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…
The View from Japan
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…
The Chinese Perspective
Despite turbulence in its bilateral relations with Japan and South Korea over the past several years, China has expressed a continuing and growing interest in…
The South Korean Perspective
During the early days of Northeast Asian economic cooperation immediately following the end of the Cold War, the China-Japan-Korea FTA (CJK FTA) was considered impossible,…