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April 24, 2018 Special Forum
Australia

The primary purposes of China’s influence and interference operations in Australia are to pressure business and government to accede to China’s policy demands in the region, to weaken […]

John Fitzgerald

ABC, Bob Carr, CPC, Sam Dastyari, United Front
April 24, 2018 Special Forum
Canada

Canada’s economic and strategic interdependence with the United States makes Canada an important priority for the People’s Republic of China in realizing its geopolitical goals. There is increasing […]

Charles Burton

Confucius Institutes, CPC, CSIS Act, Michael Chan, United Front
April 24, 2018 Special Forum
South Korea

Despite the announcement on October 31, 2017 to improve South Korea-Chinese bilateral relations,1 and the summit between presidents Moon Jae-in and Xi Jinping in December 2017, South Korea […]

Choi Kang*

BRI, Confucius Institutes, Qi Guohong, Sharp power, THAAD
April 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2018)

In early 2018, Chinese analysts assessed the Trump administration’s tariff policies and considered various countries’ policies toward North Korea. They considered the Trump administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, China’s South […]

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

BRI, Indo-Pacific strategy, maximum pressure, TPP, US-China trade war
April 3, 2018 Open Forum
Understanding the Challenge from China

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) characterizes China as a “revisionist power” that is “attempting to erode American security and prosperity” and “shape a world antithetical to […]

Paul Heer

Century of humiliation, China Dream, Kuomintang, May Fourth movement, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2018 with Focus on Korea)

Not only was Abe battered by a domestic scandal, his foreign policy was rocked by diplomacy, history, and trade shocks. The North Korean presence at the Winter Olympics […]

Editorial Staff

“smile diplomacy”, comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, Pyeongchang Olympics, Six-Party Talks, Yasukuni
March 19, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2018)

Three themes dominated the coverage in Russian analyses of the Asia-Pacific region: 1) China’s shift toward authoritarianism and tensions in the West over perceived Chinese protectionism; 2) aspects […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, Greater Eurasia, Russian Far East, Southern Kuril Islands, Trump-Kim summit, Xi Jinping
March 14, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2018)

Understandably, Japanese have been preoccupied with the Korean Peninsula since the start of 2018. In this Country Report, we cover issues not central to the serious matters over […]

Editorial Staff

“Year of China”, BRI, CPTPP, free and open Indo-Pacific, TPP-11
March 8, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2018)

In February and March 2018, South Korean news editorials focused on developments in US-South Korean relations and inter-Korean relations before, during, and after the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. […]

Eun A Jo

Kim Jong-chul, Kim Yo-jung, Mike Pence, North-South talks, Pyeongchang Olympics, trade war, Victor Cha
March 1, 2018 Open Forum
With Friends Like These: Japan-ROK Cooperation and US Policy

Although they share a common ally, history and politics keep Japan and South Korea at arm’s length and severely limit their defense cooperation. Since at least the mid-1990s, […]

Eric Heginbotham

comfort women, Dokdo /Takeshima, GSOMIA, Three Eyes, Yasukuni