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The Pacific Forum is a non-profit, private, foreign policy research institute. The Forum's programs encompass current and emerging political, security, economic/business and ocean policy issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The Pacific Forum PacNet is a weekly publication generated from a network of policy research institutes designed to facilitate communication on timely events in the region and to serve as a vehicle for sharing research results and analyses.

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Publications:	How Trump Could ´Solve´ North Korea Why the Kim Regime Actually Needs Nuclear Weapons The August Crisis: Militarization versus Civilization on the Korean Peninsula Climate Change, Energy, and Asian Geopolitics Nuclear Waste Disposal and Fuel Leasing: A Nonproliferation Opportunity North Korea: Intra-Elite Conflict and the Relevance for Global Security The ARF Moves Forward on Cybersecurity Recalibrating US-India Ties Towards a Coherent Indo-Pacific Strategy China´s Taiwan Dilemma: Beijing must Rethink its Ideas of Nation, State and Sovereignty Japan´s Five Futures North Korea’s Weak Nuclear C2 Challenges Korean Crisis Stability A Framework for Nordpolitik following the Death of Kim Jong Nam Untying North Korean ´nots´ Set the US-Thailand Relationship Right How the US Could Leverage Myanmar Ties What Next for South Korea? Duterte’s Diplomacy: Not Hostility, but Discomfort with US Values Security in the Asia Pacific: What the Inhabitants are Saying What Will/Should Trump´s Asia Policy Look Like? The US-Philippine Alliance is Stronger than You Think Why ASEAN is here to Stay and What that Means for the US The Challenges of Building an Australia-India-US Partnership in the Indo-Pacific Trans-Boundary Water Resource Management Cooperation between the Two Koreas: Challenges and Opportunities The Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Back: Conditional Collaboration? China to Enhance its Role in Myanmar's Peace Process Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: Time for The ROK Adrift? Not Quite Critical Threats to the Internet Can India Make it without Manufacturing? Washington Debut: A Strategic Jokowi? Next Steps for Myanmar and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention China Wins the Gray Zone by Default China’s Preferred World Order: What Does China Want? America’s ‘Own Goals’ in Asia The Future of Russia-Japan Relations Why Implementing Strategic Trade Controls is in ASEAN’s Interests Reward India's Nonproliferation Good Behavior A Historic Visit to the United States China and the Changing Asian Infrastructure Bank Defense Diplomacy in East Asia: Will ASEAN Continue to be Central? Tough Times Ahead if the DPP Returns to Power? A Modest Proposal to Help ASEAN Reconcile Their Overlapping Claims in the Spratlys Xi Jinping's Foreign Policy: Image Versus Reality - Some Adjustment Required Obama's Policy on Arms Sales to Taiwan Needs Credibility and Clarity Trading away Taiwan is No Bargain for The USA Putting Air Defense Identification Zones on the Radar Expanding the ROKN's ASW Capabilities to Deal with North Korean SLBMs The 2015 US-Japan Guidelines for Defensive Cooperation China's Challenge to Pax Americana The New US Maritime Strategy: Implications for “Maritime Asia” A New Security Policy for Japan Origins of Misperceptions between China and the US Community Building: ASEAN's Millstone? China's AIIB Challenges How to Remember the Pacific War China’s Double Standard? Fighting Corruption at Home, Turning a Blind Eye Abroad (another look) Abbott, Abe, and those Submarines Terrorism, Old Grudges, and Japan’s Renewed Position in the World Steps Toward a US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Partnership EU-China Relations: Rhetoric v (a Very Different) Reality Womenomics: Solution for Japan’s Decline? A ‘PLA-N’ for Chinese Maritime Bases in the Indian Ocean Trilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Expectations and Limitations Cyber