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August 31, 2018 Special Forum
The Current Crisis in Sino-US relations: How Deep Can It Be?

Sino-US relations appear to have entered a prolonged period of acute rivalry and growing hostility. The current crisis is the result of a long process of tensions building […]

Vasily Kashin

Air-Sea Battle, Made in China 2025, South China Sea, THAAD, trade war, US-North Korea summit
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
Security II

Sino-Japan relations, as reported in the mass media over the last several weeks, seem to have positive prospects, accelerated by the fortieth anniversary of the Japan-China Treaty of […]

Yamaguchi Noboru*

“nine-dot line”, BRI, China Dream, FONOPs, South China Sea
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
August 29, 2018 Alternative Scenarios
Security I

The most recent development in Sino-Japanese relations, particularly in the security arena, suggests that bilateral relations have already hit bottom and begun to improve gradually. On June 8 […]

Yamaguchi Noboru*

"Belt and Road" Initiative, East China Sea, HA/DR, PKO, Senkaku Islands, Yasukuni Shrine
August 28, 2018 Open Forum
Washington Insights, Vol. 6, No. 4

The pace of change amid the perplexity of the Trump administration is proving overwhelming to many in DC, as elsewhere. Alarm about how badly it is handling North […]

Editorial Staff

BRI, Eurasian Economic Community, free and open Indo-Pacific, Greater Eurasia, Quad
August 23, 2018 National Commentaries
An American (Non-Trumpian) Perspective on Asian Integration

With the long-standing failure of multilateral negotiations in the World Trade Organization and the recent US retreat to economic nationalism and “America First,” Asian trade and investment liberalization […]

Claude Barfield

CPTPP, FTAs, Indo-Pacific strategy, RCEP
August 23, 2018 National Commentaries
Can Vietnam’s Doi Moi Reforms Be an Inspiration for North Korea?

North Korea’s future remains one of the biggest questions of current world politics. Not only because of the complexities related to denuclearization, but also, and potentially even more […]

Huong Le Thu

APAC, ASEAN, Doi Moi, Vietnamese Communist Party, Workers’ Party of Korea
August 23, 2018 National Commentaries
China’s Belt and Road in Southeast Asia between Boons and Bumps

Around five years since China first announced its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a grand economic vision to construct trade and infrastructure networks connecting parts of Asia, Europe, and […]

Prashanth Parameswaran

BRI, Central Route, Malacca Dilemma, South China Sea
August 21, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2018)

China’s foreign relations are under extraordinary flux. Sino-US relations are viewed as more perilous than at any time since 1989 with some even going further back to 1979 […]

Gilbert Rozman

Act East Policy, BRI, Indo-Pacific strategy, inter-Korean summit, Quad, South China Sea, THAAD