East Asia

No, America’s Longest War Is Not Over

When the final group of American troops were flown out of the Kabul airport at the end of August 2021, President Joe Biden and...

The 72nd anniversary of founding People’s Republic of China

First: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative in supporting the “responsible global leadership model of China” at the international level in the...

China and the UN: Cooperation in 50 Years and Beyond

As an intergovernmental international organization of sovereign states established after World War II, the United Nations is viewed as a milestone in the peace...

Why is North Korea interested in Peace Talks?

The Vice Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister,...

The Demise of a French Sub Deal: Is China a Threat?

The conflict between emerging and existing powers is almost as old as time.  Labeled the Thucydides Trap, it first recounted the 5th century BC...

Japanese firms’ slow and steady exit is sounding alarm bells in Beijing

Last year in March, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had indicated Japan would initiate measures to reduce the country heavily relying on China for...

How China Exacerbates Global Fragility and What Can be Done to Bolster Democratic Resilience to Confront It

Authors: Caitlin Dearing Scott and Isabella Mekker From its declared policy of noninterference and personnel contributions to United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Missions to its purported...

Politicizing the COVID-19 pandemic and Xi Jinping’s vision to reshape the new world order

- First: The internal and external strategic objectives of Comrade Chinese President "Xi Jinping", in parallel with the international partnerships and relations of the...

The war and the treaty that proclaimed Japan’s emergence as a world power

September 5 marks 116 years since the end of the Russo-Japanese War, with the signing of the U.S.-mediated Treaty of Portsmouth. Fought in the...

Russian Far East and Arctic: Emerging Arenas for India-China Competition?

In a speech this year in Moscow, Indian Foreign Secretary highlighted the three strategic geographies- Eurasia, Indo-pacific and the Russian Far East (RFE), and...

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