War, National Security, and Corporate Responsibility Cybersecurity Cooperation with Taiwan: An Opportunity for the US-Japan Alliance 2014: A Pivotal Year for the Global Economic Order The Security Outlook in Asia and the Pacific – Growing Turbulence or a Gathering Storm? Abe’s Foreign and Security Policy Agenda Should Taiwan Change its China Policy? Challenges Ahead for All: Ko, the DPP, the KMT, the US, and China An Ugly Win for Mr Abe Testing China’s – and the State Department’s – Nine-Dash Line Claims Beijing’s & Washington’s Dueling South China Sea Papers US-Japan Defense Cooperation Guidelines Review: US Wise to Take a Patient Approach Building Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific A Tale of Two Tales: Competing Narratives in the Asia Pacific Hastening the Fall of the Korean Wall Obama’s Rebalance to Asia in his Own Words Options for US Policy toward the South China Sea US-China Climate Deal: Less Than Meets the Eye Asia Pacific Economic Leadership: Shifting from the US to China? Premonitions of an ISIS Homecoming in Southeast Asia Xi-Abe: Will They or Won’t They? US-Japan-India Cooperation: A Trilateral Whose Time Has Come Myanmar on a Nonproliferation Roll Forward Together we go with Japan: ‘Dazzling’ US India Rapprochement for Tokyo The Great Game in Central Asia A US-India Strategic Reset: Getting Back to Basics SEACAT2014: Toward an Enhanced US-ASEAN Maritime Security Partnership Revision of Article 9 and its Implications Dueling Dinosaurs? Demographics in South Korea and Japan Freedom of Navigation and China: What Should Europe Do? The Right Order By-election Increases Pressure on President Park The Rice Paddy beyond the Sea The US and China: Sliding from Engagement to Coercive Diplomacy Why are American Investors Struggling in Mongolia? Don’t Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs A New Model of (Old) Leadership in China Dealing with America’s China Problem in Asia – Targeting China’s Vulnerabilities Fresh Opportunities for Japan-Korea Cooperation Will Japan and North Korea be Able to Solve the Abduction Issue? Indonesia’s Presidential Election: Will Democracy Survive Continuing and Expanding US-China Cooperation on Nuclear Security The Great Eurasian Rebalancing Act Cautious Optimism? What to Expect from Modi’s India Indonesia’s Japan and Collective Self-Defense: Less than Meets the Eye Watch This Space: ‘Collective Self-defense,’ Constitutional Reinterpretation, and Japan’s Security Policy China: There, I Said It (Part II) Mr Pacific: Don’t Ignore Regional Middle Powers Toward a Unified Asian Regional Order Khaan Quest 2014: A Small Exercise with Big Implications South China Sea in China’s Grand Chessboard The Real Rebalance of Power Preempting a Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: Lessons from Ukraine The “Obama Doctrine” and the Pivot Thailand's Coup: Prologue to Breaking the Impasse? China Sending Giant Oil Rig to Vietnam's EEZ: Four Strategic Mistakes Synergy or Neutrality? Time for US and Indonesia to Clarify Positions on the South China Sea Assessing President Obama’s Asia Tour Toward More Efficient Pacific Island Security Investment: The Prospects for the Future China’s Juggling Act: Balancing Stability and Territorial Claims Unintended Consequences of US Alliances in Asia Mr Obama: Focus on Alliance Management, Not Rebalancing Rhetoric A Role for Taiwan in Promoting Peace in the South China Sea Indonesia, South China Sea and the 11/10/9-dashed lines The Philippines’ South China Sea Memorial: Sailing into the Wind Russia’s Annexation of Crimea and its Implications for East Asia: A Russian Perspective The ROK-US Summit: Why Beat a Dead Horse When you Can Move Mountains? The End of Strategic Ambiguity China’s Peaceful Rise: Peace through Strength? The Cold War on the Korean Peninsula: Finding the Off Button Understand Abe, but Focus on Japan Okinawans Want Dignity, Not Just Development: Prime Minister Abe, Go to Okinawa Myanmar: Election Boycotts and Democracy? Our Sense of Uneasiness About America Japan’s Energy Crisis – A Blessing