TheAsanForum

Open Forum

• The Legacy of Historical Revisionism

  Koichi Nakano*
  Abe Shinzo , coalition politics , comfort women , generational change , Koizumi Junichiro

• China’s Charm Offensive to Korea: A New Approach to Extend the Strategic Buffer

  Han Sukhee*
  Ahn Jung-geun , buffer zone , charm offensive , competition for influence , hedging

• Evolution of Sino-Russian Defense Cooperation since the Cold War

  Paul Schwartz
  arms trade , defense cooperation , joint military exercises , sea denial strategy , technology transfers

• Why Values Matter in Australia’s Relations with China

  John Fitzgerald
  Australia , Central Propaganda Bureau , Chinese-language media , immigrants , surveillance

• South Korea’s Place in China’s Foreign Policy Discourse

  Byun See-Won*
  history cooperation , new type of major power relations , peripheral diplomacy , political distrust , US-ROK alliance

• Synopsis of the Asan Plenum: “Future of History,” April 22-23, 2014

  Gilbert Rozman
  Cold War analogy , Foreign Minister Yun Byonse , hyper nationalism , mutual trust , return of history

Country Reports

Review Article

Forum Commentaries

Special Commentaries

• Sino-Russian Relations

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  US Perspective

  Jeffrey Mankoff

  anti-Western cooperation , arms sales , Central Asia , CICA , Eurasian Union
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  French Perspective

  Valerie Niquet

  balance of power , divergent threat perceptions , G2 , Putin’s visit to Japan , Russia’s double game
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  Chinese Perspective

  Feng Yujun*

  BRICS , CICA , Gas deal , informal alliance , pivot to Asia

Topics of the Month

June 2014

• Introduction to Topics of the Month

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  India’s New Leadership and East Asia – 2

  Daniel Twining

  arms purchases , exceptionalism , external balancing , India , military budgets

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  Multilateralism in Northeast Asia – 2

  Sergey Radchenko

  Central Asia , color revolutions , Eurasian Union vs. new silk road , islands to Japan , polarization vs. multilateralism

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  Multilateralism in Northeast Asia – 1

  Sergey Radchenko

  aligning New Silk Road and Eurasianism , Central Asia , civilizational debates , comrades , natural resource appendage