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Sook-yeon Lee argues that Indonesia serves as an ideal partner for the United States and South Korea to advance their objectives in the Indo-Pacific region and that the three countries…

Vu Le Thai Hoang and Thi Bich Ngoc Nguyen argue that the elevation of Vietnam-South Korea and US-Vietnam ties to comprehensive strategic partnerships has created new opportunities for trilateral cooperation.…

KEI’s 2023 Report on American Attitudes Toward the Korean Peninsula summarizes results from a survey commissioned by KEI and conducted by YouGov from August 22nd to August 29th, 2023. The…

By Jaeho Jeon After the U.S. presidential election, many experts were concerned about the policies of the new U.S.  administration and how they might affect East Asia and the Korean economy in particular. As the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump approaches, those concerns are growing as a result of actions taken by President-elect Trump during…

By Troy Stangarone In the Chinese zodiac, 2016 is the year of the Fire Monkey. Fire Monkeys are said to be ambitious and adventurous, as well as irritable. Despite Donald Trump’s not having been born in the year of the Monkey, looking back, his victory in the U.S. presidential election that year may yet seem…

This is the second part of a two part series looking at the impact of the KORUS FTA on jobs in the United States. Part I can be found here. By Troy Stangarone In the first part of this series, we looked at how using trade surpluses or deficits in trade in goods might provide…

By Troy Stangarone As it begins to sink in that the next U.S. president will be Donald Trump, one question that will be on the mind of those in Northeast Asia is what will Donald Trump’s North Korea policy look like? While North Korea was a more significant topic during the 2016 election than in…