AnalysisTakaichi’s Taiwan Remarks Ignite East Asia, Triggering… Juan Zhang • 11/17/2025On November 7, Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told a budget committee in the House of…
AnalysisQuiet Hedging: Indo-Pacific Middle Powers’ Strategic D… Niño Ryan Embestro • 08/12/2025“Chinese boats near the ‘Sumner’: Jolo, Jolo.” 1901. Source. ‘Chinese boats’ most likely refers to the style, not…
AnalysisTimeline of Trump and the Trump Administration’s… USCNPM Archive • 07/07/2017[timeline src=”https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZF7IJlattawvLXPPOtHsA9x6fqRPeV5rQ9rOLQ2_WOQ/pubhtml” width=”100%” height=”650″ font=”Default” lang=”en” version=”timeline3″ ]
AnalysisOne Belt One Road: International Perspectives USCNPM Archive • 02/21/2017China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, if successful, would significantly alter global trade across Eurasia. Yet given…
AnalysisStimson Center Scholar Discusses Rising Sino-Japanese… USCNPM Archive • 09/02/2016In the article, “Rising Sino-Japanese Competition in Africa,” Yun Sun, a nonresident fellow at the Global Economy and…
AnalysisToyota Says Stricter Rules In China Making Sales Targe… USCNPM Archive • 04/26/2016China’s emission and fuel economy rules are making it tougher for Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) to achieve…
AnalysisAsian Markets Higher In Thursday Trade USCNPM Archive • 04/13/2016Asian stock markets held on to gains in Thursday trading, following the positive trend from US and European…
AnalysisIs China’s ‘Assertiveness’ in the South Ch… USCNPM Archive • 04/11/2016In a number of recent discussions I’ve been a part of, “nationalism” has been repeatedly raised to describe…
AnalysisWorld Bank: East Asian Growth To Remain Over 6 pct In… USCNPM Archive • 04/11/2016Growth in developing East Asia and the Pacific is expected to remain resilient despite the slowdown in China…
AnalysisJapanese Submarine, Destroyers Arrive In Philippines F… USCNPM Archive • 04/05/2016A Maritime Self-Defense Force flotilla of three ships arrived in the Philippines early Sunday on a goodwill visit…
AnalysisBack To Normalcy: United States and Japan Under Obama USCNPM Archive • 03/24/2016America under the Obama Doctrine, of which Jeffery Goldberg has given a clear picture, appears to the Japanese…
AnalysisAmid South China Sea Spat, Japan Foreign Aid White Pap… USCNPM Archive • 03/11/2016The government renewed its commitment to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in its annual report on foreign…
AnalysisXinhua Insight: Foreign Minister Sets Out China’… USCNPM Archive • 03/09/2016China’s recent flurry of diplomatic activity has surprised some international observers and been widely welcomed around the world,…
AnalysisChina’s Foreign Minister: No Cause for Optimism… USCNPM Archive • 03/09/2016Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held his annual press conference Tuesday, on the sidelines of the National People’s…
AnalysisPresident Obama’s Asia Scorecard USCNPM Archive • 03/07/2016President Barack Obama inherited a sensible Asia policy from President George W. Bush seven years ago. In the…
AnalysisExclusive: Is US Admiral Harris Resurrecting the Quadr… USCNPM Archive • 03/07/2016Last week, in an article about the Australian defense budget hike, I mentioned, almost irrelevantly, that the Quadrilateral Security…
AnalysisUS Military Steps Up Campaign For Four Nation Quadrila… USCNPM Archive • 03/03/2016The US has stepped up its efforts to reassemble a four nation security framework in the Asian region which…
AnalysisHunt For Foreign Assets Pits Japan Inc vs China USCNPM Archive • 02/24/2016China’s desire to upgrade its slowing economy through foreign acquisitions could put it on a collision course with…
AnalysisJapan’s Foreign Minister Cancels Plans to Visit… USCNPM Archive • 02/23/2016Are Japan and China heading toward a new freeze in high-level diplomatic contacts? Tokyo’s strong response to North…
AnalysisTPP Has Slight Negative Impact on China: US Think Tank USCNPM Archive • 02/17/2016The US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which was signed by 12 countries accounting for 40 percent of the global…
AnalysisA Japan-Singapore-India Maritime Partnership USCNPM Archive • 02/12/2016The Indo-Pacific region has been fraught with maritime issues, including an array of non-traditional security threats, notably seaborne…
AnalysisChinese Way vs. U.S. Way: North Korea Issue and Its Pr… USCNPM Archive • 02/09/2016The so-called “hydrogen” bomb test conducted by North Korea recently has once again put China and the US…
AnalysisWhy a China Slowdown Will Not Hurt That Much USCNPM Archive • 01/15/2016After three decades of explosive growth, China’s economy is slowing, sending jitters across global financial markets. So if China stumbles…
