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May 1, 2018 National Commentaries
A View from the United States

Now that the spectacle of the Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un summit has been left for the history books, attention is turning immediately to the anticipated meeting a […]

Gilbert Rozman

inter-Korean summit, Pyeongchang Olympics, Russia scandal, trade war, Trump-Kim summit
May 1, 2018 National Commentaries
Moon’s Precarious Push for Peace

Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s Address, and the surge of diplomatic overtures that followed, came as a shock to many. The preceding year had been marked by the North’s […]

Eun A Jo

inter-Korean summit, Kim Jong-un, Panmunjom Declaration, Pyeongchang Olympics
April 30, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights: April 2018

The pace of change was overwhelming in the final weeks of winter and the first month of spring. Moon Jae-in appeared to be in the driver’s seat, but […]

Editorial Staff

China-Japan-South Korea summit, inter-Korean summit, Kim-Xi summit, Pax Sinica, Trump-Kim summit
April 30, 2018 Open Forum
An American Lens on China’s Interference and Influence-Building Abroad

Last June, Australian reporters for the Four Corners program released a bombshell documentary compiling much of the known (and some previously unknown) facts about Huang Xiangmo and Chau […]

Peter Mattis

Chinese Communist Party, Confucian institutes, Propaganda Department, United Front work
April 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2018)

In early 2018, Chinese analysts assessed the Trump administration’s tariff policies and considered various countries’ policies toward North Korea. They considered the Trump administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, China’s South […]

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

BRI, Indo-Pacific strategy, maximum pressure, TPP, US-China trade war
April 3, 2018 Open Forum
Understanding the Challenge from China

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) characterizes China as a “revisionist power” that is “attempting to erode American security and prosperity” and “shape a world antithetical to […]

Paul Heer

Century of humiliation, China Dream, Kuomintang, May Fourth movement, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2018 with Focus on Korea)

Not only was Abe battered by a domestic scandal, his foreign policy was rocked by diplomacy, history, and trade shocks. The North Korean presence at the Winter Olympics […]

Editorial Staff

“smile diplomacy”, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Pyeongchang Olympics, Six-Party Talks, Yasukuni
March 14, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2018)

Understandably, Japanese have been preoccupied with the Korean Peninsula since the start of 2018. In this Country Report, we cover issues not central to the serious matters over […]

Editorial Staff

“Year of China”, BRI, CPTPP, free and open Indo-Pacific, TPP-11
March 8, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2018)

In February and March 2018, South Korean news editorials focused on developments in US-South Korean relations and inter-Korean relations before, during, and after the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. […]

Eun A Jo

Kim Jong-chul, Kim Yo-jung, Mike Pence, North-South talks, Pyeongchang Olympics, trade war, Victor Cha
March 1, 2018 Open Forum
With Friends Like These: Japan-ROK Cooperation and US Policy

Although they share a common ally, history and politics keep Japan and South Korea at arm’s length and severely limit their defense cooperation. Since at least the mid-1990s, […]

Eric Heginbotham

comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, GSOMIA, Three Eyes, Yasukuni