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August 3, 2016 National Commentaries
Implementing Sanctions against North Korea：A US Perspective

By all accounts, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2270 represents a significant and unexpected advance of the authority given to the UN and member states to pursue […]

James Walsh

Resolution 2270, South China Sea, THAAD, UN Panel of Experts
July 27, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2016)

Three international thunderbolts of late June and early July drew intense responses in the South Korean media. The decision to deploy THAAD in South Korea was recognized as […]

Editorial Staff

Cold War, Russia-China-North Korea, South China Sea, THAAD, US-Japan-South Korea
July 27, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II: Japan-US-India Security Cooperation Has Progressed “Dramatically”

The Japan-US-India cooperation has progressed dramatically over the last two months (June-July 2016). Three developments, in particular, have highlighted an advance in the trilateral security cooperation. First, defense […]

Nagao Satoru*

Asian Security Summit, Indian Ocean, Malabar maritime exercises, Shangri-La Dialogue, South China Sea, UNCLOS
June 30, 2016 Special Forum
Is the EU on the Same Page as the United States on China?

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” Winston Churchill The European Union needs China, first and foremost, as an […]

Theresa Fallon

16 + 1, AIIB, Arbitration Tribunal, Checkbook diplomacy, EU-China Investment Agreement, Market Economy Status, MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH, 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
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
Introduction to Special Forum

The relationship between the United States and Japan has changed under Prime Minister Abe and President Obama not only becoming more robust bilaterally, but acquiring new significance in […]

Editorial Staff

Japan-US relations, South China Sea, trilateralism
April 28, 2016 National Commentaries
A View from the United States

Inadvertent escalation or Chinese expansion? Two very different fears compete for attention in the proliferating discourse on the risk-rich imbroglio  of the South China Sea. Some fear an […]

Donald K. Emmerson

Nine-dash line, Pax Sinica, South China Sea, sovereignty, UNCLOS
April 19, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2016)

In early 2016, Chinese articles assessed Japanese relations with Myanmar, ASEAN’s South China Sea policy, and China–ASEAN relations. They considered South Korea’s new policies toward Japan and the […]

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

Arctic policy, ASEAN-Chinan relations, Japan-Myanmar relations, Maritime security, NPT, South China Sea
April 14, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2016)

In the late winter of 2016, the Japanese mainstream was pleased with US foreign policy, if nervous about campaign rhetoric: reassured about triangularity opposed to North Korea, but […]

Editorial Staff

December 28 Japan-ROK agreement, History textbooks, JICA, South China Sea, Takeshima, Trump
April 7, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 4, No. 2)

Sino-US Relations While many are discussing the dominance of competition over cooperation in Sino-US relations, one DC presentation argued that both threads are intensifying under the strong leadership […]

Editorial Staff

Eurasian Five, Japanese nationalism, Obama-Xi Summit, Russian Far East, South China Sea