Aug 18, 2014

Purge of Jang Song-Taek and its Impact on China’s Policy Toward North Korea

By Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Zhu Feng

On December 12 Jang Song-taek, largely considered the second most powerful man in North Korea and a well-known “China hand,” was executed for treason and...

Sep 3, 2013

Asia’s Uncertain Future: Korea, China’s Aggressiveness, and New Leadership

By Gilbert Rozman

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...

Sep 3, 2013

Bilateral Competition and Cooperation Under New Leadership

By Cheol Hee Park, Robert Sutter, Scott Snyder, Sergey Radchenko

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...

Sep 3, 2013

China’s National Identity and the Sino-U.S. National Identity Gap: Views from Four Countries

By Gilbert Rozman, Ming Wan, See-Won Byun, William Callahan

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...

Sep 3, 2013

CJK Economic Trilateralism: The Prospects and Perils of a New FTA

By Chang Jae Lee, Claude Barfield, Scott Harold, T.J. Pempel

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...

Sep 3, 2013

Prospects and Challenges for Korean Reunification

By Dr. Abraham Kim, Dr. John Park, Ho-Yeol Yoo

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...

Sep 3, 2013

The United States and China

By Robert Sutter

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...

Sep 3, 2013

China and Russia

By Sergey Radchenko

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...

Sep 3, 2013

South Korea and Japan

By Cheol Hee Park

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,...

Sep 3, 2013

South Korea and the U.S.

By Scott Snyder

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...

Sep 3, 2013

The Debate Inside China

By William Callahan

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...

Sep 3, 2013

The View from Japan

By Ming Wan

How do the Japanese view the Sino-U.S. national identity gap? Their views are naturally informed by their own national identities and their national identity gaps...