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March 25, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2015)

An article by Gleb A. Ivashentsov attacks US moves in the Indian Ocean, while siding completely with China and suggesting that its plans fully meet Russia’s aspirations. In […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Sino-Russian Relations
March 18, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2015)

Assessments of the Park administration’s foreign policy Marking the third year of the Park administration, criticism of her foreign policy grew more intense. On March 2, a Chosun […]

Editorial Staff

Asia-Pacific alliance, TPP, Wendy Sherman
March 2, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2015)

South Korea preoccupied Japanese media more than China, recognized as a threat, North Korea, posing an ever greater threat, and Russia, which was transfixing the media elsewhere. Conservatives […]

Editorial Staff

historical revisionism, Murayama Statement, Yasukuni Shrine
February 27, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2015)

An article by Zhong Feiteng in Waijiao pinglun describes China’s new Asian strategy. It observes that Europe has been the geopolitical center and Asia the periphery, and Great […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

ASEAN, Cool Japan, Indo-Pacific strategy, Korean wave, Maritime Silk Road, Peaceful Development, Ukraine
January 27, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2015)

Russian publications have had to react to an unexpectedly difficult environment at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015. Counting on increasing polarization in the Asia-Pacific […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRICS, FTAAP, India, Look East policy, Maritime Silk Road, TPP
January 12, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2015)

Deepening confrontation between China-North Korea-Russia on one side and South Korea-the United States-Japan on the other was the center of discussion over the last two months. As the […]

Editorial Staff

Eurasia Initiative, human rights, Korean reunification, Revisionism, sanctions, Yasukuni Shrine
December 30, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2014)

The prevailing Chinese narrative is zero-sum, blaming Japan unsparingly and the United States, if in a less vitriolic manner, for regional fragmentation when a path to integration is […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Japanese containment, New Cold War, Sino-ROK alliance, US-ROK alliance
December 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (December 2014)

As Abe stumbled in the fall of 2014, his defenders grew more aggressive. Initiatives to Russia, North Korea, and China faced one sort of problem or another. Even […]

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AIIB, history issues, Japanese Abductees, normal state, Ukraine
November 21, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2014)

Russian articles on Russia’s “turn to the East” are full of confidence, concentrate on the big picture, and constantly repeat assumptions hardened over the previous half-year. Rather than […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRICS, India, international relations framework, Russo-Japanese relations, Southeast Asia, turn to the East
November 10, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2014)

South Korean newspapers have recently focused on parallels in international relations. As they follow developments in Ukraine and Hong Kong and keep their gaze on North Korea, they […]

Editorial Staff

Agreed Framework, Civilizations, Hong Kong, Regionalism, reorganization of Asia, THAAD, Ukraine