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June 20, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: China (June 2019)

In the spring of 2019, Chinese experts assessed China’s relations with the United States and Russia forty years after reform and opening began. They also evaluated China–Japan–South Korea […]

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

Cold War, Diaoyutai/Senkaku, Dokdo /Takeshima, freedom of navigation, South China Sea, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance
June 17, 2019 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 7, No. 3

Trade overshadows security with human rights and democratization left on the sidelines in DC gatherings in the spring of 2019. The Hanoi summit left US-North Korean ties in […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, 5G, free and open Indo-Pacific, G20, Hanoi summit, Huawei, THAAD, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance
May 15, 2019 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 7, No. 2

Exchanges in DC are increasingly torn between a focus on bilateral relations—in particular, US relations with China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan—or on trilateral relations. If the […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Hanoi summit, Singapore Summit, trilateralism, US-Japan alliance, US-ROK alliance
February 19, 2019 Special Forum
Introduction

As the 2010s draw to a close, the special character of the Sino-Russian-US great power triangle is on vivid display and hints can be detected that its nature […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, America First, China Dream, Donald Trump, Sino-Russian alliance, US-Japan alliance, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping
September 4, 2018 Open Forum
Can China Seduce Japan? 14 Reasons for Its Overtures in 2018

As Sino-US relations have deteriorated in 2018, Beijing has looked elsewhere in Asia for closer ties: to the Korean Peninsula, where Kim Jong-un was desperate to improve relations […]

Gilbert Rozman

BRI, Confucius Institutes, South China Sea, trade war, US-Japan alliance
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Diplomacy II

Reviewing the most recent developments in security and military cooperation as well as diplomacy over the Korean Peninsula and the rise of China, this second view of the […]

Tanaka Hitoshi*

HA/DR, Japan-China Maritime and Aerial Communication Mechanism, Singapore Summit, US-Japan alliance
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Diplomacy I

Future Prospects for Japan-China Cooperation This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Over these four decades, Japan-China relations have gone through […]

Tanaka Hitoshi*

East China Sea, Japan-China-South Korea trilateral summit, Senkaku Islands, TPP-11, US-DPRK summit, US-Japan alliance
June 30, 2018 Special Forum · Uncategorized
US-China Relations

The first handshake between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in front of a backdrop of the American and North Korean flags was surreal in […]

Patricia M. Kim

Singapore Statement, Six-Party Talks, THAAD, Trump-Kim summit, US-Japan alliance, Xi-Kim summit
June 29, 2018 Special Forum
US-Japan Relations

In the aftermath of the June 8-9 G7 summit in Charlevoix, Canada, which collapsed under the weight of President Donald Trump’s tariff tantrum, a photograph circulated—courtesy of German […]

Brad Glosserman

CPTPP, free and open Indo-Pacific, Japan passing, Singapore Statement, Trump-Kim summit, US-Japan alliance
December 23, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (December 2017)

In late 2017, Chinese analysts explored Japan’s response to the North Korean nuclear crisis, its warmer relations with Russia, and conciliatory economic cooperation with the United States. They […]

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

America First, Donglang dispute, Malabar exercises, middle power, THAAD, US-Japan alliance