in Disguise for Diplomacy? Response to PacNet #14 “Power and Identity in Japan-South Korea Relations” Overcoming the Japan-South Korea Historical Identity Complex Political Crisis in Thailand not Unique China’s Anti-Japan Campaign Class, Economy, Monarchy: Thailand’s Multidimensional Malaise Middle-Power Cooperation between South Korea and India Nuclear-Security Lessons from Australia Myanmar: Amending the Constitution, Elections, and the United States The Yasukuni Puzzle (Re)Defining the ´New Type of Major Country Relationship´ between the United States and China A Thai Response to the Tyranny of Global Commentary Does Abe's Rightward Shift Threaten His Legacy? Rebalancing, China and Asian Dynamics - Obama's Good Fit Importance of Jeju Civilian-Military Port North Korean Regime Change From Russia without Love Why Did South Korea Need to Revise the KADIZ? New Thinking on Futenma Replacement Chinese Announcement of the Air Defense Identification Zone Complicating the Complex Impasse in Japan-Korea Relations is an Opportunity for Resolution Building Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific Pacify Tensions Before They Boil Over The China Challenge and the US-Japan Alliance Super-typhoon Haiyan: ASEAN's Katrina Moment? China's New 'State Security Committee': Questions Ahead The Path to a New Type of Great Power Relations Trying to Mitigate Japan's History Dilemma Body Language: A Sign of ROK-Japan Relations Obama’s Summit Absence Needs to Be Put in Perspective US-Japan “2+2” Statement – Breaking New Ground? South Korea and a New Nationalism in an Era of Strength and Prosperity The New Chairman of the JCS and South Korea’s Evolving Military Strategy Comparative Connections The “Power Transition”: A Spot Check An Era of the ADMM-Plus? Unique Achievements and Challenges South Korean Debates on China’s North Korea Policy: Is President Park Listening? Binding China Japan-China Maritime Confidence Building and Communications Mechanisms Don't underestimate the ADMM+ Post-Arab Spring: Political Transitions in Retreat? A Farewell to Grandiosity? Practical Cooperation and the ADMM-Plus China´s ´Surgical´ Human Rights Crackdown The United States, China, and Nuclear Arms Control: Time for a Creative Spark Surfing the Waves of Nuclear Change in Myanmar Overrated Significance of the Sino-Russia “Joint-Sea 2013” Exercise? Abenomics and Japan’s Defense Priorities China’s Great Power Mentality and Its Diplomatic Vision for the 21st Century The Asia-Pacific's “Balance of Relations” and Dangerous Choices Finding a Balance in the Indian Ocean Region Fishing Wars: Competition for South China Sea’s Resources Vietnam’s President Visiting the White House to Talk Strategy China Debates DPRK Policy US-Japan Ties: Innovate or Enervate in a Rebalanced Region China’s Shift to Toughness on Maritime Claims – One Year Later The Fragile and Vulnerable Foundation of the Sino-US Relationship Start Thinking Now About Transitional Justice in a Post-Transition North Korea Timor-Leste: A Fragile Peace Okinawa – Look to Singapore! China Plays “Her Power” Card in “Liyuan Style” Ambitious Periphery Can Strengthen the Core Taiwan and Sunnylands: The Dog That Didn’t Bark Abe’s Half Year: Maintaining Hope for Situation after Election The Obama-Xi Summit: Whither ASEAN? Will the ´Oil and Gas Revolution´ Pass China by? ´A New Type of Great-Power Relations´ and the Implications for South Korea Triangulation and Trustpolitik Always Ready, Always There: Marines and the Pacific Rebalance US-China New Pattern of Great-Power Relations & The Times, They are A-Changing China Comes Around? A ‘New Type of Great Power Relations’? Hardly Japan-India Strategic Ties: Time to Move Beyond Mere Words Sunnylands: The Obama-Xi Summit China's Missed Opportunity at the Shangri-La Dialogue Abe's Dilemmas US-China Strategic Cooperation: Progress Continues, but Disagreements Remain Why Taiwan is Needed in ICAO Malaysia Edges Toward Change, but Not Yet Xi and Abe on the Brink: Can the US Help Avert Armed Conflict? Obama-Park Summit: Building a Better Vision