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December 12, 2024 China · Country Reports
County Report: China (November 2024)

In mid-2024, one Chinese analyst argued that the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) undermines efforts to advance regional economic integration, either via APEC or by using […]

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

ASEAN, AUKUS, Belt and Road Initiative, Global South, NATO
September 21, 2024 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (August 2024)

In mid-2024, Chinese analysts assessed the strength and efficacy of ASEAN in the context of intensifying China–US competition. They explored the impact of this major power competition on […]

Danielle F. S. Cohen

ASEAN, ASEAN centrality, AUKUS, US-China rivalry
July 1, 2024 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2024)

In early 2024, Chinese analysts assessed India’s efforts to assert greater influence in the Global South. One article evaluated India’s attempts to replace China as the leader of […]

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

ASEAN, Belt and Road Initiative, Global South, NATO, Non-aligned Movement
May 22, 2024 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (May 2024)

On February 16 Yomiuri discussed a proposed law making it easier to share secrets and conduct joint research. This aimed to raise Japan to the international level for […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN, Taiwan contingency, Ukraine War, US-Japan-ROK Trilateralism
July 5, 2023 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2023)

In early 2023, Chinese analysts explored ASEAN perspectives on the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). They considered the reasons for different levels of enthusiasm for IPEF among […]

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

ASEAN, Belt and Road Initiative, Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, NATO
December 13, 2022 National Commentaries
A View from Southeast Asia

In Southeast Asia, November is typically a season of summits, as the rotating chair of ASEAN hosts the ASEAN and related summits that involve leaders of all ASEAN […]

Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

ASEAN, Diplomacy, Joe Biden, Summitry, Xi Jinping
December 30, 2020 Special Forum
America’s Indo-Pacific challenge

This article has been updated on February 4. Competing with China is the foremost external policy challenge for the new US administration of President Joe Biden. More precisely, […]

Rory Medcalf

ASEAN, COVID-19, free and open Indo-Pacific, US-China rivalry
December 28, 2020 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2020)

In the fall of 2020, Chinese analysts assessed US and Japanese policies in light of recent anti-globalization trends and made predictions about the United States’ near-term relations with […]

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

ASEAN, COVID-19, CPTPP, RCEP, trilateralism, US-China rivalry
December 10, 2020 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (November 2020)

The late fall of 2020 was eventful for Japanese foreign relations because it meant the start of a new relationship with a US president—this time with a new […]

Editorial Staff

ASEAN, free and open Indo-Pacific, Hong Kong, RCEP, Senkakus, South China Sea, Tokyo Olympics, TPP, US-China rivalry
August 23, 2018 National Commentaries
Can Vietnam’s Doi Moi Reforms Be an Inspiration for North Korea?

North Korea’s future remains one of the biggest questions of current world politics. Not only because of the complexities related to denuclearization, but also, and potentially even more […]

Huong Le Thu

APAC, ASEAN, Doi Moi, Vietnamese Communist Party, Workers’ Party of Korea