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March 13, 2023 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (March 2023)

The winter of 2023 saw Kishida Fumio make a celebrated visit to Washington, while clarifying the new security strategy of Japan in the face of dangers from China, […]

Editorial Staff

NATO, Senkakus, trilateralism, Ukraine, US-China rivalry
March 2, 2023 China · Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2023)

Chinese analysts continue to devote a great deal of attention to Southeast Asia and South Asia. They assessed diverse conceptions of national security among various ASEAN member states. […]

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

ASEAN centrality, Quad, US-China rivalry, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam
March 2, 2023 Country Reports · South Korea
Country Report: South Korea (February 2023)

Marking the first anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, the regional division around the Korean Peninsula, the US-led alliances on one side and North Korea-China-Russia on the other, has […]

Shin Munkyoung

COVID-19, trilateral cooperation, Ukraine War, US-China rivalry, wartime forced labor
February 6, 2023 Special Forum
Introduction

What made South Korean foreign policy different in the early 2020s? The balance between conservatives and progressives was little changed; a leader from one party gave way to […]

Editorial Staff

Moon Jae-in, THAAD, Ukraine War, US-China rivalry, Yoon Suk-yeol
January 27, 2023 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (January 2023)

At the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 Russians were asking about how much room they had to maneuver in Asia given their dependence on China. […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, NATO, Ukraine, US-China rivalry
September 1, 2021 Country Reports · South Korea
Country Report: South Korea (September 2021)

With the end of his term drawing near, President Moon seemed to be in a race against the clock to revive the stalled Korea peace initiative. His August […]

Jung Seyoon

Afghanistan, Cybersecurity, OPCON transfer, Status of Force Agreement, THAAD, US-China rivalry, US-ROK alliance
August 25, 2021 Special Forum
The Search for European Strategic Thinking on Russia and China

Prevailing trends in world politics, especially the return of great-power rivalry, create an urgent need for new strategic thinking in Europe. The effort to devise European strategic thinking […]

Brian G. Carlson

Liberal international order, NATO, New Cold War, US hegemony, US-China rivalry
August 25, 2021 Special Forum
Europe’s Threat Assessments of Russia and China

European governments, NATO, the EU, and the G7 all identify China and Russia as threats; however, an analysis of threat assessments reveals a mix of unity and diversity. […]

Stephen Blank

Liberal international order, NATO, New Cold War, US hegemony, US-China rivalry
July 30, 2021 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (July 2021)

In the late spring and early summer of 2021, Russians intensely discussed China even as they reaffirmed negative assessments of Biden’s foreign policy. Some pressed for a formal […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, Joe Biden, SCO, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, US-China rivalry, Vladmir Putin, Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, Xi Jinping
July 19, 2021 Open Forum
Washington Insights Vol. 9, No. 3

All eyes were on the Biden administration in the first half of 2021. Through the winter it was ramping up through personnel decisions. From mid-March to late May […]

Editorial Staff

hegemony, Joe Biden, Liberal international order, multilateralism, US-China rivalry, Xi Jinping