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October 26, 2016 Open Forum
Balancing China: Moving Beyond the Containment Fallacy

At a multinational defense forum with ASEAN nations’ defense ministers in late September, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter repeated his call for like-minded nations to “catalyze the […]

Adam P. Liff

ASEAN, China threat theory, containment, deep engagement, Maritime Security Initiative, rebalance, RIMPAC, Shangri-La 2016, South China Sea
June 3, 2016 Open Forum
Chinese Interpretations of Japan and Its Role in the Indo-Pacific Region in 2016

In April, Kishida Fumio made the first official visit by a Japanese foreign minister to China in more than four years. Sino–Japanese relations had deteriorated over the Senkaku/Diaoyu […]

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

Article 9, China threat theory, Expansionist history, India-Japan relations, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, proactive pacifism, Quadrilateral initiative, South China Sea, UNCLOS