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April 8, 2024 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (March 2024)

China, Sino-US relations, North Korea, India, and the BRICS as well as a possible Japan-North Korea summit drew attention in Russian publications in the first months of 2024. […]

Editorial Staff

APEC, Belt and Road Initiative, BRICS, RCEP, SCO
December 27, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (December 2018)

The last part of 2018 was marked by the hopeful aftermath of the Abe-Xi summit and the new push by Abe and Putin to resolve the long-lingering dispute […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, America First, APEC, East Asia Summit, free and open Indo-Pacific, Korea boom, Tokyo Strategy 2018
December 8, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2017)

Russian publications through the first half of the fall of 2017 were largely optimistic, assuming the decline of the United States, the reliability of China as a partner, […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

APEC, BRI, Eastern Economic Forum, Great Eurasian Partnership, SCO, turn to the East
November 15, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2017)

From September to November of 2017, South Korean news editorials discussed Trump and Moon’s UN speeches and the growing dissonance in their approaches toward North Korea. They also […]

Eun A Jo

APEC, KORUS FTA, Moon-Xi summit, Trump-Moon summit, Trump-Xi Summit, UN General Assembly
June 17, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

This second positive scenario of possible Russo-US cooperation in Asia assesses the latest developments in bilateral relations and US anti-Russian sentiments, the regional background in the Asia-Pacific as […]

Anna Kireeva

APEC, ASEAN, Asia pivot, Donald Trump, EAS, NATO, North Korea, RCEP, RFE
March 27, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2017)

On February 10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried an Interfax interview with Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov on Russian Asia policies in the past year. He cited […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Abe Shinzo, APEC, ASEAN, Cold War, Denuclearization, Eastern Economic Forum, globalization, Greater Eurasia, India, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Pakistan, Park Geun-hye, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, TPP, Trump, Xi Jinping
December 28, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Was President Putin’s visit on December 15-16 a success or a failure? Media coverage seems to have been almost unanimous in Japan and Russia. In Japan, a general […]

Kazuhiko Togo

1855 treaty, 1956 Joint Declaration, Abe Shinzo, APEC, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Putin, Territorial Disputes, Trump administration, two islands, two plus alpha
December 16, 2016 Special Forum
Running into a Long Brick Wall? Trump and the Future of US-China Relations

The surprise election of Donald Trump as the United States’ 45th president triggered alarm bells in capitals across the world including Beijing, given Trump’s haphazard foreign policy remarks […]

Lee Chung Min*

APEC, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Balance of power, burden-sharing, climate change, Duterte, FTAAP, Iran, ISIS, NATO, nuclear proliferation, nuclear umbrella, Paris Climate Accord, Philippines Asia pivot, RCEP, sanctions, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Syria, Taiwan, terrorism, THAAD, Thucydides trap, TPP, trade deficit, trade war, Tsai Ing-wen
August 29, 2016 Open Forum
A Chinese Take on India’s Eastward Strategy and Its Implications

India is rising, with growing economic power and expanding interests. India is not satisfied with being a dominant power in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. It is […]

CHU Shulong

APEC, ASEAN, ASEAN + 6, BRICS, East China Sea, One Belt One Road, One Road", RCEP, SCO, South China Sea
April 19, 2016 Open Forum
Russia-Southeast Asia Relations: In China’s Shadow?

From May 19-20, the leaders of Southeast Asia nations will convene for the Russia-ASEAN summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of […]

Vitaly Kozyrev

APEC, EAS, EEU, regional security architecture, Russian Far East