The US Rebalancing to Asia: Indonesia’s Maritime Dilemma Australia and Air-Sea Battle Does China Have a Strategy? China Will Not Change its Nuclear Policy The Beting Serupai Incident Disturbing Disconnects in the US-Japan Alliance Obama-Park Summit a Critical Opportunity for the US-Korea Alliance The Real Lessons from North Korea’s Ongoing Threats Will China’s Soft-Power Strategy on South Korea Succeed? Response to PacNet #20 “Reading Into South Korea’s Nuclear Debate” Understand Xi Jinping’s Renaissance, Put it in Historical Context Shale: The Wedge Between Russia and China Reading Into South Korea’s Nuclear Debate The Spartacus in China’s Wonderland Grounding of USS Guardian in Philippines: Longer-term Implications The Way of Restructuring Devil in Details of Grand Urban Plan Why was North Korea in Such a Hurry with its Missile and Nuclear Tests? Navigating US-China Relations: Complicated by China’s “Unrelenting Strategy” Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia: Keep a Cool Head and Maintain a High Profile Building Toward a Stable and Cooperative Long-term US-China Strategic Relationship South Korea’s Strengthened Deterrence Against Nuclear North China-Japan Maritime Relations: The Case for Cautious Optimism North Korean Nuclear Test: Implications for Asian Security Coercive Engagement toward North Korea The China-Japan Tango, Talks, and Time North Korea: Breaking the Cycle Sympathy for the Devil - How Best to Deal with NK Kim's Second Test is Xi's First China-Japan Relations - Now What? Comparative Connections Summaries Virtual Suggestions: Google and North Korea Not Beyond Hope: Japan and TPP Kim Jong-un's New Year's Speech; A Kinder, Gentler North Korea? Re-Thinking Futenma, Revitalizing the Alliance A Good Start for Mr Abe The Proliferation Security Initiative in ASEAN: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Publishers:

Pacific Forum

Publications:

How Trump Could ´Solve´ North Korea
Why the Kim Regime Actually Needs Nuclear Weapons
The August Crisis: Militarization versus Civilization on the Korean Peninsula
Climate Change, Energy, and Asian Geopolitics
Nuclear Waste Disposal and Fuel Leasing: A Nonproliferation Opportunity
North Korea: Intra-Elite Conflict and the Relevance for Global Security
The ARF Moves Forward on Cybersecurity
Recalibrating US-India Ties Towards a Coherent Indo-Pacific Strategy
China´s Taiwan Dilemma: Beijing must Rethink its Ideas of Nation, State and Sovereignty
Japan´s Five Futures
North Korea’s Weak Nuclear C2 Challenges Korean Crisis Stability
A Framework for Nordpolitik following the Death of Kim Jong Nam
Untying North Korean ´nots´
Set the US-Thailand Relationship Right
How the US Could Leverage Myanmar Ties
What Next for South Korea?
Duterte’s Diplomacy: Not Hostility, but Discomfort with US Values
Security in the Asia Pacific: What the Inhabitants are Saying
What Will/Should Trump´s Asia Policy Look Like?
The US-Philippine Alliance is Stronger than You Think
Why ASEAN is here to Stay and What that Means for the US
The Challenges of Building an Australia-India-US Partnership in the Indo-Pacific
Trans-Boundary Water Resource Management Cooperation between the Two Koreas: Challenges and Opportunities
The Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Back: Conditional Collaboration?
China to Enhance its Role in Myanmar's Peace Process
Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: Time for
The ROK Adrift? Not Quite
Critical Threats to the Internet
Can India Make it without Manufacturing?
Washington Debut: A Strategic Jokowi?
Next Steps for Myanmar and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
China Wins the Gray Zone by Default
China’s Preferred World Order: What Does China Want?
America’s ‘Own Goals’ in Asia
The Future of Russia-Japan Relations
Why Implementing Strategic Trade Controls is in ASEAN’s Interests
Reward India's Nonproliferation Good Behavior
A Historic Visit to the United States
China and the Changing Asian Infrastructure Bank
Defense Diplomacy in East Asia: Will ASEAN Continue to be Central?
