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April 19, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2016)

In early 2016, Chinese articles assessed Japanese relations with Myanmar, ASEAN’s South China Sea policy, and China–ASEAN relations. They considered South Korea’s new policies toward Japan and the […]

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

Arctic policy, ASEAN-Chinan relations, Japan-Myanmar relations, Maritime security, NPT, South China Sea
April 14, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2016)

In the late winter of 2016, the Japanese mainstream was pleased with US foreign policy, if nervous about campaign rhetoric: reassured about triangularity opposed to North Korea, but […]

Editorial Staff

December 28 Japan-ROK agreement, History textbooks, JICA, South China Sea, Takeshima, Trump
April 7, 2016 Review Article
Ex-ambassadors to Seoul Advise It to Change

G. A. Ivashentsov and Shin Beom-shik, eds., Bezopasnost’ i Sotrudnichestvo v Severo-Vostochnoi Azii: Sovmestnyi Dokument Rossiiskikh i Iuzhnokoreiskikh Ekspertov (Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Joint Document of […]

Gilbert Rozman

Historical consciousness, North Korean threat, Sino-US Relations, trilateralism
April 7, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 4, No. 2)

Sino-US Relations While many are discussing the dominance of competition over cooperation in Sino-US relations, one DC presentation argued that both threads are intensifying under the strong leadership […]

Editorial Staff

Eurasian Five, Japanese nationalism, Obama-Xi Summit, Russian Far East, South China Sea
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
US-Japan Relations, 2015-2017

One year has passed since (in The Asan Forum 3, no. 1) I analyzed US-Japan relations during the first two years (December 2012-January 2015) of Abe Shinzo’s second […]

Glen S. Fukushima

Abe Shinzo, Abenomics, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), US Presidential Primaries, US-Japan Joint Vision Statement, US-Japan Relations, US-Japan Security Treaty
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
Synopsis: German Marshall Fund Workshop on Sino-Russian Relations After Maidan—A New Reality? (February 4, 2016)

In 2015, Sino-Russian relations figured into debates on international relations more than at any time since the end of the Cold War. There was notable divergence on the […]

Editorial Staff

Sino-Russian Relations
February 22, 2016 Open Forum
Honeymoons Gone Awry: Abe-Putin, Putin-Xi, and Park-Xi

The term “honeymoon” has been used for three bilateral relationships in Northeast Asia, and there remains some uncertainty whether it still applies today. It gained popularity following what […]

Gilbert Rozman

Honeymoon
February 11, 2016 National Commentaries
A Japanese Perspective

"US-ROK-Japanese Trilateral Security Cooperation"   In the mid-1990s, when Japan and the United States redefined their alliance and revised the “Guidelines for Defense Cooperation between the United States […]

Yamaguchi Noboru*

Regionalism, Track 2 talks, US deterrence
February 1, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2016)

The mood in Japan was unexpectedly hopeful as 2015 drew to an end and a new year began. Nervousness prevalent through much of 2015 had dissipated. Confident leadership, […]

Editorial Staff

Japan, National security, Non-military activity, Shuttle diplomacy
December 7, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 6)

Park Geun-hye’s visit to Washington, the aftermath of Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, the state of Japan’s military, Russia’s assertive policy toward Japan, and the state of Central […]

Editorial Staff

Central Asia, East Asian security, National security, Sino-US Relations