Asia’s Uncertain Future: Korea, China’s Aggressiveness, and New Leadership
This PDF is the full publication and contains all of the following sections: KEI Board of Directors KEI Advisory Council Preface Bilateral Competition and Cooperation…
Bilateral Competition and Cooperation Under New Leadership
In the first months of 2013 the leadership transitions in Northeast Asia were completed. After a year in office Kim Jong-un was consolidating his grip…
China’s National Identity and the Sino-U.S. National Identity Gap: Views from Four Countries
The countries bordering China are in the forefront in facing the challenge of a widening divide between China and the United States. Others, including those…
CJK Economic Trilateralism: The Prospects and Perils of a New FTA
After more than a decade of energetic pursuit of FTAs, a moment of decision has arrived in 2013. Three far-reaching, multilateral initiatives are simultaneously under…
Prospects and Challenges for Korean Reunification
In April 2013 North Korea was determined to show the world that it was prepared to stop at nothing in order to be accepted as…
The United States and China
2012 was a year of leadership transition in China and a presidential election in the United States. At the 18th Congress of China’s Communist Party…
China and Russia
When in November 2012 the CCP unveiled its new Political Standing Committee, with Xi Jinping at its head, Russian Prime Minister and the Chairman of…
South Korea and Japan
The relationship between South Korea and Japan resembles a seesaw or a pendulum. Ups and downs are normal. The Lee Myong-bak administration is no exception,…
South Korea and the U.S.
The U.S.-South Korea alliance has flourished under Presidents Obama and Lee Myungbak. It is difficult to find words of criticism for the alliance in either…
The Debate Inside China
In his recent work Gilbert Rozman explains the growing tensions between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and United States in terms of the symbolic…