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October 6, 2016 National Commentaries
ASEAN’s Divided Approach to China’s Rise

In a speech marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of ASEAN-China dialogue relations earlier this month, Chinese premier Li Keqiang offered an unsurprisingly positive view of the […]

Prashanth Parameswaran

1Malaysia Development Berhad, ASEAN-China relations, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, One Belt One Road, South China Sea
October 6, 2016 National Commentaries
Can Australia Say “No”?

Growing trade and investment between their highly complementary economies ensures that Australia and China have a common interest in maintaining healthy bilateral relations. To be sure, Canberra and […]

John Fitzgerald

China-Australia relations, Foreign donations, Foreign Investment, Political Institutions, South China Sea
September 22, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Below I respond to the negative scenario for Sino-Russian relations, as presented by Brian Carlson, and attempt to discern the most realistic outcome for how this relationship will […]

Gregory Shtraks

Eurasian Economic Union, G20, One Belt One Road, Russia Far East, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, US hegemony
September 22, 2016 Review Article
Chinese Perspectives on Economic Diplomacy

With China’s growing economic (and political) clout, economic diplomacy has become an important tool in Chinese foreign policy. Beijing has provided extensive inducements in the form of aid […]

Audrye Wong

ASEAN, Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank, One Belt One Road, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea
August 29, 2016 Special Forum
Chinese views of Japanese history

Sino-Japanese relations have been on a downswing in recent years, despite resumed meetings between the leaders Xi Jinping and Abe Shinzo since late 2014. Strategic and territorial differences […]

(Tokyo University)

East China Sea, militarism, Revisionism, South China Sea, Twenty-One Demands, WWII, Yasukuni
August 29, 2016 Open Forum
A Chinese Take on India’s Eastward Strategy and Its Implications

India is rising, with growing economic power and expanding interests. India is not satisfied with being a dominant power in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. It is […]

CHU Shulong

APEC, ASEAN, ASEAN + 6, BRICS, East China Sea, One Belt One Road, One Road", RCEP, SCO, South China Sea
August 24, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights

In the summer of 2016, Washington DC has been consumed with the Clinton-Trump race and the unprecedented revolt of the Republican national security establishment against their party’s presidential […]

Editorial Staff

alliance building, Cold War, rebalance, sanctions, Sea of Okhotsk, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, THAAD
August 12, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II: India’s Balance of Interest in the Asian Century

By outlining the nuances propelling India’s diplomatic and military engagements in recent weeks, this article argues that each nation in the India-US-Japan trilateral design is guided by its […]

Titli Basu

BRICS, East China Sea, India-US-Japan, Nuclear Suppliers’ Group, RIMPAC, SCO, Shangri-La Dialogue, South China Sea, UNCLOS
August 12, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (August 2016)

In late spring and early summer, the focus of the Japanese media shifted from the G7 and Obama’s visit to Hiroshima to the South China Sea ruling and […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Donald Trump, EEU-ASEAN, G7 Summit, Hashimoto-Yeltsin plan, Senkaku Islands, South China Sea, Takeshima, THAAD
August 3, 2016 Review Article
Review of Rising China’s Influence in Developing Asia by Evelyn Goh et al. (2016)

For some time China has felt itself alone among many neighbors, and its sudden leap to prominence since 2008 has heightened concern that it might use its increasing […]

Brantly Womack

ASEAN, Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank, Development, Hydropower, Monetary policy, South China Sea, UN Human Rights Council