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October 4, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2013)

Chinese writings on international relations in the Asia-Pacific region continue to be the most prolific and informative in comparison to Japanese, Korean, and Russian writings. Despite censorship and […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Pang Zengjun)

Bipolarity, economic regionalims, equal dialogue with US, India, Japan’s threat, North Korean buffer, Park Geun-hye, SCO, seapower, Shinzo Abe, Sino-Russian alliance
September 16, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2013)

Russia’s thirst for multipolarity on terms that would not require reconsideration of its assumptions about countries active in East Asia was on vivid display through the summer. Hopes […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, China alliance, Cold war school, Collective system of security, Evgenyi Bazhanov, Gleb Ivashentsov, Multipolarity, Putin
September 13, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2013)

In a speech delivered on the sixty-eighth anniversary of Liberation Day, Park Geun-hye said, “Japanese politicians need to show courageous leadership to heal wounds from the past to […]

Editorial Staff

dependency on China, inter-Korean trust process, Merkel, mutual abandonment, Park Geun-hye, Shinzo Abe, Xi Jinping, Yasukuni Shrine
September 1, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (September 2013)

Coverage of Abe Shinzo in the Japanese media has centered on three familiar themes and on one that has gone mostly unnoticed abroad. The July 21 Upper House […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Iwaki Shigeyuki*)

Apology diplomacy, Chinese power struggle, PLA, virtuous history, Xi Jinping
July 19, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: China (July 2013)

Country Report: China (with the assistance of Pang Zengjun) China’s newspapers, especially Global Times in its English edition, attracted increased attention in the first half of 2013 for […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Pang Zengjun)

Sino-Indian Relations, Sino-Japanese Relations, Sino-Russian Relations, Sinocentrism, Xi-Obama Summit, Xi-Park Summit
July 19, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (July 2013)

Country Report: Japan (with the assistance of Iwaki Shigeyuki) After Prime Minister Abe’s visit in February to the United States, Japanese sources have flitted from one problem to […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Iwaki Shigeyuki*)

Crisis of August 2012, Japan-China Relations, Japan-South Korean Relations, Regionalism, Revisionism, Xi-Obama Summit, Xi-Park Summit
July 19, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (July 2013)

Country Report: Russia (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova) This is an ideal time for a debate about the balance of Russian foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region. […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

India, Multipolarity, North Korea, Obama-Putin Summit, Sino-Russian Relations, Southeast Asia, Xi-Obama Summit
July 19, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2013)

Country Report: South Korea (prepared by Han Minjeong) The single event of most far-reaching significance for the Korean media was the visit of President Park Geun-hye to Beijing. […]

Editorial Staff

Denuclearization, New Model of Great Power Politics, Obama-Xi Summit, Park-Xi Summit, Sino-US Relations