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March 18, 2024 Country Reports · Japan
County Report: Japan (March 2024)

Through the winter of 2024, as Kishida Fumio suffered low ratings amid an LDP funding scandal, foreign affairs were a secondary concern. End-of-year and start-of-year meetings kept relations […]

Editorial Staff

APEC summit, Belt and Road Initiative, FOIP, G7, Ukraine
May 8, 2023 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (May 2023)

The early spring of 2023 proved to be a busy time for Japanese diplomacy. After hosting Yoon Suk-yeol on a historic reconciliation visit, Kishida Fumio outlined a new […]

Editorial Staff

CPTPP, free and open Indo-Pacific, G7, Taiwan, Ukraine War
June 30, 2021 Country Reports · Japan
Country Report: Japan (June 2021)

The late spring of 2021 saw Japan solidify its alliance with the United States in a summit between Suga Yoshihide and Joe Biden and in the multilateral G7 […]

Editorial Staff

G7, multilateralism, Summit of Democracies, the Quad, US-China rivalry, Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
July 29, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (August 2020)

Japanese were asking in the late spring and early summer what the collapse of Sino-US ties means for their country and for bilateral relations with both parties. Would […]

Editorial Staff

COVID-19, free and open Indo-Pacific, G7, Hong Kong, Northern Territories, US-China trade war
July 2, 2020 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (July 2020)

Foremost on the minds of South Korean media writers was the intensifying competition between the United States and China and its impact on their country. Pressure has been […]

Sanghwa Hong

comfort women, COVID-19, Fighters for Free North Korea, G7, Inter-Korean Cooperation and Exchange Act, Kunsem, US-ROK alliance, Yoon Mi-hyang
July 2, 2018 National Commentaries
Opening a Strategic Pandora’s Jar? US-China Uncertainties and the Three Wandering Genies in Southeast Asia

Uncertainty is nothing new in US-China relations. Indeed, it is a constant feature of all big power relationships. However, recent US-China interactions under Donald Trump and Xi Jinping […]

Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

BRI, Doklam, free and open Indo-Pacific, G7, Quad, RIMPAC, SCO
March 27, 2017 Open Forum
Recent Views in Japan Concerning Sino-Russian Relations

How Japanese officials, media, and academics interpret the state of the relationship between China and Russia matters for Japan’s diplomacy with both countries and its foreign policy more […]

Yoko Hirose

8-point economic cooperation plan, Abe Shinzo, Arms sales, Balance of power, BRICS, energy, G7, India, Kuril Islands, media, NATO, Northern Territories, Putin, sanctions, SCO, Senkaku Islands, Six-Party Talks, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, Trump, Ukraine, US-Japan alliance, Vietnam, Xi Jinping
February 24, 2017 Open Forum
The Limitations of “Global Korea’s” Middle Power

2010 was a pivotal year for the Republic of Korea: as host of the G20 Leaders’ Summit—the first non-G7 and non-Western country to do so—the relatively small country […]

Balbina Y. Hwang

anti-globalization, BRICS, Cold War, G20, G7, impeachment, liberalism internationalism, middle power, Middle Power Diplomacy, MIKTA, NAPCI, nationalism, Nuclear Security Summit 2012, ODA, OECD, Park Geun-hye, peace-keeping operations, Populism, proliferation security initiative, ROK-US Alliance, Seoul G20 Summit, spheres of influence, trade liberalization, Trump
February 22, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: China (February 2017)

In late 2016-early 2017, Chinese analysts examined state-level decision-making on the Korean Peninsula. In the first batch of articles written after the Hague tribunal’s decision, they explored China’s […]

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

ASEAN, ASEAN Maritime Forum, ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN+3, community of common destiny, Duterte, East Asia Summit, energy, G7, Greater Mekong Subregion, Kuril Islands, missile tests, nationalism, Northern Territories, nuclear tests, One Belt One Road, Putin, RCEP, ROK-US Alliance, sanctions, Shinzo Abe, South China Sea, Territorial Disputes, terrorism, THAAD, trilateralism
February 10, 2017 Open Forum
Japan’s Russia Policy: Looking Back on 2016 and Ahead to 2017

Building closer relations with Russia was undoubtedly one of the main priorities of Japanese foreign policy in 2016. This was made clear by Prime Minister Abe in his […]

James D.J. Brown

1956 Joint Declaration, Abe Shinzo, Crimea, East China Sea, Eastern Economic Forum, G7, G8, Hikiwake, Kuril Islands, Northern Territories, Peace Treaty, Putin, sanctions, South China Sea, Syria, Territorial Disputes, Trump, Ukraine