Country Report: Russia (November 2020)
Sino-US relations were foremost on Russian observers’ minds in the autumn of 2020, both before and after Joe Biden’s election victory. Anti-Chinese sentiments in the post-Soviet space drew […]
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Kazakhstan’s Ambiguous Position towards the Uyghur Cultural Genocide in China
There is a cultural genocide ongoing in the Uyghur region of China. As I detail in a recently published book, large swaths of the Uyghur population has been […]
Kazakhstan in Sino-Russian Relations: Cooperation and Competition between the EEU and BRI
On the sidelines of the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow on September 12, 2020, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart, […]
Contemplating US Policy on China and the Indo-Pacific: Some Thoughts regarding a Possible Biden Administration
By most accounts, the last four years have been something of a sea change in US foreign policy. During this time, the US has stepped back from its […]
A South Korean Perspective
South Korea places human rights as one of its main policy principles and is a member of seven international treaties. In recent months, the Moon administration has faced […]
A US Perspective
If those who predict an ideological cold war are correct, then we stand at the dawn of an open, intense clash between the United States and China over […]
Country Report: Russia (July 2020)
In the late spring and early summer of 2020, Russians were pondering the meaning of the Sino-US downward spiral. Was it good for their country? Was bipolarity replacing […]
Deciphering China’s Intentions: What Can Open Sources Tell Us?
Over the past several years, bold assertions about China’s long-range strategic goals have become common in the US public discourse. In 2015, Michael Pillsbury published his influential volume […]
A US Perspective
The New Washington Consensus Washington DC is a sharply divided city these days. A recent Pew Research Center poll concluded that Americans have increasingly embraced “conflicting partisan priorities […]
The Last Asian Frontier? A Comparison of the Economic Cooperation Agendas of China, Japan, and South Korea with Uzbekistan
China, Japan and South Korea have regarded Central Asia (CA) as a new, and perhaps the last, Asian frontier in their foreign policies after the collapse of the […]