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December 30, 2020 Special Forum
America’s Indo-Pacific challenge

This article has been updated on February 4. Competing with China is the foremost external policy challenge for the new US administration of President Joe Biden. More precisely, […]

Rory Medcalf

ASEAN, COVID-19, free and open Indo-Pacific, US-China rivalry
December 28, 2020 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2020)

In the fall of 2020, Chinese analysts assessed US and Japanese policies in light of recent anti-globalization trends and made predictions about the United States’ near-term relations with […]

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

ASEAN, COVID-19, CPTPP, RCEP, trilateralism, US-China rivalry
December 10, 2020 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (November 2020)

The late fall of 2020 was eventful for Japanese foreign relations because it meant the start of a new relationship with a US president—this time with a new […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN, free and open Indo-Pacific, Hong Kong, RCEP, Senkakus, South China Sea, Tokyo Olympics, TPP, US-China rivalry
December 10, 2020 Open Forum
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 […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, free and open Indo-Pacific, Korean War, SCO, strategic patience, the Quad, US-China rivalry
December 2, 2020 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (November 2020)

Sino-US relations were foremost on Russian observers’ minds in the autumn of 2020, both before and after Joe Biden’s election victory. Anti-Chinese sentiments in the post-Soviet space drew […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Arctic Council, free and open Indo-Pacific, Hindu nationalism, Joe Biden, Sinophobia, Tibet, turn to the East, US-China rivalry, Xinjiang
November 2, 2020 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2020)

In the fall of 2020, Chinese analysts assessed the likely impact on Sino–US relations of the US presidential election and praised the effectiveness of China’s pandemic-era foreign policy. […]

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

"Belt and Road" Initiative, COVID-19, Debt trap, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, US presidential election, US-China rivalry, US-ROK alliance
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