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July 25, 2014 National Commentaries
Chinese Perspective

"Sino-Russian Relations"   My View on Contemporary China-Russia Relations Since the beginning of 2014, the Ukrainian crisis has become the hottest international issue, captivating public attention from around […]

Feng Yujun*

BRICS, CICA, Gas deal, informal alliance, pivot to Asia, Ukraine
July 25, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (July 2014)

New Russian articles suggest that South Korea’s foreign policy is more intriguing than previously anticipated. Explaining that there is talk today of forging a new system of global […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Gas deal, global governance, New Cold War, New Silk Road, SCO, Sino-Russian alliance, soft integration, threat from the West, Trustpolitik, Ukraine
June 13, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2014)

With Russia’s attention having been primarily focused on the Ukrainian crisis in the past months, the coverage of Asia in Russian media and academic reports has been even […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

debt forgiveness, Gas deal, sanctions regime, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance
May 23, 2014 Topics of the Month
Multilateralism in Northeast Asia – 1

In Northeast Asia the search for multilateralism has taken an abrupt turn. In the 2000s the Six-Party Talks gave hope that North Korea would bring five other states […]

Sergey Radchenko

Central Asia, civilizational debates, comrades, natural resource appendage, polarization, Sino-Soviet rapprochement, strategic allies, Ukraine
May 16, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights: May 2014 (Part 2)

This is the second of two parts of this issue’s Washington Insights. It provides a synopsis of a panel discussion on March 29 at the annual meetings in […]

Editorial Staff

Alliance triangle, core regional triangle, North Korea diplomacy triangle, northern alliance triangle, Ukraine
April 30, 2014 Topics of the Month
Update on Japan-Russia Relations

From July to December 2013, Topics of the Month carried a series of statements by Togo Kazuhiko and rejoinders on Japan-Russia relations. In the month of April 2014 […]

Editorial Staff

Asianism, energy, Igor Sechin, Ukraine
April 30, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2014)

Chinese writings in the past two months reveal a somewhat restrained, but dark, tone about regional security dynamics, especially with regard to China-Japan and China-US relations. The nationalistic […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Central Asia, China-US-ROK triangle, Economic Interdependence, Japan-Taiwan relations, Japan's defense strategy, Korean Peninsula, new type of major power relations, Regional security framework, Taiwan, Ukraine, US threat to DPRK, Vietnam
April 11, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2014)

February and March 2014 saw Japan much more isolated than at any point since the US occupation, but the shallowness and myopia of Japan’s media coverage stood out […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, international society, Park Geun-hye, public opinion war, reparations, trilateral summit, Ukraine
April 11, 2014 Open Forum
Russo-Chinese Relations in Strategic Perspective

Russian and Chinese leaders regularly profess an ever-growing congruence of interests and ever-increasing economic, political, and even military cooperation. According to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in October 2013, […]

Stephen Blank

Arms sales, Asymmetry, energy, junior partner, Sochi Olympics, Ukraine, Ukrainian invasion, Vietnam
March 28, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2014)

Russia’s writings on Asia over the past two months included much on Russia’s pivot toward the Asia-Pacific, its relations with Japan, and its approach toward the Korean Peninsula. […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

debate on DPRK, economic integration, priority of Southeast Asia, Russia's pivot, Russian Far East development and security, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia US World domination, Ukraine