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June 21, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2017)

In the spring of 2017, Chinese experts criticized China’s North Korea policy, assessed the implications of Moon Jae-in’s election, and evaluated South Korea’s middle-power diplomacy in the G20. […]

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

BRI, BRICS, Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, G20, Middle Power Diplomacy, MIKTA, South China Sea, THAAD
June 2, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2017)

Coverage of Russia in East Asia concentrated on the Belt and Road Initiative forum in mid-May with some attention given to the Korean Peninsula, as a new president […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, BRI Forum, BRIC, EEU, OBOR, Russian Far East, SCO, SREB
May 29, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2017)

Park Geun-hye was removed from office on March 10 as the Constitutional Court endorsed the parliament’s impeachment, a first in its history. While there was only an acting […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Economic sanctions, Korea Passing, KORUS FTA, Moon Jae-in, THAAD, Trump-Xi Summit
May 1, 2017 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 5, No. 2)

This has been a busy time in Washington with little clarity about US policies, as the Trump administration takes shape, Sino-US relations take center stage, and North Korea’s […]

Editorial Staff

100-day plan, Economic sanctions, Eurasian Initiative, G2, nuclear proliferation, One Belt One Road, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Trump, Trump-Xi Summit
May 1, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2017)

The period February-April has witnessed an outpouring of Japanese articles on ties with the United States (as Trump sets his Asia policies and meets with Abe before meeting […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Trump summit, comfort women, Economic sanctions, Kim Jong-nam, Moon Jae-in, Senkaku Islands, Strategic Triangle, Takeshima, THAAD, TPP, Trump-Xi Summit
April 26, 2017 National Commentaries
Japan-Russia-US Triangle

With the advent of the Trump administration, would not, first, Russo-US relations improve, allowing Japan to make progress in negotiations on the Northern Territories with Russia? Until early […]

Omae Hitoshi*

1956 Japan-Soviet Union Joint Declaration, Crimea, Economic sanctions, Japan-US Security Treaty, joint economic activity, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Syria
April 24, 2017 Special Forum
Introduction

The unpopularity of the United States is rising around the world, not excluding Northeast Asia. Donald Trump is seen as a loose cannon, arousing distrust in allies and […]

Editorial Staff

alliance system, Anti-Americanism, Asianism, authoritarianism, Cold War, democratization, Donald Trump, Internationalism, missile defense, nuclear proliferation
April 24, 2017 Special Forum
The Case of China

In the shadow of the recent summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, onlookers are eager for clues to the future of Sino–US relations and US policy in […]

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

AIIB, cultural diplomacy, Dalai Lama, Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, OBOR, RCEP, Scarborough Shoal, separatism, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, THAAD, Tibet, TPP, Trump-Xi Summit, US-Japan Security Treaty, Uyghur, Xinjiang
April 24, 2017 Special Forum
The Case of Russia

When Russian and Japanese foreign and defense ministers met in Tokyo in mid-March for their 2+2 discussions, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sensed the presence of a third party […]

Chris Miller

annexation of Crimea, Cold War, Korean War, military alliance, nuclear proliferation, regime change, sanctions, Six-Party Talks, THAAD, TPP
April 24, 2017 Special Forum
The Case of Japan

Japan has never been so closely attached to the United States as it is today. The military alliance has reached an apogee different from Japan’s hands-off approach to […]

Gilbert Rozman

Anti-Americanism, bubble economy, Donald Trump, Hiroshima bombing, historical revisionism, pacifism, Pearl Harbor, TPP, Yasukuni Shrine