The EU and China in 2021: Separate Discourses, Similar or Different Aims?
As the Biden administration seeks common ground across the Atlantic on China policy, it is timely to ask how similar or different are the objectives in the European […]
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Perceptions and Misperceptions between China and South Korea amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
China and South Korea have each done a relatively good job in COVID-19 prevention and control. Active cooperation between the two governments in communications and medical materials improved […]
Washington Insights, Vol. 8, No. 6
The late fall of 2020 saw attention turn to Joe Biden, including his nominees for policy posts in national security and their thinking on the Indo-Pacific region. He […]
Kazakhstan in Sino-Russian Relations: Cooperation and Competition between the EEU and BRI
On the sidelines of the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow on September 12, 2020, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart, […]
Washington Insights, Vol. 8, No. 5
Leadership change was on peoples’ minds in the late summer and early fall of 2020. What would a Biden administration do differently from Trump in the Indo-Pacific region? […]
Weighed in the Balance: Abe’s Legacy of Searching for Supplementary Security Partners
The lives of Japanese diplomats and security planners were simpler in the old days. During the Cold War, Tokyo’s priority was to monitor the activities of Soviet aircraft […]
Washington Insights, Vol. 8, No. 4
In mid-2020, US policy took a decidedly more negative turn toward China, driven by leaders whose foreign policy judgment was highly suspect. While there was bipartisan consensus on […]
Forecasting Synergies in Chinese and Russia Digital Influence Operations
Amid the global pandemic that has wreaked havoc on countries around the world, China and Russia’s digital influence campaigns are converging. Several accounts of China’s information operations have […]
Three Spikes and You Are Out? China-DPRK Relations after the Cold War and the US
Exchanges of visits between Chinese and DPRK leaders and high-level delegations have been relatively rare since the end of the Cold War. However, meetings between leaders saw three […]
The Launch of an Ideological Cold War in 2020: The US Perspective
Today’s US response to China that suggests a cold war mentality: first, blaming problems in the Sino-US relationship, China more generally, and the pandemic’s origin and response on […]