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A Monsoon Instead of a Gentle Breeze: Creeping Nuclearization in the Asia-Pacific

... plateau skirmish. Threshold States: Towards a Nuclear Horizon On the other hand, certain individual mid-level powers in the Asia-Pacific region also show certain behavioral similarities. The emergence of the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” with its ... ... stops in the coastal cities was resumed. In addition to truly consequential visits by Ohio-class submarines to the port of Busan, a Nuclear Consultative Group was established, primarily to regularly coordinate the details vis-à-vis deterring the North ...

26.02.2024

Spokes versus Axes: Modalities of Regional Security in Northeast Asia

... Under these circumstances, Western authors believe, the U.S. and its main Pacific allies, Japan and the Republic of Korea, should close their ranks even more. Such reasoning is constructed for some alternative reality as it suffers from a lack of causality. More so, it is absolutely unclear why the formats of cooperation between “liberal democracies” are so much better than the cooperation of “autocracies.” The TAO of security Andrey Kortunov: US — Japan — South Korea Military Cooperation ...

07.11.2023

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity: America’s Answer to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership?

... backdrop of anti-Chinese sentiments in the country. The announcement of the initiative sends a number of important strategic signals to the world. First, the United States is clearly concerned that China is “usurping” integration initiatives in the Asia-Pacific (following the withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the RCEP’s entry into force) and is willing to offer alternative scenarios for developing and building foreign economic strategies to those regional players ...

17.06.2022

Taking (Another) Turn to the East: Making Sense of Russia’s Stance in the Asia-Pacific

... military one. In the ongoing developments, China, on its part, has been struggling to balance on a fine line between avoiding accusations of directly helping Russia and sticking to its commitment that a strategic partnership presupposes. On the conceptual ... ... pressing questions in this regard is how exactly the region could benefit from a more pronounced Russia’s presence in the Asia-Pacific—and vice versa. Namely, what Moscow offer can to the regional powers and smaller states and how it can reinstate ...

02.06.2022

Assessing the Trend of the Indo-Pacific Strategy

The factors driving the Indo-Pacific strategy forward are clearly stronger than the constraints After the U.S. has put forward its Asia-Pacific strategy in 2017, many commentators believed that the concept was artificial and lacking in political foundation, concluding therefore that it would not take off. However, contrary to this prediction, the development of the Indo-Pacific strategy ...

31.05.2021

Waterworld: Moscow Betting on the South China Sea

... China believes this to be a covert operation in order to spy on the Chinese military infrastructure and ships. Ivan Timofeev: Sino-Russian Relations Are Still Not an Alliance, but They Are More Than Partnership Russia’s stake in the wrangle Located thousands of kilometers away, Russia may look like a full-fledged outsider of this dispute. Still waters run deep. Back in 2016, Vladimir Putin spoke of a “greater Eurasian partnership”. As the Russian Federation has been engaged in its pivot to Asia ...

11.05.2021

Experts Discuss the Near Future of the Asia Pacific Region

At the final event of the year dedicated to the Asia Pacific, leading Russian researchers of the field shared their assessments of the most significant trends of 2020 and tried to forecast regional developments in the upcoming year On December 24, 2020 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a webinar “Russia and the Asia Pacific region in 2021”. At the final event of the year dedicated to the Asia Pacific, leading Russian researchers of the field shared their assessments of the most...

24.12.2020

The Infrastructure Competition Between the West and China: A Co-Prosperous Future?

US-China rivalry might lead to infrastructure development and be beneficial for the global economy Since the beginning of 2020, humanity has been shadowed by the fear and panic of COVID-19, which might cause one to neglect some subtle but significant changes in the world. In November 2019, Washing, a non-member of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the China-led infrastructure project, launched its “Blue Dot Network” ( BDN ) with Australia and Japan. This project is “a multi-stakeholder initiative...

03.04.2020

How Does Canberra Implement Its Role as a Regional Power with Global Interests

Interview with Peter Tesch, Ambassador of Australia to the Russian Federation What are the features of Australia’s approach to the conception of Indo-Pacific? What perspectives does Australia see for the Quad? Is China mainly a partner or a competitor to Australia? What place should Russia take in world politics? His Excellency Mr Peter Tesch , Ambassador of Australia to the Russian Federation, shares his thoughts on these and other issues. Anton Tsvetov: Australia, Russia, and a Rules-Based Order...

29.03.2019

Prospects of Resolving the Korean Nuclear Problem

Settling the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula is a new and unique task of global significance The tensions that have surrounded the Korean Peninsula in recent years are among the principal threats to international security. The world once again started discussing the possibility of a nuclear war when Pyongyang violated the resolutions of the UN Security Council by holding another, sixth nuclear test and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2017, and when U.S. President Donald...

15.03.2019
 

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