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June 6, 2020 Special Forum
Soft Power and Sharp Power: The View from Australia

Australians of late have been shocked by the unravelling of US soft power globally and China’s offensive use of sharp power targeting their country. At issue is the […]

John Fitzgerald

COVID-19, free and open Indo-Pacific, Sharp power, soft power, the Quad, United Front
June 6, 2020 Special Forum
Hedging in Post-Pandemic Asia: What, How, and Why?

As the US-China rivalry intensifies amid the COVID-19 crisis, more observers have opined that the “hedging” by smaller states—widely interpreted as a “middle position” between being fully aligned […]

Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Balancing, Bandwagoning, COVID-19, free and open Indo-Pacific, hedging, Trans-Pacific Partnership
June 1, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2020)

The spring of 2020 saw a downturn in Sino-Japanese relations, which were now embroiled in the pandemic war of words, with little else on the foreign policy radar. […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Cold War, COVID-19, Northern Territories, Senkaku Islands, Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
May 25, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2020)

One message stood apart in Russian coverage of international relations in the Indo-Pacific in the early spring of 2020: what is the impact of the pandemic on China […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Cold War, COVID-19, Eurasian Economic Union, Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
May 19, 2020 Open Forum
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 […]

Gilbert Rozman

Cold War, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Public diplomacy, Xi Jinping
May 15, 2020 Open Forum
China’s “Wolf Warrior” Diplomacy in the COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19, a black swan event, altered the planned trajectory of China’s domestic politics and its engagement with the rest of the world. The public health crisis from COVID-19 […]

Yun Sun

Boxer Protocol, China International Development Cooperation Agency, China Model, COVID-19, Public diplomacy, World Health Organization
May 9, 2020 Open Forum
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Russo-Chinese Border

The pandemic has already changed the course of world history, and its future consequences, such as how and when it finishes, remain unknown to us amidst a dynamic […]

Ivan Zuenko

China-Russia relations, COVID-19, Eurasian Economic Union, New Silk Road, turn to the East
May 4, 2020 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 8, No. 2

Unlike previous Washington Insights based on attendance at panels and person-to-person contacts, this one draws from a mixture of Zoom meetings and articles from Washington-based think tanks. Extracting […]

Editorial Staff

America First, Cold War, COVID-19, Donald Trump, hegemony, Sinocentrism, Xi Jinping
April 22, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2020)

As 2020 began, Chinese authors were busy not only summing up the far-reaching results of 2019 but also putting them in broad analytical perspective. China’s other bilateral relations […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Cold War, community of common destiny, COVID-19, Six-Party Talks, Xi Jinping
April 13, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2020)

Geopolitics were not high on the media’s attention list in the first months of 2020; we need to look back a little to capture the state of the […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Putin summit, COVID-19, GSOMIA, Senkakus, Shinzo Abe, Tokyo Olympics