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August 29, 2016 Open Forum
A Chinese Take on India’s Eastward Strategy and Its Implications

India is rising, with growing economic power and expanding interests. India is not satisfied with being a dominant power in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. It is […]

CHU Shulong

APEC, ASEAN, ASEAN + 6, BRICS, East China Sea, One Belt One Road, One Road", RCEP, SCO, South China Sea
August 24, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights

In the summer of 2016, Washington DC has been consumed with the Clinton-Trump race and the unprecedented revolt of the Republican national security establishment against their party’s presidential […]

Editorial Staff

alliance building, Cold War, rebalance, sanctions, Sea of Okhotsk, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, THAAD
August 24, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (August 2016)

The Hague tribunal’s adjudication of the South China Sea dispute between China and the Philippines dominated Chinese foreign policy discussions in mid-2016. Chinese analysts also assessed relations with […]

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

Arunachal Pradesh, ASEAN, Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, East and South China Seas, Eurasian Economic Union, Hague Tribunal, Silk Road Economic Belt, Six-Party Talks, Tibet, Xinjiang
August 12, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II: India’s Balance of Interest in the Asian Century

By outlining the nuances propelling India’s diplomatic and military engagements in recent weeks, this article argues that each nation in the India-US-Japan trilateral design is guided by its […]

Titli Basu

BRICS, East China Sea, India-US-Japan, Nuclear Suppliers’ Group, RIMPAC, SCO, Shangri-La Dialogue, South China Sea, UNCLOS
August 12, 2016 Open Forum
Northeast Asia’s Space Launch Nationalism

*The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and do not represent official policies of the U.S. Navy or the U.S. Department of Defense. […]

James Clay Moltz

anti-satellite weapons test, geostationary orbit, liquid-fuel rocket, low-Earth orbit, space launch capability, UN Convention on the Registration of Space Objects, UN Outer Space Treaty
August 12, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (July 2016)

Articles in the spring and early summer of 2016 were split between two categories: those on Sino-Russian relations, affirming or refuting charges that they have failed to meet […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, Asia-Pacific region, East and South China Seas, Eurasian Economic Union, Silk Road Economic Belt, Sochi Russia-ASEAN summit
August 12, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (August 2016)

In late spring and early summer, the focus of the Japanese media shifted from the G7 and Obama’s visit to Hiroshima to the South China Sea ruling and […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Donald Trump, EEU-ASEAN, G7 Summit, Hashimoto-Yeltsin plan, Senkaku Islands, South China Sea, Takeshima, THAAD
July 27, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II: Japan-US-India Security Cooperation Has Progressed “Dramatically”

The Japan-US-India cooperation has progressed dramatically over the last two months (June-July 2016). Three developments, in particular, have highlighted an advance in the trilateral security cooperation. First, defense […]

Nagao Satoru*

Asian Security Summit, Indian Ocean, Malabar maritime exercises, Shangri-La Dialogue, South China Sea, UNCLOS
June 15, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2016)

In the spring of 2016, Chinese analysts considered the repercussions of North Korea’s latest nuclear test. They assessed the prospects for China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) policy, […]

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

Afghan reconstruction, Cuban missile crisis, enuclearization, Japanese intervention, Sino-Iranian relations, SLOC, Sustainable security, THAAD
June 3, 2016 Open Forum
Chinese Interpretations of Japan and Its Role in the Indo-Pacific Region in 2016

In April, Kishida Fumio made the first official visit by a Japanese foreign minister to China in more than four years. Sino–Japanese relations had deteriorated over the Senkaku/Diaoyu […]

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

Article 9, China threat theory, Expansionist history, India-Japan relations, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, proactive pacifism, Quadrilateral initiative, South China Sea, UNCLOS