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February 22, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2016)

At the end of 2015 and the start of 2016, Chinese journal articles were assessing the foreign policy of South Korea to North Korea and Japan in fast-changing […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)

Japanese expansion, Maritime Silk Road, North Korean nuclear program, US containment
February 22, 2016 Review Article
Russia’s Turn to the East

I. A. Makarov, Povorot Na Vostok: Razvitie Sibiri I Dal’nego Vostoka VUsloviakh Usileniia Aziatskogo Vektora Vneshnei Politiki Rossii [The Turn to the East: The Development of Siberia and […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Big Eurasian Community, Turn to Asia
February 4, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario (Synopsis of Japanese Sources)

Xi Jinping’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, even more than Barack Obama’s “rebalance,” is a bold reconceptualization of the economic, geopolitical, and regional identity of Asia. The positive […]

Gilbert Rozman

ASEAN, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Asian infrastructure investments, Asian Regionalism, China's hub-and-spokes system, Japan-China competition, One Belt One Road, One Road"
January 29, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
China’s New Silk Roads

Editorial Staff

January 29, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Implications for Asian Regionalism and Late Development

In September 2013, President Xi Jinping, while visiting Kazakhstan, announced the new “Silk Road Economic Belt” initiative. In October 2013, during his visit to Indonesia, Xi proposed to […]

Min Ye

Asian Regionalism, Economic Relations, New Silk Road Strategy, One Belt One Road, Trans-Pacific Partnership
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I

For a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Far East (RFE) has been caught between Moscow’s failed promises, bureaucratic barriers of a local […]

Gilbert Rozman

Economic Relations, Russian Far East, Sino-Russian Relations
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario I

The Russian Far East (RFE) constitutes both an asset and a liability for Russia. Stretching from east of Lake Baikal to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, this […]

Artyom Lukin

Economic Relations, Russian Far East
January 25, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
The Russian Far East

Editorial Staff

December 1, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario for Modi’s India “Acts East”

The domestic record of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is mixed. According to Pew, 87 percent of Indians have a favorable opinion of their prime minister, a level […]

Daniel Twining

Act East Policy, Economic Relations, One Belt One Road, Regionalism
November 17, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
As Xi Jinping’s China “Goes West,” Narendra Modi’s India “Acts East”

Editorial Staff