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June 2, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2017)

Coverage of Russia in East Asia concentrated on the Belt and Road Initiative forum in mid-May with some attention given to the Korean Peninsula, as a new president […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, BRI Forum, BRIC, EEU, OBOR, Russian Far East, SCO, SREB
May 29, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (May 2017)

Park Geun-hye was removed from office on March 10 as the Constitutional Court endorsed the parliament’s impeachment, a first in its history. While there was only an acting […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Economic sanctions, Korea Passing, KORUS FTA, Moon Jae-in, THAAD, Trump-Xi Summit
May 2, 2017 Open Forum
Alliance Trilateralism at a Crossroads

South Korea is facing a nightmarish international environment, wholly unexpected as recently as 2015. Then the country was riding high in its foreign policy agenda: trustpolitik leading to […]

Editorial Staff

comfort women, Kaesong Industrial Complex, KORUS FTA, Moon Jae-in, Park Geun-hye, Sunshine Policy, THAAD, Trustpolitik
May 1, 2017 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 5, No. 2)

This has been a busy time in Washington with little clarity about US policies, as the Trump administration takes shape, Sino-US relations take center stage, and North Korea’s […]

Editorial Staff

100-day plan, Economic sanctions, Eurasian Initiative, G2, nuclear proliferation, One Belt One Road, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Trump, Trump-Xi Summit
May 1, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (April 2017)

The period February-April has witnessed an outpouring of Japanese articles on ties with the United States (as Trump sets his Asia policies and meets with Abe before meeting […]

Editorial Staff

Abe-Trump summit, comfort women, Economic sanctions, Kim Jong-nam, Moon Jae-in, Senkaku Islands, Strategic Triangle, Takeshima, THAAD, TPP, Trump-Xi Summit
April 26, 2017 National Commentaries
US-China-North Korea Triangle

The summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping was billed as the most important meeting that the new occupant of the White House has had with a foreign […]

Minxin Pei

100-day plan, Donald Trump, Economic sanctions, Mar-a-Lago, nuclear proliferation, Trump-Xi Summit, Xi Jinping
April 26, 2017 National Commentaries
China-US-Russia Triangle

After Chairman Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump met on April 6-7 in Florida’s Mar-a-lago, trilateral relations among China, the United States, and Russia became the focus of […]

Feng Shaolei

chemical weapons, Cold War, Crimea, cyber attacks, Mar-a-Lago, Munich security summit, Syria, Trump-Xi Summit, Yalta model
April 26, 2017 National Commentaries
Japan-Russia-US Triangle

With the advent of the Trump administration, would not, first, Russo-US relations improve, allowing Japan to make progress in negotiations on the Northern Territories with Russia? Until early […]

Omae Hitoshi*

1956 Japan-Soviet Union Joint Declaration, Crimea, Economic sanctions, Japan-US Security Treaty, joint economic activity, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Syria
April 17, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (April 2017)

In early 2017, Chinese experts reacted to the Trump–Xi summit and assessed the broader implications of Trump’s election for the future of the world order—which Chinese observers widely […]

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

AIIB, North Korea, OBOR, RCEP, South China Sea, THAAD, TPP, Trump-Xi Summit, US-China Comprehensive Dialogue
April 17, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Postive Scenario I

Russia until recently anticipated a rapprochement with the United States without damage to its close relations with China. Indeed, given anticipated tensions in US-China relations, the result would […]

Anna Kireeva

Balance of power, Donald Trump, EU, Hub-and-Spokes, North Korea, Russian Far East, Strategic Triangle, Syria, THAAD, Ukraine