2020JUL02

Open Forum

Forecasting Synergies in Chinese and Russia Digital Influence Operations

By Kristine Lee

Amid the global pandemic that has wreaked havoc on countries around the world, China and Russia’s digital influence campaigns are converging. …

2020JUL02

Country Reports

Country Report: South Korea (July 2020)

By Hong Sang Hwa

Foremost on the minds of South Korean media writers was the intensifying competition between the United States and China and its impact on their country. …

2020JUN26

Open Forum

Three Spikes and You Are Out? China-DPRK Relations after the Cold War and the US

By Jiang Tianjiao

Exchanges of visits between Chinese and DPRK leaders and high-level delegations have been relatively rare since the end of the Cold War. However, …

2020JUN24

Country Reports

Country Report: China (June 2020)

By Danielle F. S. Cohen (assisted by Dong Jiaxin)

In the spring of 2020, Chinese analysts began to grapple with the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the future world order, Sino–US relations, …

2020JUN06

Special Forum

Introduction

By Gilbert Rozman

From all sides one hears the same refrain: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be as great or greater than …

2020JUN06

Special Forum

Democracies with Preexisting Conditions and the Coronavirus in the Indo-Pacific

By Aurel Croissant

Around the globe, democracy is ailing. In the past 15 years or so, an increasing number of democracies …

2020JUN06

Special Forum

Soft Power and Sharp Power: The View from Australia

By John Fitzgerald

Australians of late have been shocked by the unravelling of US soft power globally and China’s offensive use …

2020JUN06

Special Forum

Hedging in Post-Pandemic Asia: What, How, and Why?

By Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

As the US-China rivalry intensifies amid the COVID-19 crisis, more observers have opined that the …

2020JUN01

Country Reports

Country Report: Japan (June 2020)

By Editorial Staff

The spring of 2020 saw a downturn in Sino-Japanese relations, which were now embroiled in the pandemic war of words, with little else on the foreign …

2020MAY25

Country Reports

Country Report: Russia (May 2020)

By Editorial Staff

One message stood apart in Russian coverage of international relations in the Indo-Pacific in the early spring of 2020: what is the impact of the …