Looking Back on The Asan Forum, 2013-25, as Editor and Author

As my career at Princeton University reached its end, I was fortunate to be asked by the Asan Institute to launch The Asan Forum. As the bi-monthly, on-line […]

Country Report: Russia (August 2025)

Country Report: Russia History issues pervaded summertime Russian coverage of East Asia, including views of WWII and the Korean War. They arose in discussions of the September 3 […]

Introduction

Special Forum: Introduction The China-India-Russia Troika in the Summer of 2025 in the Context of Middle East Turmoil, Trump’s Tariffs, and the Trump-Putin Summit In August 2025, great […]

The China-Russia-India Troika in 2025: The View from China

The China-Russia-India Troika in 2025: The View from China Gilbert Rozman Russia and India are the two biggest challenges, apart from the United States, to forging a Sinocentric […]

Country Report: Russia (July 2025)

With Trump cutting trade deals, Xi Jinping seeking to rally states behind his notion of globalization, the EU and NATO steeling themselves to support Ukraine more fully, and […]

Country Report: Russia (January 2024)

Russian writings on the Asia-Pacific region at the end of 2024 and into 2025 took note of shifts in leadership in South Korea and Japan as well as […]

Chinese and Russian Designs for the Latticework of Eurasia

Chinese and Russian Designs for the Latticework of Eurasia Gilbert Rozman What do BRICS (named after early members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), the Shanghai Cooperation […]

Country Report: Russia (November 2024)

Along with some coverage of Ishiba Shigeru’s start as Japan’s prime minister, attention this fall has centered on the BRICS summit—which Russia hosted in Kazan—and on China and […]

China’s Strategic Thinking toward the US Role in the Indo-Pacific

When the world looks back at the Biden administration and US-China relations during the four years between 2021 and 2025, they might come to the realization that this […]

How China Doubled Down on the Polarization of Northeast Asia

On April 25, 2024, Xi Jinping gave Secretary of State Blinken a choice between stability and a downward spiral in the Sino-US relationship. China’s call for “stability” came […]