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December 23, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2017)

In late 2017, Chinese analysts explored Japan’s response to the North Korean nuclear crisis, its warmer relations with Russia, and conciliatory economic cooperation with the United States. They […]

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

America First, Donglang dispute, Malabar exercises, middle power, THAAD, US-Japan alliance
December 8, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2017)

Russian publications through the first half of the fall of 2017 were largely optimistic, assuming the decline of the United States, the reliability of China as a partner, […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

APEC, BRI, Eastern Economic Forum, Great Eurasian Partnership, SCO, turn to the East
December 8, 2017 Open Forum
Russia’s North Korea Policy: The Logic and Dilemma of Assisting North Korea

In seeking bilateral negotiations with North Korea, Japan focused on the abduction issue. It tried to steer the Six-Party Talks toward a comprehensive solution to this problem, as […]

Yoko Hirose

Hwasong-15, Moonshine Policy, Otto Warmbier, Six-Party Talks, state sponsor of terrorism
November 23, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Despite my role as a skeptic in the pairing of alternative scenarios, the need for objectivity demands that I acknowledge that I share most of the arguments advanced […]

Ivan Zuenko

19th Congress, Almazbek Atambaev, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Shavkat Mirziyoyev
November 10, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

In his negative scenario 1, Ivan Zuenko reviewed several possible factors that could substantially worsen Sino-Russian relations in general, including activation of latent Chinese claims to Russian territory […]

Richard Weitz

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Collective Security Treaty Organization, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Shavkat Mirziyoyev
November 4, 2017 Special Forum
The Trajectory of Chinese Foreign Policy: From Reactive Assertiveness to Opportunistic Activism

In recent years, particularly since Xi Jinping’s ascension to power, it has become commonplace for journalists and experts in the United States to describe China’s external behavior as […]

Ryan Hass

19th Party Congress, AIIB, BRI, BRICS, communist party, Xi Jinping
October 30, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2017)

The October issue of Bungei Shunju traced Abe’s trajectory as prime minister. It noted his persistent interest in Japan playing a leading global role, keeping US ties as […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, BRICS summit, comfort women, Senkaku Islands, THAAD, UN sanctions
October 23, 2017 Open Forum
The Eastern Economic Forum September 2017: What to Make of It?

For the third straight year in early September Vladimir Putin traveled to Vladivostok for an international forum with ambitious aspirations. Three objectives stood in the forefront: 1) to […]

Gilbert Rozman

Keywords: economic development, security policy
October 23, 2017 Open Forum
Prospects and Limitations of Russo-Chinese Economic Relations

For 15 years from the moment of the signing of the Treaty of Good-neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation between Russia and China, noteworthy changes have occurred in this bilateral […]

P.A. Minakir

an Far East, BRI, EEU-China zone of free trade, SREB
September 29, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2017)

From July to September of 2017, South Korean news editorials discussed threats facing the country from three angles: 1) “Korea scaring,” referring to the latest set of North […]

Eun A Jo

Berlin framework, ICBM, Korea Passing, Nuclear Test, THAAD, US-ROK alliance