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September 30, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (September 2019)

Three themes pervaded Russian writings on East Asia over the summer of 2019 after the G20 summit in Osaka: 1) China—its model, its trade war with the US, […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI summit, China Dream, G20 summit, John Bolton, One State Two Systems, Silk Road, Sino-Soviet relations
September 9, 2019 Open Forum
Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: The political use of WWII history in Russia & China

Under a perfectly blue sky in September 2015, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin strode out to the Gate of Heavenly Peace in the center of Beijing. This was […]

Katie Stallard

Great Patriotic War, political memory, Victory Day, Vladimir Putin, World War II, Xi Jinping
September 3, 2019 National Commentaries
A View from the United States

Since early June, Hong Kong has been experiencing one of the most serious political crises in its history, arguably the worst since the Maoist-inspired demonstrations against British colonial […]

Harry Harding

Chinese National Day, Hong Kong demonstrations, Hong Kong Policy Act, Occupy Central Movement, One Country Two Systems
September 3, 2019 National Commentaries
A View from Hong Kong

Both the Chief Executive (CE) of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, and Zhang Xiaoming, the head of the Hong Kong and Macao Office under the Chinese State Council in […]

David Zweig

Basic Law, Occupy Central Movement, One Country Two Systems, Tiananmen, Umbrella Movement
September 3, 2019 National Commentaries
A View from Japan

Amid the improving atmosphere in Japan-China relations, the crisis in Hong Kong has left many Japanese asking how their should country respond. In reaction to the proposed amendment […]

Kurata Toru*

"Belt and Road" Initiative, free and open Indo-Pacific, Senkaku Islands, Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Yasukuni Shrine
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 29, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: China (August 2019)

In the middle of 2019, Chinese experts assessed Sino–US relations under the Trump administration and explored the implications of the United States’ competitive approach to China for China’s […]

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

"Belt and Road" Initiative, 5G, Doklam crisis, Indo-Pacific strategy, US-China trade war
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