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March 7, 2024 Open Forum
Delving Deeper into Putin’s “Turn to the East”: Sino-Russian Asymmetry Reinterpreted and Up for Debate

A review article by Ka Ho Wong at the end of 2023 interpreted and challenged the arguments in the book, Putin’s “Turn to the East” in the Xi […]

Editorial Staff

"Turn to the East”, Eurasianism, National identity, Power asymmetry
June 25, 2019 Special Forum
Introduction

The fate of democratization in Asia in the post-Cold War era has been closely identified with four cases: Mongolia, the exemplar in inner Asia of establishing—in the shadow […]

Gilbert Rozman

democratic backsliding, democratization, Liberal international order, National identity
January 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2016)

The message in Russian media of late 2015 was pessimism about economic ties to China, but reluctance to blame the Chinese. Little is said about Russia’s relations in […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Chinese diaspora, Geopolitics, National identity, Regionalism, Yellow Peril
December 18, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario for Modi’s India “Acts East” Take Two: A Response to Manish Tewari

American officials worked closely with the previous Indian government, led by the Congress Party and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to build a wide-ranging strategic partnership after decades of […]

Daniel Twining

India-US relations, Indian soft power, Indian sovereignty, National identity
December 10, 2015 Open Forum
Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Government Responses to Student-led Protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong

With local identities increasingly consolidated, especially among young people, there have been unprecedented protests in both Taiwan and Hong Kong against their respective governments’ policies toward Beijing. Taiwan’s […]

Syaru Shirley Lin

Democracy, National identity, One Country Two Systems, Sunflower Movement, Umbrella Movement
December 10, 2015 Open Forum
India’s National Identity and Its Impact on Security Policy under Modi

The consensus on India’s national identity has been slowly fragmenting over the last twenty-five years, especially since the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 1998 […]

Deepa M. Ollapally

Economic Relations, Modi, National identity, Nationalist-globalist
November 17, 2015 Open Forum
China’s Anti-Fascist War Narrative: Seventy Years On and the War with Japan is Not Over Yet

In China, the war that ended with Japan’s surrender 70 years ago is known as the World Anti-Fascist War. Chinese communities in Melbourne and Sydney have been trying […]

John Fitzgerald

China, History, Japan, Nanjing Massacre, National identity, World Anti-Fascist War
November 13, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Scenario of China’s Fault II

In recent weeks there has been a palpable shift in the tenor of China-Japan relations. On November 1, Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Abe Shinzo met in […]

Amy King

Anti-Japanese sentiment, Commercialized media, National identity
November 13, 2015 Alternative Scenarios
Scenario of Japan’s Fault II

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’h statement on the seventieth anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the Asia-Pacific War evoked mixed reactions from commentators. Some media reports were critical of its […]

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Historical denialism, JSHTC, National identity, Strategic information diplomacy
October 15, 2015 Special Forum
Introduction to the Special Forum

Xi Jinping, indisputably, is the most consequential Chinese leader since the period of Deng Xiaoping. Much has been written, usually from a short-term perspective, about how he is […]

Editorial Staff

Century of humiliation, China Dream, international rule of law, National identity