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October 8, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2018)

Setting aside the rush of publications on China and North Korea—from Abe’s October visit to China to Japan’s response to plans for a new Trump-Kim summit—this report covers […]

Editorial Staff

AIIB, ARF, BRI, BRICS, comfort women, EEF, free and open Indo-Pacific, Sharp power, the Quad, US-China trade war
October 1, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2018)

More than bilateral relations, the big picture interested Russian writers as the summer drew to a close. The prevalent assumption was that the West is in rapid decline […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, BRICS, EEF, Khasan-Rajin railway, Power of Siberia-2, Russian Far East, Southern Kuriles
September 27, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights Vol. 6, No. 5

The start of the fall brought further confirmation that Trump is driving the agenda, whether by launching trade wars, disheartening allies, or refusing to attend the annual summit […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, Eastern Economic Forum, JSOMIA, New Northern Policy, Quad, SCO, Silk Road
September 4, 2018 Open Forum
Can China Seduce Japan? 14 Reasons for Its Overtures in 2018

As Sino-US relations have deteriorated in 2018, Beijing has looked elsewhere in Asia for closer ties: to the Korean Peninsula, where Kim Jong-un was desperate to improve relations […]

Gilbert Rozman

BRI, Confucius Institutes, South China Sea, trade war, US-Japan alliance
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Diplomacy II

Reviewing the most recent developments in security and military cooperation as well as diplomacy over the Korean Peninsula and the rise of China, this second view of the […]

Tanaka Hitoshi*

HA/DR, Japan-China Maritime and Aerial Communication Mechanism, Singapore Summit, US-Japan alliance
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Security II

Sino-Japan relations, as reported in the mass media over the last several weeks, seem to have positive prospects, accelerated by the fortieth anniversary of the Japan-China Treaty of […]

Yamaguchi Noboru*

“nine-dot line”, BRI, China Dream, FONOPs, South China Sea
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Diplomacy I

Future Prospects for Japan-China Cooperation This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Over these four decades, Japan-China relations have gone through […]

Tanaka Hitoshi*

East China Sea, Japan-China-South Korea trilateral summit, Senkaku Islands, TPP-11, US-DPRK summit, US-Japan alliance
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Security I

The most recent development in Sino-Japanese relations, particularly in the security arena, suggests that bilateral relations have already hit bottom and begun to improve gradually. On June 8 […]

Yamaguchi Noboru*

"Belt and Road" Initiative, East China Sea, HA/DR, PKO, Senkaku Islands, Yasukuni Shrine
August 28, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 6, No. 4

The pace of change amid the perplexity of the Trump administration is proving overwhelming to many in DC, as elsewhere. Alarm about how badly it is handling North […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, Eurasian Economic Community, free and open Indo-Pacific, Greater Eurasia, Quad
August 23, 2018 National Commentaries
An American (Non-Trumpian) Perspective on Asian Integration

With the long-standing failure of multilateral negotiations in the World Trade Organization and the recent US retreat to economic nationalism and “America First,” Asian trade and investment liberalization […]

Claude Barfield

CPTPP, FTAs, Indo-Pacific strategy, RCEP