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August 24, 2016 Open Forum
The Undercurrent of Sino-Vietnamese Relations

Since 2010, the South China Sea disputes have emerged as the most acute issue in the Sino-Vietnamese relationship. Bilateral relations have suffered greatly as China expands its land […]

Yun Sun

Chinese Communist Party, Communist Party of Vietnam, economic reforms, liberalization, political reforms
August 12, 2016 Open Forum
Northeast Asia’s Space Launch Nationalism

*The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and do not represent official policies of the U.S. Navy or the U.S. Department of Defense. […]

James Clay Moltz

anti-satellite weapons test, geostationary orbit, liquid-fuel rocket, low-Earth orbit, space launch capability, UN Convention on the Registration of Space Objects, UN Outer Space Treaty
August 3, 2016 Open Forum
Russia’s Korean Policy since 2012: New Hopes, Achievements, and Disappointments

This article focuses on Russia’s Korean policy since 2012. That year was very important: in North Korea, Kim Jong-un had just come to power at the end of […]

Serghei Golunov

Gaeseong Park, Rajin-Khasan, Resolution 2270, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, THAAD, USSR
June 24, 2016 Open Forum
The Pivot vs. the “Progressives”

For more than a decade the two most divisive issues in East Asia have been the gap over how to deal with: 1) the Sino-US relationship and which […]

Gilbert Rozman

Asia for the Asians, China first, G2, hegemonism, Kurt Campbell, Six-Party Talks, Sunshine Policy
June 22, 2016 Open Forum
China and the Evolving World Order: A Stakeholder or a Revolutionary Power?

China’s rapid rise has raised the question if China is a stakeholder or a dissatisfied revolutionary power to advance its alternative visions. This article argues that although China […]

Suisheng Zhao

AIIB, Bretton Woods, Institution-building, OBOR, Reformist, Revisionist, sovereignty, Tianxia
June 3, 2016 Open Forum
Chinese Interpretations of Japan and Its Role in the Indo-Pacific Region in 2016

In April, Kishida Fumio made the first official visit by a Japanese foreign minister to China in more than four years. Sino–Japanese relations had deteriorated over the Senkaku/Diaoyu […]

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

Article 9, China threat theory, Expansionist history, India-Japan relations, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, proactive pacifism, Quadrilateral initiative, South China Sea, UNCLOS
May 27, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 4, No. 3)

In April and May 2016, the extension and reinforcement of the international system drew repeated attention in Washington: bringing the Europeans into Asian security, solidifying cohesion with Japan […]

Editorial Staff

EEU, Japan-US relations, OBOR, SREB
May 10, 2016 Open Forum
Synopsis of the Asan Plenum, “The New Normal,” April 26-27, 2016

[Asan Plenum 2016 Agenda] “North Korea Out of Control, China Overextended, the United States Arousing Doubts, South Korea Sobering Up” The 2016 Asan Plenum put “gloom and doom” […]

Editorial Staff

Donald Trump, New Normal, Nuclear insecurity, Resolution 2270, SIno-US talks, TPP
April 19, 2016 Open Forum
Russia-Southeast Asia Relations: In China’s Shadow?

From May 19-20, the leaders of Southeast Asia nations will convene for the Russia-ASEAN summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of […]

Vitaly Kozyrev

APEC, EAS, EEU, regional security architecture, Russian Far East
April 15, 2016 Open Forum
Can’t Buy Me Soft Power (with Hard Power): China’s Appeal to South Koreans

In January 2016, Twice, a multinational girls pop group of South Korea, was at the center of controversy. Chou Tzu-yu, one of the members from Taiwan appeared on […]

Kim Jiyoon*

American culture, Confucius Institutes, Global leadership, Liberal democracy, Smart power, Twice