A View from the United States
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo had hoped to improve ties with Beijing ever since returning to office in 2012, and finally, as China’s relations with the United States were […]
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A View from China
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s Beijing tour in October of 2018 went well. It is not just the first time a Japanese prime minister has returned to Beijing in […]
Russia’s Revived Debate on China: Historical Perspective and Implicit Significance
In the fall of 2018, the case is again being made that Russia is likely to be amenable to distance itself from China despite the recent tightening of […]
The Balance between Sinophobia and Discourse on Cooperation: Expert Opinion on China in Russia and Kazakhstan
The Beijing-Moscow-Astana triangle is the key to the processes of integration and economic cooperation in “Central Eurasia”—a recent but salient geopolitical construct, the appearance of which was brought […]
As China and Russia Draw Closer, Mongolia Feels the Squeeze
In September 2018 Russia carried out the largest military exercise since the height of the Cold War.1 Vostok-2018, held in Siberia, drew considerable attention in the Western media, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]