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October 7, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2019)

August saw a series of missile provocations from North Korea in the midst of growing tension between South Korea and Japan; the hostility against one another reached its […]

Kim Kimberly

GSOMIA, John Bolton, peace economy, Trump-Kim summit, UN General Assembly, US-China trade war, US-ROK alliance
September 2, 2019 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Two months after the G20, Abe Shinzo can look back with satisfaction that, despite failing to secure the “supermajority” that the ruling LDP party would have needed to […]

Ra Mason

"Belt and Road" Initiative, G20, Osaka Summit, Shinzo Abe, US-China trade war
September 2, 2019 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Japan hosted the G20 Osaka Summit at the end of June 2019, and the world promptly forgot about it and moved on. That is not a failure, at […]

Benjamin L. Self

"Belt and Road" Initiative, G20, Osaka Summit, Osaka Track, Shinzo Abe
August 28, 2019 Special Forum
Introduction

The G20 summit will easily pass into oblivion for its collective agenda, but it should long be remembered for its bilateral and trilateral summits and one that failed […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20 summit, US-China trade war
August 28, 2019 Special Forum
Abe’s Korea Policy

Sandwiched around the G20 Osaka summit were Abe’s “honeymoon” with Trump, called the best relationship ever with the United States, and Abe’s “nightmare” with Moon Jae-in, called the […]

Gilbert Rozman

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20 summit, GSOMIA, Trans-Pacific Partnership, US-China trade war, value diplomacy
August 28, 2019 Special Forum
Moon’s Failed Balancing Act

The mood was decidedly upbeat in South Korea around this time last year: following the “historic summit” between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore, many praised Moon […]

Eun A Jo

“No Japan” movement, G20 summit, GSOMIA, Korea Passing, nuclear diplomacy, Panmunjom handshake, THAAD, US-China trade war
August 28, 2019 Special Forum
Trump’s Illusions

In the eyes of US observers, the G20 summit was more a series of bilateral meetings than a multilateral summit, more a prelude to Trump’s visit to the […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20 summit, History Wars, nuclear diplomacy
July 29, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2019)

In the summer of 2019, South Korean media discussed the country’s relations with China, the United States, North Korea, and Japan. Specifically, they covered: (1) the Xi-Kim summit; […]

Editorial Staff

G20, GSOMIA, Trump-Kim summit, US-China trade war, US-ROK alliance, Xi-Kim summit
July 1, 2019 Open Forum
China and the Korean Peninsula after the Hanoi Summit

The Hanoi summit between President Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un had been expected to deliver concrete results on the nuclear negotiations and/or US-North Korea bilateral […]

Yun Sun

byungjin, G20, Hanoi summit, Osaka Summit, THAAD, trade war, Xi-Kim summit
June 20, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2019)

In the spring of 2019, Chinese experts assessed China’s relations with the United States and Russia forty years after reform and opening began. They also evaluated China–Japan–South Korea […]

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

Cold War, Diaoyutai/Senkaku, Dokdo /Takeshima, freedom of navigation, South China Sea, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance