Abstract In December 1949, Mao Zedong, paramount leader of the newly founded People’s Republic of China, travelled to Moscow to negotiate a military alliance with…
Country or Region: China
Abstract The Obama administration seems to have toned down its rhetoric on Asia-Pacific security, abandoning the fancy but problematic phrase ‘pivot towards Asia’ and replacing…
Abstract For the Asia-Pacific region, perhaps the greatest strategic problem of the next two decades is maintaining peace and prosperity while a second great power…
Abstract Once described as ‘as close as lips and teeth’, in recent years the relationship between China and North Korea has become more strained. Beijing…
Abstract During the Cold War, an influential group of American defence planners sought to understand Soviet defence decisions by grasping the Soviet mind, including exploring…
Abstract Just days after the March 2011 Fukushima accident, China’s State Council suspended approvals of new nuclear power plants and created a range of rigorous…
Abstract The Asia-Pacific accounts for a large and growing share of the world’s energy-demand growth. With imports rising faster than consumption, the region is rapidly…
Abstract Japan’s new National Defense Program Guidelines, issued in December 2013 alongside the country’s first-ever National Security Strategy, highlighted the danger of a destabilising arms…
Abstract When the Obama administration announced its pivot to Asia in late 2011 and early 2012, there was much consternation over the choice of words.…
Abstract Ensuring access to ever larger quantities of foreign oil has been a focus of debate in China since the late 1990s, when the country’s…
Abstract The conviction that economic ties will engender peace in Asia has been a lynchpin of the US strategic response to a rising China for…
Abstract Chinese officials and analysts regard the US pivot towards the Asia-Pacific as a strategy to contain China, despite Washington’s claim that it does not…
Abstract In recent years tensions across the Taiwan Strait have been overshadowed by fear of war on the Korean Peninsula. Commentators have even suggested that…
Abstract The ongoing reallocation of wealth and power from the West to the “rising rest” promises to produce a new pecking order over the course…
Abstract The East Asian “tribute system” from 1368 to 1841 comprised an enduring, stable, and hierarchic system, with China clearly the hegemon, in which cultural…
