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July 3, 2017 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 5, No. 3)

In May and June, challenges mounted for observers of foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific region. Donald Trump kept throwing US policy into question. Clashing views of the Belt […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, Donald Trump, G2, TPP, US-Japan alliance, US-ROK alliance
June 20, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (June 2017)

Despite his unsettling campaign rhetoric and transitional moves, Trump rekindled hope among the Japanese right and the left in his first two months in office; but in April […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, RCEP, South China Sea, THAAD, TPP, Trump-Xi Summit
June 17, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

This second positive scenario of possible Russo-US cooperation in Asia assesses the latest developments in bilateral relations and US anti-Russian sentiments, the regional background in the Asia-Pacific as […]

Anna Kireeva

APEC, ASEAN, Asia pivot, Donald Trump, EAS, NATO, North Korea, RCEP, RFE
June 17, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Moscow continues to pursue irreconcilable policies globally and in Asia. As Anna Kireeva has written, Russian writers, if not the government, highlight an allegedly irreconcilable Sino-American rivalry to […]

Stephen Blank

ASEAN, BRI, EURASEC, North Korea, RCEP, RFE, South China Sea, TPP
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 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
China-US-Russia Triangle

After Chairman Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump met on April 6-7 in Florida’s Mar-a-lago, trilateral relations among China, the United States, and Russia became the focus of […]

Feng Shaolei

chemical weapons, Cold War, Crimea, cyber attacks, Mar-a-Lago, Munich security summit, Syria, Trump-Xi Summit, Yalta model
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