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March 3, 2022 Country Reports · South Korea
Country Report: South Korea (February 2022)

In January and February, with increasing tension across the border between Russia and Ukraine, the US seemed to move the focus to Europe after its withdrawal from Afghanistan, […]

Shin Munkyoung

Beijing Olympics, free and open Indo-Pacific, Philip Goldberg, Quad, Taiwan, Ukraine, UNESCO
March 2, 2022 Open Forum
Stepping Up to the Challenge and Embracing Pragmatism: Two Visions of Foreign Policy in the South Korean Presidential Election of 2022

The South Korean presidential election is only days away and, unlike past elections, the outcome is difficult to predict. There is, however, one thing that we can be […]

J. James Kim

China, free and open Indo-Pacific, Lee Jae-myung, presidential election, Quad, Ukraine, Yoon Suk-yeol
February 28, 2022 Open Forum
Washington Insights (January-February 2022)

The beginning of 2022 saw Russia threaten war in Ukraine, China loom as an undiminished threat to Taiwan, and North Korea launch missile after missile as its threat […]

Editorial Staff

free and open Indo-Pacific, Quad, Russocentrism, Sinocentrism, Taiwan, Ukraine
December 27, 2021 National Commentaries
A View from the United States

From an American perspective, Australia’s turn away from China in recent years and its embrace of AUKUS in 2021 are considered appropriate and welcome responses to both China’s […]

June Teufel Dreyer

5G, AUKUS, Belt and Road Initiative, Economic sanctions, Quad
December 27, 2021 National Commentaries
A View from Australia

Australia’s relations with China have not been healthy for some years, but they deteriorated further in 2020-2021 when Beijing introduced savage import restrictions to punish Canberra for proposing […]

John Fitzgerald

AUKUS, Huawei, Nine-dash line, Quad, South China Sea, Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
December 27, 2021 National Commentaries
A View from the United Kingdom

The announcement of a new trilateral security alliance between the UK, Australia and the US on September 15, 2021 took many observers by surprise. This was not just […]

Kerry Brown

AUKUS, Belt and Road Initiative, Hong Kong, Quad
December 6, 2021 Open Forum
Washington Insights (November-December 2021)

Washington Insights (November-December 2021)

Editorial Staff

AUKUS, End of War Declaration, free and open Indo-Pacific, Quad
October 25, 2021 Open Forum
Washington Forum (September-October 2021)

In the late summer and early fall 2021 the number of webinars increased. China was, of course, on people’s minds, but most attention centered on the southern tier […]

Editorial Staff

AUKUS, COVID-19, CPTPP, Quad, Taiwan contingency
October 25, 2021 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (October 2021)

In mid-2021, Chinese analysts continued to focus particular attention on India. They assessed the Modi administration’s economic diplomacy and its implications for regional relations. They also carefully evaluated […]

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

COVID-19, CPTPP, Indo-Pacific strategy, Quad, RCEP, US-ROK alliance
September 27, 2021 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (September 2021)

Russian publications covered some important developments in the late summer of 2021. One was the death knell to eight years of Russo-Japanese exploration of a diplomatic breakthrough: a […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Afghanistan, LDP elections, Quad, Taiwan contingency