Tough Times Ahead if the DPP Returns to Power?
A Modest Proposal to Help ASEAN Reconcile Their Overlapping Claims in the Spratlys
Xi Jinping's Foreign Policy: Image Versus Reality - Some Adjustment Required
Obama's Policy on Arms Sales to Taiwan Needs Credibility and Clarity
Trading away Taiwan is No Bargain for The USA
Putting Air Defense Identification Zones on the Radar
Expanding the ROKN's ASW Capabilities to Deal with North Korean SLBMs
The 2015 US-Japan Guidelines for Defensive Cooperation
China's Challenge to Pax Americana
The New US Maritime Strategy: Implications for “Maritime Asia”
A New Security Policy for Japan
Origins of Misperceptions between China and the US
Community Building: ASEAN's Millstone?
China's AIIB Challenges
How to Remember the Pacific War
China’s Double Standard? Fighting Corruption at Home, Turning a Blind Eye Abroad (another look)
Abbott, Abe, and those Submarines
Terrorism, Old Grudges, and Japan’s Renewed Position in the World
Steps Toward a US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Partnership
EU-China Relations: Rhetoric v (a Very Different) Reality
Womenomics: Solution for Japan’s Decline?
A ‘PLA-N’ for Chinese Maritime Bases in the Indian Ocean
Trilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Expectations and Limitations
Cyber War, National Security, and Corporate Responsibility
Cybersecurity Cooperation with Taiwan: An Opportunity for the US-Japan Alliance
2014: A Pivotal Year for the Global Economic Order
The Security Outlook in Asia and the Pacific – Growing Turbulence or a Gathering Storm?
Abe’s Foreign and Security Policy Agenda
Should Taiwan Change its China Policy?
Challenges Ahead for All: Ko, the DPP, the KMT, the US, and China
An Ugly Win for Mr Abe
Testing China’s – and the State Department’s – Nine-Dash Line Claims
Beijing’s & Washington’s Dueling South China Sea Papers
US-Japan Defense Cooperation Guidelines Review: US Wise to Take a Patient Approach
Building Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific
A Tale of Two Tales: Competing Narratives in the Asia Pacific
Hastening the Fall of the Korean Wall
Obama’s Rebalance to Asia in his Own Words
Options for US Policy toward the South China Sea
US-China Climate Deal: Less Than Meets the Eye
Asia Pacific Economic Leadership: Shifting from the US to China?
Premonitions of an ISIS Homecoming in Southeast Asia
Xi-Abe: Will They or Won’t They?
US-Japan-India Cooperation: A Trilateral Whose Time Has Come
Myanmar on a Nonproliferation Roll
Forward Together we go with Japan: ‘Dazzling’ US India Rapprochement for Tokyo
The Great Game in Central Asia
A US-India Strategic Reset: Getting Back to Basics
SEACAT2014: Toward an Enhanced US-ASEAN Maritime Security Partnership
Revision of Article 9 and its Implications
Dueling Dinosaurs? Demographics in South Korea and Japan
Freedom of Navigation and China: What Should Europe Do?
The Right Order
By-election Increases Pressure on President Park
The Rice Paddy beyond the Sea
The US and China: Sliding from Engagement to Coercive Diplomacy
Why are American Investors Struggling in Mongolia?
Don’t Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs
A New Model of (Old) Leadership in China
Dealing with America’s China Problem in Asia – Targeting China’s Vulnerabilities
Fresh Opportunities for Japan-Korea Cooperation
Will Japan and North Korea be Able to Solve the Abduction Issue?
Indonesia’s Presidential Election: Will Democracy Survive
Continuing and Expanding US-China Cooperation on Nuclear Security
The Great Eurasian Rebalancing Act
Cautious Optimism? What to Expect from Modi’s India
Indonesia’s
Japan and Collective Self-Defense: Less than Meets the Eye
Watch This Space: ‘Collective Self-defense,’ Constitutional Reinterpretation, and Japan’s Security Policy
China: There, I Said It (Part II)
Mr Pacific: Don’t Ignore Regional Middle Powers
Toward a Unified Asian Regional Order
Khaan Quest 2014: A Small Exercise with Big Implications
South China Sea in China’s Grand Chessboard
The Real Rebalance of Power
Preempting a Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: Lessons from Ukraine
The “Obama Doctrine” and the Pivot
Thailand's Coup: Prologue to Breaking the Impasse?
