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November 13, 2025 Special Forum
Looking Back on The Asan Forum, 2013-25, as Editor and Author

As my career at Princeton University reached its end, I was fortunate to be asked by the Asan Institute to launch The Asan Forum. As the bi-monthly, on-line […]

Gilbert Rozman

Foreign policy, Northeast Asia, ROK-Japan Relations, Sino-Russian Relations, strategic thinking in Asia
November 13, 2025 Special Forum
The Evolution of Chinese Thinking, 1985-2025, about the Cold War in Asia

Since the end of the Cold War, historical memory has come to occupy a central place in thinking about international relations. Under the mindset of the postwar polarized […]

Gilbert Rozman

China Foreign Policy, Chinese nationalism, Korean War, Sino-Russian Relations, US-China Relations
September 30, 2024 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (September 2024)

Through the summer of 2024 no issue related to East Asia drew more attention than ongoing troubles in Sino-Russian bilateral trade. Other themes were Sino-US relations, China’s economic […]

Editorial Staff

Putin-Kim summit, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Sino-Russian Relations, US-China rivalry
September 4, 2023 National Commentaries
A Perspective from China and Russia

Three commentaries matter most in the aftermath of August’s Camp David trilateral summit of the United States, Japan, and South Korea. What the three participants say, of course, […]

Gilbert Rozman

Camp David, New Cold War, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Sino-Russian Relations, trilateralism
May 23, 2022 Open Forum
20 Ways China Is Losing the Ukraine War

In the spring of 2022 after the contours of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine had become clear, the impact on China also became apparent. Altogether, this […]

Gilbert Rozman

“Turn to the East”, Sino-Russian Relations, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping
May 23, 2022 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (May 2022)

The February 4, 2022 joint statement of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping launched a new phase in Sino-Russian relations, which acquired clear meaning when Russia went to war […]

Editorial Staff

“Turn to the East”, NATO, Sino-Russian Relations, Ukraine War
May 30, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2016)

On April 12, Sergei Lavrov in Rossiiskaya Gazeta made clear Russian thinking about Mongolia, Japan, and China. His words for Mongolia spoke only of closeness: in history, today, […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Authoritarian capitalism, EEU, Eurasianism, Pluralism, Sino-Russian Relations, SREB, Turn to Asia
March 10, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Gilbert Rozman has good reason to be skeptical about the Russian Far East (RFE). In my first installment, I advanced a similar argument that the root cause of […]

Artyom Lukin

Sino-Russian Relations
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
Synopsis: German Marshall Fund Workshop on Sino-Russian Relations After Maidan—A New Reality? (February 4, 2016)

In 2015, Sino-Russian relations figured into debates on international relations more than at any time since the end of the Cold War. There was notable divergence on the […]

Editorial Staff

Sino-Russian Relations
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I

For a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Far East (RFE) has been caught between Moscow’s failed promises, bureaucratic barriers of a local […]

Gilbert Rozman

Economic Relations, Russian Far East, Sino-Russian Relations