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December 9, 2013 Open Forum
Washington Insights: Issue 3

With this issue we begin an addition to the Open Forum, reflecting on recent conferences and talks in Washington, DC and by high US officials on the themes […]

Editorial Staff

No. 1 ally, North Korea’s priority, principled realism, Trustpolitik, what is rebalancing, Who is No. 1
December 6, 2013 Open Forum
Synopsis: The Asan Beijing Forum 2013 “Korea and China: Next 20 Years”

The Asan Institute recently held its inaugural forum in Beijing on Sino-Korean relations: “Korea and China: Next 20 Years.” The two-day forum drew participants from South Korea, China, […]

Editorial Staff

common history textbooks, competitive coexistence, helping North Korea develop, joint pressure on Japan, unbalanced regional order, unequal trade
December 6, 2013 Open Forum
The Indo-Japanese Strategic Partnership: Asia’s Response to China’s Rise

For all the focus on China’s ascendancy, the developing strategic and economic entente between Japan and India may eventually prove to be as important in shaping Asia’s future. […]

Daniel Twining

Act East Policy, Confluence of the two seas, freedom of the seas, India, ODA, Republic Day celebrations, trilateral groupings
November 22, 2013 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (November 2013)

The Russian media kept its eye on areas around China’s borders, cautiously raising questions about clashing Russian and Chinese interests. In September the spotlight turned to Central Asia. […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Anti-Americanism, Balanced diplomacy, economic regionalism, Iron Silk Road, Moscow-Beijing axis, Multipolarity, natural gas price, Southeast Asia, Vietnam
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Russia’s China Challenge in a Changing Asia: An American Perspective

Russia’s relations with China have steadily improved for about twenty years after a brief, strong, pro-Western tilt in Russian foreign policy right after the collapse of the Soviet […]

Andrew Kuchins

Axis of necessity, complementarity, distrust, natural gas politics, oil politics, Russia’s pivot to Asia, Russian diversification in Asia, swing state
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership Cooperative Relations and the US Factor

After the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, Sino-Soviet relations became Sino-Russian relations. For more than twenty years, these relation ns have developed extremely smoothly, and […]

Li Jingjie*

long-term overlapping interests, mutual economic need, new type of bilateral relationship, Smoothly developing relations, triangularity, US rebalancing
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
Sino-Russian Competition in Mongolia

In recent years China and Russia have presented a solid façade of “strategic partnership,” with leaders emphasizing complementarity of national interests and common approaches to many international problems […]

Sergey Radchenko

Commercial competition, Elbegdorj, Enkhbayar, indirect undercutting, mining, third neighbor policy, trans-Mongolian railroad
November 22, 2013 Special Forum
China-Russia Relations in Central Asia

China-Russia relations in Central Asia are attracting increasing attention from scholars and policymakers. Most analysis thus far, however, has employed the competition framework in examining this relationship. In […]

Zhao Huasheng*

economic integration, limited competition, mutual strategic interests, natural resources, rules of the game, SCO, Silk Route Economic Zone, the US factor
November 22, 2013 National Commentaries
Southeast Asian Perspective

"China and International Law/Norms: Southeast Asian Perspective" Peaceful Development towards a Sinocentric Asia? China’s rise has resulted in a fundamental shift of the strategic balance in the world. […]

Huang Jing*

Anti-unilateralism, ASEAN, BRICS, code of conduct, East China Sea, new type of relations, Peaceful Development, Rebalancing, Sinocentric, South China Sea, Taiwan
October 7, 2013 Open Forum
Introduction to the Open Forum

In this issue of the Open Forum we present the case for China from three points of view. Ren Xiao elaborates on what China’s leaders mean by the […]

Editorial Staff

China’s rise, dichotomy of economics and security, economics vs. geopolitics, historical legacy, idealism scrutinized, militarism, New type of great power relations, US as troublemaker, US mindset