Confronting Japan to Defend Against China: Senkaku as a…
The city council of Okinawa’s Ishigaki-shi approved legislation June 22 to change the district name of the Senkaku…
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The New Taiwan Strait Crisis: a Dangerous Decade Ahead
Foreign Brief analysis by Tommy Chai (May 31, 2019)
What's Happening?China’s military expansion is occurring at a…
The Four “Nots” to Correctly Interpreting…
Correctly appraising the rise of China is the sine qua non for engaging with it.In contrast to its predecessors,…
New Delhi’s Foreign Policy in the Indian Ocean
Originally published on Foreign Brief by Nicholas Burkett
What's Happening?
As part of a renewed pushback…
United States-China Rivalry Will Dominate Geopolitics in…
Great power competition between the United States and China will define the geopolitical landscape of East Asia.…
Will Russia Return the Kuril Islands to Japan?
Moscow and Tokyo are negotiating the status of the Kuril Islands, which have been an integral part of Russia for…
Global Britain: A New Vision
Since Prime Minister Theresa May and then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced in 2016 a new Global Britain…
U.K. and Japan Heighten Defense Cooperation Ahead of…
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s January 2019 visit to the United Kingdom highlights the close partnership that…
How Chinese Exceptionalism Fuels an Expansionist Foreign…
China’s approach to international relations and foreign policy has been shaped by its geopolitical history.…
Winning the LDP Election Won’t Win Shinzo Abe…
Abe's lack of accommodation for a wary Japanese public will limit his ability to push through a revision of Article…
The Goal in Korea Should be Peace and Trade—Not…
Last week, the world witnessed a first tangible step toward a peaceful, prosperous Korean peninsula.
On April 27,…
Russian Foreign Policy: Expansionism Feeds Domestic…
Russian foreign policy and domestic politics are inextricably intertwined, which means heightened tensions with the…