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January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I

For a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Far East (RFE) has been caught between Moscow’s failed promises, bureaucratic barriers of a local […]

Gilbert Rozman

Economic Relations, Russian Far East, Sino-Russian Relations
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I

The Russian Far East (RFE) constitutes both an asset and a liability for Russia. Stretching from east of Lake Baikal to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, this […]

Artyom Lukin

Economic Relations, Russian Far East
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
The Russian Far East

Editorial Staff

January 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2016)

The message in Russian media of late 2015 was pessimism about economic ties to China, but reluctance to blame the Chinese. Little is said about Russia’s relations in […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Chinese diaspora, Geopolitics, National identity, Regionalism, Yellow Peril
December 23, 2015 Special Forum
Sino-Russian Relations and the Failure of Russo-Japanese Relations

As Sino-Russian relations drew closer after Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, Russo-Japanese relations also seemed to be poised for an upward trajectory. Given the troubled […]

Stephen Blank

Kuril Island dispute, National security, PLAN, Sino-Russian arms trade
December 23, 2015 Special Forum
North Korea’s Place in Sino-Russian Relations and Identities

Sino-Russian relations and the attitudes of each toward the Korean Peninsula have drawn close scrutiny of late, including recent writings by me.1 The Asan Forum has carried relevant […]

Gilbert Rozman

3 vs. 3 regionalism, 5 vs. 1, National security, Six-Party Talks
December 23, 2015 Special Forum
Russia, China, and Central Asia: Time for Decision

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, one might have expected Central Asia to become a natural region of rivalry between Moscow, which could no longer exercise formal political control […]

Richard Weitz

Arab Spring, EEU, Regionalism, Silk Road Economic Belt, Uighur militancy
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
November 17, 2015 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2015)

Iurii Belobrov in the November Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn’ argued that Russia and China each on its own cannot match the US strategy to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

China, Eurasia, National security, One Belt One Road, Regionalism
October 20, 2015 Open Forum
Asia’s Southern Tier and Northern Tier

This article is in three parts: 1) an overview with comparisons; 2) an introduction to analysis of the Southern Tier centered on ASEAN, Australia, and India; and 3) […]

Gilbert Rozman

ASEAN, Regionalism, Sino-Russian Relations, triangularity