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October 23, 2019 Open Forum
Synopsis: DC Exchanges on US-ROK Relations

The US-ROK relationship is overshadowing other interests in Washington regarding foreign policy in East Asia. The ongoing US-China trade war may appear more urgent, but in the absence […]

Editorial Staff

“small deal”, free and open Indo-Pacific, GSOMIA, inter-Korean summit, THAAD, Trump-Kim summit, US-China trade war
October 21, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2019)

In the middle of 2019, Chinese experts evaluated the state of South Korea–Japan relations, which deteriorated sharply during the summer of 2019 with the Japanese imposition of export […]

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

Act East Policy, comfort women, community of common destiny, GSOMIA, US-China trade war
October 18, 2019 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 7, No. 5

No topic stirred as much interest in DC think tanks as the US-Japan-South Korean triangle. In the background loomed North Korea, leading to overlapping interest in the Sino-North […]

Editorial Staff

Act East Policy, free and open Indo-Pacific, GSOMIA, New Southern Policy, Trump-Kim summit, US-China trade war, US-ROK alliance
October 16, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2019)

Japanese foreign policy drew increased criticism in the summer of 2019. On the left, there were harsh critiques of Abe’s diplomatic failures with Russia and North Korea (both […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, "Hate Korea”, GSOMIA, INF Treaty, Trump-Kim summit, US-China trade war, US-ROK alliance
October 7, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2019)

August saw a series of missile provocations from North Korea in the midst of growing tension between South Korea and Japan; the hostility against one another reached its […]

Kim Kimberly

GSOMIA, John Bolton, peace economy, Trump-Kim summit, UN General Assembly, US-China trade war, US-ROK alliance
September 30, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2019)

Three themes pervaded Russian writings on East Asia over the summer of 2019 after the G20 summit in Osaka: 1) China—its model, its trade war with the US, […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI summit, China Dream, G20 summit, John Bolton, One State Two Systems, Silk Road, Sino-Soviet relations
September 9, 2019 Open Forum
Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: The political use of WWII history in Russia & China

Under a perfectly blue sky in September 2015, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin strode out to the Gate of Heavenly Peace in the center of Beijing. This was […]

Katie Stallard

Great Patriotic War, political memory, Victory Day, Vladimir Putin, World War II, Xi Jinping
September 3, 2019 National Commentaries
A View from Hong Kong

Both the Chief Executive (CE) of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, and Zhang Xiaoming, the head of the Hong Kong and Macao Office under the Chinese State Council in […]

David Zweig

Basic Law, Occupy Central Movement, One Country Two Systems, Tiananmen, Umbrella Movement
September 3, 2019 National Commentaries
A View from Japan

Amid the improving atmosphere in Japan-China relations, the crisis in Hong Kong has left many Japanese asking how their should country respond. In reaction to the proposed amendment […]

Kurata Toru*

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, Senkaku Islands, Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Yasukuni Shrine
September 2, 2019 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Two months after the G20, Abe Shinzo can look back with satisfaction that, despite failing to secure the “supermajority” that the ruling LDP party would have needed to […]

Ra Mason

"Belt and Road" Initiative, G20, Osaka Summit, Shinzo Abe, US-China trade war