Housing three of the world’s largest economies and most influential nations — China, Japan, and South Korea — as well as Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, and Taiwan — East Asia is a vital center of gravity in the Asia-Pacific. East Asia’s economic development has transformed the economic and strategic dynamic beyond Asia as well, boosting growth and trade across the globe. At the same time, festering historical disagreements, long-standing instability on the Korean Peninsula, enduring maritime disputes, and China’s growing military power raise a number of security concerns for the region and the world.
ASPI’s work on East Asia focuses on enhancing cooperation and dialogue within the region and between its countries and the United States. It also aims to develop mechanisms to enhance regional security, prosperity, and sustainability. For instance, ASPI is working to create a roadmap for linking carbon markets in China, Japan, and the South Korea to facilitate trilateral cooperation and their emissions reduction efforts. It is also engaged in a major initiative to decrease misperceptions and increase cooperation and trust between the U.S. and China. Through public events and expert commentary, ASPI also furthers understanding of the region in the rest of the world.
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articleTaylah Bland and Rachel Horne write in an op-ed in South China Morning Post about how both Beijing and Riyadh have much to gain from strengthening their partnership.
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paperExperts including Victor Cha, Melanie Hart, Ryuichi Funatsu, Mariko Togashi, and Wendy Cutler discuss strategies and tools to counter economic coercion.
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articlePhilipp Ivanov writes about the power dynamic between Beijing and Moscow in Foreign Policy.
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articleSusan Jakes writes in NPR about her meeting in 2003 with Jiang Yanyong who passed away on March 11, 2023.
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articleIn a recent op-ed in South China Morning Post, Guoguang Wu and Bates Gill share recent research by the CCA on a new faction of military-industrial technocrats in China's political system.
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articleJohanna Costigan and Lery Hiciano write in Nikkei Asia about Japan's ties with Taiwan and the securitization of the country's economic approach to China.
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articleJing Qian and Haolan Wang trace the most significant shifts and probable outcomes of this year's Two Sessions (两会) and why they matter for policy-making in China.
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articlePhilipp Ivanov writes in the Financial Review that China and the United States are the only powers outside Russia and Ukraine that can change the course of the conflict.
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articleJessica Chen Weiss writes about what the U.S. should do to deter China over Taiwan in an op-ed published in The Washington Post
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articleTaylah Bland writes about how China has capitalized on discounted coal from Russia as a consequence of the invasion of Ukraine and how it affects China's commitments to decarbonization.
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articleChristopher Johnson writes in Foreign Affairs about how Western analysts are overestimating Xi Jinping's weaknesses.
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paperIn this timely paper, Andrew Chubb writes about the Taiwan Strait crisis and the more likely contingencies of China seizing one of Taiwan's outlying islands.
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speechKevin Rudd talks about China's competing ideological and economic objectives in 2023 in his inaugural China Matters Oration co-hosted with the University of Queensland
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paperIn his most recent paper, Lyle J. Morris compares and contrasts the approach to China employed by the NSS and NDS of the Trump and Biden administrations.
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paperGuoguang Wu writes about the emergence of military-industrial technocrats among China's top leaders and what it means for the country's future.