China-Japan Relations: Trading Goods While Exchanging Words
In her first press briefing as Japan’s new Defense Minister, Tomomi Inada sidestepped questions over Japan’s actions in the Nanjing massacre during WWII, confirming for […] More
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The Military Escalation
The adversarial relationship between China and Japan reaches back centuries, and the memories of Japan’s imperial past continue to plague a productive and peaceful relationship. […] More
Do Economic Ties Limit the Prospect of Conflict?
In the past decade, Sino-Japanese ties have progressively deteriorated over opposing claims to islands in the East China Sea to the point where some analysts […] More
China and the U.S. Election
As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump enter the final stage of the presidential campaign, China watches their foreign policy statements closely for indications of their […] More
Protecting the Arsenal of Democracy from Insider Threat
Two summers ago, I made a $5 wager with my son that the United States would be exchanging shots in anger with China within five […] More
Spinning Silk: Asia and the GCC
In antiquity, the overland route known as the Silk Road spanned impossible distances, connecting China and the rest of Asia with far flung markets in […] More
China's Road to the Middle East
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s proposed “Silk Road” initiative – also called “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) – has promised to resurrect the ancient Eurasian trading […] More
The World is Watching: The American Election and China
Most Americans agree that the 2016 presidential election is one of the strangest in their history – and it looks like that feeling extends beyond […] More
China Supports Trump, Loses American Electorate
“Who is Trump?” asks a Chinese official close to the country’s military. “We don’t really know.” China’s leaders are perplexed by the Republican candidate for […] More
Why China Fears a Clinton Presidency
Over the last eight years, China perceived weakness and indetermination in Washington. Whether right or wrong, it used this time to aggressively promote China’s regional […] More
Trust but Verify: The United States, China & Economic Espionage
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack raised the threat of Chinese cyber-espionage in a way that the American people had never seen before. American […] More
The U.S.-China Cyber Agreement: A Good First Step
After years of the U.S. suffering losses valued in the billions of dollars due to economically-motivated cyber espionage from China, there are some signs that […] More
Global Internet Ecosystem – Urgent Action Required
Many metaphors have been applied to the Internet—information superhighway, World Wide Web, cyberspace, etc.—each evoking its different aspects. A more comprehensive view is that the […] More
Beijing and the South China Sea
Demonstrations in China against the U.S. in the wake of The Hague Court’s ruling against China in the South China Sea are reminiscent of the […] More
Why the U.S. Should Ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty
Although the United States participated in the negotiations that culminated in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which came into […] More
Philippines Must “Set the Tone” for Peaceful Resolution of China Dispute
Now that the Permanent Court of Arbitration has ruled in favor of the Philippines in its case against China over sovereignty in the South China […] More
Philippines v. China: Laying Down the Law of the Sea
As the deadline for the landmark international court ruling on the South China Sea territorial dispute draws near, a recent editorial in a Chinese state […] More
Possible Outcomes and What They Mean
Predictions are a tricky business, especially with something as complicated as the outcome of Manila’s arbitration case against Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea. […] More