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February 11, 2019 Open Forum
The Struggle to Maintain Momentum in the Australia-India Partnership

In late November 2014, in the flurry of foreign visits that marked his early months in power, Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister in almost thirty […]

Ian Hall

Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, EAS, G20, Malabar exercises, Quad, RCEP
February 7, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2019)

Sino-Russian relations remain the bedrock of Moscow’s Asia policy, as reaffirmed by when the Russian ambassador to China recounted at the start of 2019 how relations had been […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, EEU, G20, Greater Eurasia, INF Treaty, SCO, Trump-Kim summit, turn to the East
January 31, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (January 2019)

The end of 2018 and the first weeks of 2019 saw the South Korean media obsessed with North Korea and its diplomacy with the United States and China. […]

Kim Kimberly

G20, Panmunjom Declaration, Pyongyang Declaration, Trump-Kim summit, Xi-Kim summit
December 30, 2018 Open Forum
Japan’s Debates on Russia and China: What is New in the Final Months of 2018?

Japan’s relations with China and Russia have shifted in important ways in the final months of 2018, but each bilateral relationship needs to be differentiated into multiple dimensions. […]

Gilbert Rozman

December 30, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

In his own words, President Moon Jae-in’s plan “is to make enough progress by the year’s end so the [peace] process cannot be reversed,” such that “there can […]

Kathryn Botto

Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in, Pyongyang summit, Singapore Summit
December 30, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Months have passed since the Pyongyang summit—and hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough remain illusory. For a brief moment, the stalled diplomacy between Washington and Pyongyang appeared to recover; […]

Eun A Jo

Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in, Moonshine Policy, Pyongyang summit, Singapore Summit
December 27, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (December 2018)

The last part of 2018 was marked by the hopeful aftermath of the Abe-Xi summit and the new push by Abe and Putin to resolve the long-lingering dispute […]

Editorial Staff

"Belt and Road" Initiative, America First, APEC, East Asia Summit, free and open Indo-Pacific, Korea boom, Tokyo Strategy 2018
December 21, 2018 National Commentaries
A Japanese Perspective

What Do the Midterm Elections Mean for Trump’s East Asia Policies? The 2018 midterm elections have revealed that President Trump has only Plan A for his reelection campaign […]

Akimoto Satohiro

America First, free and open Indo-Pacific, Meng Wanzhou, Singapore Summit
December 21, 2018 National Commentaries
A Southeast Asian Perspective

Hedging Harder: Southeast Asia and the US-China Rivalry “I think it’s very desirable for us not to have to take sides, but the circumstances may come when ASEAN […]

Malcolm Cook

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Asia rebalance, BUILD Act, East Asia Summit, free and open Indo-Pacific, the Quad
December 21, 2018 National Commentaries
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 […]

Zack Cooper

"Belt and Road" Initiative, Meng Wanzhou, Nine-dash line, South China Sea, Tibet, Xinjiang