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July 25, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (July 2014)

New Russian articles suggest that South Korea’s foreign policy is more intriguing than previously anticipated. Explaining that there is talk today of forging a new system of global […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Gas deal, global governance, New Cold War, New Silk Road, SCO, Sino-Russian alliance, soft integration, threat from the West, Trustpolitik, Ukraine
July 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2014)

Northeast Asia’s geopolitical tensions have intensified and grown more complicated over the past two months. The Cold War-era legacy of contention between South Korea, the United States, and […]

Editorial Staff

Balanced diplomacy, horizontal and vertical alliance, Kono statement diplomatic record, Park-Xi Summit, serving as a bridge, Xi history speech
June 18, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2014)

Regional Dynamics, the US Pivot, and Maritime Security Shi Jiazhu and Yu Lingling in Guoji guancha, No. 2, 2014 explain the US strategy in shifting the center of […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Central Asia, China’s maritime strategy, Japan-North Korea ties, Japanese militarism, peripheral diplomacy, Southeast Asia, strengthening the SCO, US offensive strategy
June 13, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2014)

The most important event in Japanese foreign policy during this time period was the visit of Barack Obama to Tokyo in late April. Yomiuri shimbun showcased its success […]

Editorial Staff

Japanese Abductees, Southeast Asia Abe-Obama summit, state branding, territorial issues, textbooks, TPP, triangles, US election
June 13, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2014)

With Russia’s attention having been primarily focused on the Ukrainian crisis in the past months, the coverage of Asia in Russian media and academic reports has been even […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

debt forgiveness, Gas deal, sanctions regime, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance
May 9, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2014)

President Barack Obama’s late April visits to Asian countries were assessed in Korean papers as an attempt to make the “pivot” to Asia more sophisticated with special emphasis […]

Editorial Staff

China and Six-Party Talks, Sino-ROK mutual assistance on history issue, Ukraine crisis and North Korea, US-Japan alliance and the pivot
April 30, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2014)

Chinese writings in the past two months reveal a somewhat restrained, but dark, tone about regional security dynamics, especially with regard to China-Japan and China-US relations. The nationalistic […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Central Asia, China-US-ROK triangle, Economic Interdependence, Japan-Taiwan relations, Japan's defense strategy, Korean Peninsula, new type of major power relations, Regional security framework, Taiwan, Ukraine, US threat to DPRK, Vietnam
April 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2014)

February and March 2014 saw Japan much more isolated than at any point since the US occupation, but the shallowness and myopia of Japan’s media coverage stood out […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, international society, Park Geun-hye, public opinion war, reparations, trilateral summit, Ukraine
March 28, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2014)

Russia’s writings on Asia over the past two months included much on Russia’s pivot toward the Asia-Pacific, its relations with Japan, and its approach toward the Korean Peninsula. […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

debate on DPRK, economic integration, priority of Southeast Asia, Russia's pivot, Russian Far East development and security, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia US World domination, Ukraine
March 7, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2014)

Two themes have been in the forefront in Korean media coverage of international relations in the region: diplomacy related to reunification and ROK-Japan relations. The former was sparked […]

Editorial Staff

Dokdo /Takeshima, Germany, Germany Reunification, reunions, textbooks, two-Korea policy, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights