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September - October 2020
October 23, 2020 National Commentaries
Kazakhstan’s Ambiguous Position towards the Uyghur Cultural Genocide in China

There is a cultural genocide ongoing in the Uyghur region of China. As I detail in a recently published book, large swaths of the Uyghur population has been […]

Sean R. Roberts

counterterrorism, Cultural Genocide, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Uyghur, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang
October 23, 2020 National Commentaries
Mongolia’s Response to China’s New Educational Policy in Inner Mongolia

As Chinese authorities began to introduce the new educational policy in Inner Mongolia, protests have been staged by ethnic Mongolian communities in Chinese northern provinces. The new educational […]

Mendee Jargalsaikhan

"Belt and Road" Initiative, “Save the Mongolian Language”, Battulga Khaltmaa, China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, Dalai Lama, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Xi Jinping
October 23, 2020 National Commentaries
Chinese Cultural Policies in Tibet: A Perspective from India

Indians have at least two vantage points from which to view what is happening in Tibet. Large parts of Himalayan India border Tibet, and the perspective from these […]

Swati Chawla

communism, Dalai Lama, Narendra Modi, One Child Policy, Sinification, Tibet, Xi Jinping
October 19, 2020 Open Forum
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, […]

Michael Clarke

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Economic Community, Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Xinjiang
October 8, 2020 Special Forum
Introduction

In the early autumn of 2020, when Joe Biden was leading decisively in the polls, many in the Indo-Pacific region were reflecting on what his policy would be […]

Gilbert Rozman

Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, US-China rivalry, Xi Jinping, Yoshihide Suga
October 5, 2020 Open Forum
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 […]

James D.J. Brown

Abe Shinzo, Cold War, CPTPP, free and open Indo-Pacific, Quad, Self Defense Forces, Suga Yoshihide, US-China rivalry
September 25, 2020 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (September 2020)

Russians faced at least five Indo-Pacific regional challenges in the late summer of 2020, most of which were not being discussed forthrightly. No doubt the one looming in […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Abe Shinzo, One China policy, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Taiwan, US-China rivalry
September 2, 2020 Country Reports · South Korea
Country Report: South Korea (September 2020)

In the summer of 2020 foreign policy was largely on hold. The pandemic effect, the wait for US elections, and the relative caution shown by North Korea unwilling […]

Sanghwa Hong

OPCON transfer, Paik Sun-yup, Special Measures Agreement, US-China rivalry, Yang Jiechi