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March 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2016)

Whereas relations with Japan remained a preoccupation throughout 2015, the December 28 agreement on the “comfort women” issue left more room for attention in 2016 to turn in […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Kaesong Industrial Complex, THAAD
February 22, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2016)

At the end of 2015 and the start of 2016, Chinese journal articles were assessing the foreign policy of South Korea to North Korea and Japan in fast-changing […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Japanese expansion, Maritime Silk Road, North Korean nuclear program, US containment
February 1, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2016)

The mood in Japan was unexpectedly hopeful as 2015 drew to an end and a new year began. Nervousness prevalent through much of 2015 had dissipated. Confident leadership, […]

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Japan, National security, Non-military activity, Shuttle diplomacy
January 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2016)

The APEC and EAS Summits in November On November 24, Kyunghyang Shinmun carried an article by Shin Ju-baek, regretting that the successes in multilateral diplomacy were hardly noticed […]

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December "Comfort Women" deal, Five-party cooperation, multilateralism, North Korea nuclear issue, Regionalism
January 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2016)

The message in Russian media of late 2015 was pessimism about economic ties to China, but reluctance to blame the Chinese. Little is said about Russia’s relations in […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Chinese diaspora, Geopolitics, National identity, Regionalism, Yellow Peril
December 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2015)

No indications were found in Chinese publications of realist thinking about how to resolve security challenges such as the threatening North Korean military build-up or the increasingly confrontational […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Asian values, CJK summit, East Asian Community, Economic Relations, One Belt One Road, One Road", Regionalism
December 3, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (December 2015)

The September 28 Yomiuri Shimbun argued that anti-Americanism is the crux of the opposition to the new law on collective self-defense. Reviewing a book by Miura Ruri (juxtaposing […]

Editorial Staff

Internationalism, Japan-US alliance, National security, ROK-Sino Relations
November 23, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2015)

The first half of the fall was a trying period for South Korean diplomacy, which the conservative and progressive media viewed differently. There was a persistent sense of […]

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National security, Park-Obama Summit, Regionalism, Reunification diplomacy, ROK-Sino Relations, ROK-US relations
November 17, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2015)

Iurii Belobrov in the November Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn’ argued that Russia and China each on its own cannot match the US strategy to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

China, Eurasia, National security, One Belt One Road, Regionalism
October 20, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2015)

Li Jiacheng and Li Ang in the August Taipingyang Xuebao analyzed security relations between Japan and India. Viewing the two countries having a shared dream of being great […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

ASEAN, Indo-Japanese relations, National security, One Belt One Road, Regionalism, South China Sea