China Sending Giant Oil Rig to Vietnam's EEZ: Four Strategic Mistakes
Synergy or Neutrality? Time for US and Indonesia to Clarify Positions on the South China Sea
Assessing President Obama’s Asia Tour
Toward More Efficient Pacific Island Security Investment: The Prospects for the Future
China’s Juggling Act: Balancing Stability and Territorial Claims
Unintended Consequences of US Alliances in Asia
Mr Obama: Focus on Alliance Management, Not Rebalancing Rhetoric
A Role for Taiwan in Promoting Peace in the South China Sea
Indonesia, South China Sea and the 11/10/9-dashed lines
The Philippines’ South China Sea Memorial: Sailing into the Wind
Russia’s Annexation of Crimea and its Implications for East Asia: A Russian Perspective
The ROK-US Summit: Why Beat a Dead Horse When you Can Move Mountains?
The End of Strategic Ambiguity
China’s Peaceful Rise: Peace through Strength?
The Cold War on the Korean Peninsula: Finding the Off Button
Understand Abe, but Focus on Japan
Okinawans Want Dignity, Not Just Development: Prime Minister Abe, Go to Okinawa
Myanmar: Election Boycotts and Democracy?
Our Sense of Uneasiness About America
Japan’s Energy Crisis – A Blessing in Disguise for Diplomacy?
Response to PacNet #14 “Power and Identity in Japan-South Korea Relations”
Overcoming the Japan-South Korea Historical Identity Complex
Political Crisis in Thailand not Unique
China’s Anti-Japan Campaign
Class, Economy, Monarchy: Thailand’s Multidimensional Malaise
Middle-Power Cooperation between South Korea and India
Nuclear-Security Lessons from Australia
Myanmar: Amending the Constitution, Elections, and the United States
The Yasukuni Puzzle
(Re)Defining the ´New Type of Major Country Relationship´ between the United States and China
A Thai Response to the Tyranny of Global Commentary
Does Abe's Rightward Shift Threaten His Legacy?
Rebalancing, China and Asian Dynamics - Obama's Good Fit
Importance of Jeju Civilian-Military Port
North Korean Regime Change
From Russia without Love
Why Did South Korea Need to Revise the KADIZ?
New Thinking on Futenma Replacement
Chinese Announcement of the Air Defense Identification Zone
Complicating the Complex
Impasse in Japan-Korea Relations is an Opportunity for Resolution
Building Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific
Pacify Tensions Before They Boil Over
The China Challenge and the US-Japan Alliance
Super-typhoon Haiyan: ASEAN's Katrina Moment?
China's New 'State Security Committee': Questions Ahead
The Path to a New Type of Great Power Relations
Trying to Mitigate Japan's History Dilemma
Body Language: A Sign of ROK-Japan Relations
Obama’s Summit Absence Needs to Be Put in Perspective
US-Japan “2+2” Statement – Breaking New Ground?
South Korea and a New Nationalism in an Era of Strength and Prosperity
The New Chairman of the JCS and South Korea’s Evolving Military Strategy
Comparative Connections
The “Power Transition”: A Spot Check
An Era of the ADMM-Plus? Unique Achievements and Challenges
South Korean Debates on China’s North Korea Policy: Is President Park Listening?
Binding China
Japan-China Maritime Confidence Building and Communications Mechanisms
Don't underestimate the ADMM+
Post-Arab Spring: Political Transitions in Retreat?
A Farewell to Grandiosity? Practical Cooperation and the ADMM-Plus
China´s ´Surgical´ Human Rights Crackdown
The United States, China, and Nuclear Arms Control: Time for a Creative Spark
Surfing the Waves of Nuclear Change in Myanmar
Overrated Significance of the Sino-Russia “Joint-Sea 2013” Exercise?
