Country Report: Russia (March 2025)
Praise for China permeated Russian writings in the winter of 2025, sometimes backed by contrasts with Russia’s foreign policy choices in the late 1980s. Rejection of “universal values” […]
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India and the Quad: The Potential and Pitfalls under a Trump Presidency
The Quad Foreign Minister’s meeting convening on the sidelines of the inauguration of a new US administration under Donald Trump is significant. The meeting in the year India […]
Southeast Asia and Japan’s New Leadership
On October 1, 2024, Ishiba Shigeru was inaugurated as Japan’s 102th prime minister. He is an experienced politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with in-depth knowledge of […]
A Perspective from Japan
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China’s Relations with Asia’s Southern Tier
Four themes characterized Chinese analysis of India during 2021–2024. The first was India’s view of the Indo-Pacific strategy and the Quad, which led to a key debate: Was […]
Country Report: China (April 2024)
In early 2024, Chinese analysts carefully examined developments in the Indo-Pacific. They explored the differences between India and Japan as regional powers and the reasons for each country […]
Introduction
Faced with Donald Trump’s unprecedented disruptions to US foreign policy and Kim Jong-un’s roller-coaster ride (from repeated provocations in 2017 to a diplomatic offensive in 2018), Xi Jinping […]
China’s Strategic Thinking toward the US Role in the Indo-Pacific, 2017-2020
No administration has been more consequential or definitive than the Trump administration in altering the course of US-China relations since the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United […]
China’s Strategic Thinking toward India, 2017-2020
China–India relations from 2017 to 2020 fluctuated dramatically against a rapidly changing global environment. The period was bookended by two territorial disputes which drove bilateral relations to depressing […]
Country Report: China (October 2023)
In mid-2023, Chinese analysts evaluated the role of US minilateralism in US Indo-Pacific policy, most notably the Quad and AUKUS, arguing that it was likely to produce systemic […]