December 18,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: China (December 2015)

No indications were found in Chinese publications of realist thinking about how to resolve security challenges such as the threatening North Korean military build-up or the increasingly confrontational atmosphere in the South China Sea. Explanations were missing for why China has resumed high-level meetings with Japan despite its continued demonization of that country and its […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
asian values , cjk summit , east asian community , economic relations , one belt, one road , one road" , regionalism
October 20,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: China (October 2015)

Li Jiacheng and Li Ang in the August Taipingyang Xuebao analyzed security relations between Japan and India. Viewing the two countries having a shared dream of being great powers, they cite increasingly converging interests: political, economic, and strategic. Responding to maritime security problems with China, the two states made a leap forward in relations when […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
asean , indo-japanese relations , national security , one belt one road , regionalism , south china sea
August 18,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: China (August 2015)

Chinese articles in recent months have been unambiguous in asserting Chinese positions on issues in the forefront of international relations. They offer telling insights into the thinking behind official rhetoric on India’s more energetic foreign policy, South Korea’s pursuit of middle power diplomacy as in Park’s appeal for a Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
economic relations , middle power diplomacy , national security , sino-us relations
June 23,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: China (June 2015)

In Heping yu Fazhan, no. 2, 2015, Li Hongcai and Yang Guanghai took a broad view of security in Asia, citing Xi Jinping’s May 21, 2014 statement on the contours of such thinking. Xi had called on Asian countries to discard traditional thinking and forge new types of security relations. Recognizing that security in the […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
constructivism , sco , sino-rok relations , sino-us relations
May 12,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: China (April 2015)

In Waijiao pinglun, no. 2, Xiong Lili and Pan Yu analyze Russia’s predicament in Europe, discerning elements of both continuity and discontinuity in the Ukrainian situation. In order to contain Ukraine after its decision in February 2014 to sign the agreement with the European Union to “leave Russia, enter Europe,” Russia with military force annexed […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
aiib , maritime silk road , new cold war , sino-japanese relations , us strategic encirclement
February 27,2015 Country Reports

Country Report: China (February 2015)

An article by Zhong Feiteng in Waijiao pinglun describes China’s new Asian strategy. It observes that Europe has been the geopolitical center and Asia the periphery, and Great Britain and the United States have reigned as the leaders of the international system. With China and India rising, in the 21st century Asia is becoming the […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
asean , cool japan , indo-pacific strategy , korean wave , maritime silk road , peaceful development , ukraine
December 30,2014 Country Reports

Country Report: China (December 2014)

The prevailing Chinese narrative is zero-sum, blaming Japan unsparingly and the United States, if in a less vitriolic manner, for regional fragmentation when a path to integration is within reach. Not only is there no hint of any mistakes made by China at any time since the 1949 revolution, there is no indication that compromise […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
japanese containment , new cold war , sino-rok alliance , us-rok alliance
October 29,2014 Country Reports

Country Report: China (October 2014)

Ukraine (Russia), South Korea, India and, as usual, Japan attracted keen attention for their potential to alter the geopolitical environment in Asia. Ukraine’s significance is its impact on Russian relations with both the United States and China. In the case of South Korea its tensions with Japan and forward-looking diplomacy with China led to questions […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
civilizations , hegemonism , india , look east policy , new cold war , new defense guidelines , ukraine , us-rok alliance
August 31,2014 Country Reports

Country Report: China (August 2014)

An article by Sun Ru in Zhongguo zhoubian distributed in its August 2014 posting took a close look at the US-Japan-South Korea triangle as it was strengthened by the three-way summit in March. It explained that the United States occupies the leading position in this triangle and has succeeded in temporarily getting the other two […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
arms trade , ck fta , equilibrium , hegemonic thinking , india , public relations battle , six-party talks , southeast asia , values-based diplomacy , xi-park summit
June 18,2014 Country Reports

Country Report: China (June 2014)

Regional Dynamics, the US Pivot, and Maritime Security Shi Jiazhu and Yu Lingling in Guoji guancha, No. 2, 2014 explain the US strategy in shifting the center of its global strategy to Asia and China’s response to maintain maritime security. They describe its aims as: reducing US lines for fighting a war; concentrating control over […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Dong Jiaxin*)
central asia , china’s maritime strategy , japan-north korea ties , japanese militarism , peripheral diplomacy , southeast asia , strengthening the sco , us offensive strategy