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October 8, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (October 2018)

Setting aside the rush of publications on China and North Korea—from Abe’s October visit to China to Japan’s response to plans for a new Trump-Kim summit—this report covers […]

Editorial Staff

AIIB, ARF, BRI, BRICS, comfort women, EEF, free and open Indo-Pacific, Sharp power, the Quad, US-China trade war
October 1, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2018)

More than bilateral relations, the big picture interested Russian writers as the summer drew to a close. The prevalent assumption was that the West is in rapid decline […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, BRICS, EEF, Khasan-Rajin railway, Power of Siberia-2, Russian Far East, Southern Kuriles
September 27, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (September 2018)

The second half of the summer saw the build-up to the third summit of Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un as well as more wide-ranging diplomacy in North-South relations […]

Kim Kimberly

ASEAN Regional Forum, inter-Korean summit, Kaesong Industrial Complex, Mount Geumgang, Panmunjom Declaration, Pyongyang Declaration
September 27, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights Vol. 6, No. 5

The start of the fall brought further confirmation that Trump is driving the agenda, whether by launching trade wars, disheartening allies, or refusing to attend the annual summit […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, Eastern Economic Forum, JSOMIA, New Northern Policy, Quad, SCO, Silk Road
September 4, 2018 Open Forum
Can China Seduce Japan? 14 Reasons for Its Overtures in 2018

As Sino-US relations have deteriorated in 2018, Beijing has looked elsewhere in Asia for closer ties: to the Korean Peninsula, where Kim Jong-un was desperate to improve relations […]

Gilbert Rozman

BRI, Confucius Institutes, South China Sea, trade war, US-Japan alliance
August 31, 2018 Special Forum
Introduction

Relations between Washington and Beijing are said to be worse than at any point since their normalization in 1979, and they are on the verge of plunging further […]

Editorial Staff

South China Sea, trade war, US-ROK alliance
August 31, 2018 Special Forum
International Law in US-China Relations: Trade Wars and Maritime Rights in the Era of Xi and Trump

In an increasingly fraught US-China relationship, issues of international law have become important in their own right and illustrative of broader patterns. A pair of particularly salient and […]

Jacques deLisle

BRI, CPTPP, Made in China 2025, RCEP, South China Sea, TPP, UNCLOS, WTO
August 31, 2018 Special Forum
A Prognosis of the Current Sino-American Malaise

The current relationship between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States has been described by reputable China scholars as the worst it has been since […]

Lowell Dittmer

BRI, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, South China Sea, UNCLOS, Xi Jinping Thought
August 31, 2018 Special Forum
US-China Rivalry and the Future of the Korean Peninsula

The ongoing “trade war” between the United States and China is not just a trade dispute in light of the two sides’ intensifying rivalry in the area of […]

Kim Sung-han*

alliance transition, CVID, Panmunjom Declaration, Quad, THAAD, US-ROK alliance, value alliance
August 31, 2018 Special Forum
The Current Crisis in Sino-US relations: How Deep Can It Be?

Sino-US relations appear to have entered a prolonged period of acute rivalry and growing hostility. The current crisis is the result of a long process of tensions building […]

Vasily Kashin

Air-Sea Battle, Made in China 2025, South China Sea, THAAD, trade war, US-North Korea summit