Abenomics and Japan’s Defense Priorities
China’s Great Power Mentality and Its Diplomatic Vision for the 21st Century
The Asia-Pacific's “Balance of Relations” and Dangerous Choices
Finding a Balance in the Indian Ocean Region
Fishing Wars: Competition for South China Sea’s Resources
Vietnam’s President Visiting the White House to Talk Strategy
China Debates DPRK Policy
US-Japan Ties: Innovate or Enervate in a Rebalanced Region
China’s Shift to Toughness on Maritime Claims – One Year Later
The Fragile and Vulnerable Foundation of the Sino-US Relationship
Start Thinking Now About Transitional Justice in a Post-Transition North Korea
Timor-Leste: A Fragile Peace
Okinawa – Look to Singapore!
China Plays “Her Power” Card in “Liyuan Style”
Ambitious Periphery Can Strengthen the Core
Taiwan and Sunnylands: The Dog That Didn’t Bark
Abe’s Half Year: Maintaining Hope for Situation after Election
The Obama-Xi Summit: Whither ASEAN?
Will the ´Oil and Gas Revolution´ Pass China by?
´A New Type of Great-Power Relations´ and the Implications for South Korea
Triangulation and Trustpolitik
Always Ready, Always There: Marines and the Pacific Rebalance
US-China New Pattern of Great-Power Relations & The Times, They are A-Changing
China Comes Around?
A ‘New Type of Great Power Relations’? Hardly
Japan-India Strategic Ties: Time to Move Beyond Mere Words
Sunnylands: The Obama-Xi Summit
China's Missed Opportunity at the Shangri-La Dialogue
Abe's Dilemmas
US-China Strategic Cooperation: Progress Continues, but Disagreements Remain
Why Taiwan is Needed in ICAO
Malaysia Edges Toward Change, but Not Yet
Xi and Abe on the Brink: Can the US Help Avert Armed Conflict?
Obama-Park Summit: Building a Better Vision
The US Rebalancing to Asia: Indonesia’s Maritime Dilemma
Australia and Air-Sea Battle
Does China Have a Strategy?
China Will Not Change its Nuclear Policy
The Beting Serupai Incident
Disturbing Disconnects in the US-Japan Alliance
Obama-Park Summit a Critical Opportunity for the US-Korea Alliance
The Real Lessons from North Korea’s Ongoing Threats
Will China’s Soft-Power Strategy on South Korea Succeed?
Response to PacNet #20 “Reading Into South Korea’s Nuclear Debate”
Understand Xi Jinping’s Renaissance, Put it in Historical Context
Shale: The Wedge Between Russia and China
Reading Into South Korea’s Nuclear Debate
The Spartacus in China’s Wonderland
Grounding of USS Guardian in Philippines: Longer-term Implications
The Way of Restructuring
Devil in Details of Grand Urban Plan
Why was North Korea in Such a Hurry with its Missile and Nuclear Tests?
Navigating US-China Relations: Complicated by China’s “Unrelenting Strategy”
Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia: Keep a Cool Head and Maintain a High Profile
Building Toward a Stable and Cooperative Long-term US-China Strategic Relationship
South Korea’s Strengthened Deterrence Against Nuclear North
China-Japan Maritime Relations: The Case for Cautious Optimism
North Korean Nuclear Test: Implications for Asian Security
Coercive Engagement toward North Korea
The China-Japan Tango, Talks, and Time
North Korea: Breaking the Cycle
Sympathy for the Devil - How Best to Deal with NK
Kim's Second Test is Xi's First
China-Japan Relations - Now What?
Comparative Connections Summaries
Virtual Suggestions: Google and North Korea
Not Beyond Hope: Japan and TPP
Kim Jong-un's New Year's Speech; A Kinder, Gentler North Korea?
Re-Thinking Futenma, Revitalizing the Alliance
A Good Start for Mr Abe
The Proliferation Security Initiative in ASEAN: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty?