects […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, Greater Eurasia, Russian Far East, Southern Kuril Islands, Trump-Kim summit, Xi Jinping
March 14, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2018)

Understandably, Japanese have been preoccupied with the Korean Peninsula since the start of 2018. In this Country Report, we cover issues not central to the serious matters over […]

Editorial Staff

“Year of China”, BRI, CPTPP, free and open Indo-Pacific, TPP-11
March 8, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2018)

In February and March 2018, South Korean news editorials focused on developments in US-South Korean relations and inter-Korean relations before, during, and after the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. […]

Eun A Jo

Kim Jong-chul, Kim Yo-jung, Mike Pence, North-South talks, Pyeongchang Olympics, trade war, Victor Cha
February 20, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2018)

In late 2017 to early 2018, Chinese analysts explored Modi’s Indian Ocean policy and evaluated the construction of the Indo-Pacific as a region and its implications for quadrilateral […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

"common security", free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, proactive pacifism, Project Mausam, Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, THAAD
February 2, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2018)

From November 2017 to January 2018, South Korean news editorials discussed North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, Hwaseong-15, and covered bilateral dynamics: South Korea-China relations following […]

Eun A Jo

comfort women, freeze-for-freeze, Hwaseong 15, Moon-Xi summit, Pyeongchang Olympics, THAAD
January 29, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2018)

The late fall and early winter was a quiet period for Russian diplomacy in Asia and analysis after the busier period from September to mid-November. Optimism about Sino-Russian […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, EEF, Russian Far East, Silk Road, THAAD, Trans-Siberian Railways
January 4, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (December 2017)

In late 2017, a succession of galvanizing themes dominated media coverage in Japan. At the beginning of November and again in mid-December, the media focused on Moon Jae-in’s […]

Editorial Staff

North Korea, Russiagate, THAAD, TPP, Trump-Xi Summit, US-Japan FTA, US-ROK alliance