... nationalist Internet commentaries aimed at neighbor states and the West. Other media eagerly follow suit, and the
Xianggang Zhounpinshe
, for example, instead of rebuffing allegations that space weapons have been tested, enthusiastically states that China is growing into a space power.
Consequences for Asia-Pacific
NASA
Pavel Luzin:
Public and Private Space: Russian Competitive
Opportunities
However, the broad-based and rapid advance of Chinese space weapons could shatter the rickety regional balance. Other countries face numerous risks of premeditated ...
... together many countries involved in the TPP, including Japan. In addition, since mid-2013, China has begun to display a significant interest in the TPP. The mood in the United States has shifted too. An
influential American magazine
began to argue that China’s inclusion in the TPP project is in the United States’ national interest.
The lively discussion at the last APEC session in Indonesia of the idea to create a Free Trade Area for the Asia-Pacific Region (FTAAPR) in November 2014 contrasted with the failed attempt to sign a final agreement on the TPP in Singapore in February the same year. This
mega-market
accounts for 80 percent of Japan's exports, 60 percent of imports and 70 percent ...
... setting the norms for governing the global economy. China should not be a bystander or a follower, but rather should become a participant and a leader. At the Beijing APEC forum in November 2014, participants supported the Chinese plan for setting up the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area as an alternative to the U.S.-driven Transpacific Partnership designed to bolster the American presence in Asia bypassing China.
Regional Conflicts
Reflecting the sentiments of the predominant majority of the Chinese society, Beijing's foreign policy definitely helps to strengthen stability at home.
Close economic ties are not sufficient in bringing about a good neighborhood,...
On December 10-11, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov visited Beijing to take part in an international roundtable on regional and global security sponsored by the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies and attended by key foreign policy experts, former diplomats and statesmen from China, Australia, India, Singapore, the United States, South Korea and Japan.
The participants discussed modern trends ...
... the region and drive Southeast Asia toward Indonesia and Vietnam. Accordingly, it would help to more evenly distribute influence within the ASEAN and bring about a new nonaligned bloc supported by Russia.
Viewed through the prism of the evolving U.S.-China confrontation in Asia-Pacific, Russia appears to be the world's largest
swing state
, with Vietnam playing a similar role in the regional dimension. This makes the two share a common agenda. Within this environment, Vietnam may become the first country to enter the Russian ...
... Response
www.bhdani.ba
Clarita Carlos:
Asia Pacific Security Developments: A Regional
Perspective
The PLA's modernization has become both a headache and a critical motive for the U.S. forces to step up their own upgrading, and the same is true of other Asia-Pacific countries including Japan and Vietnam. Washington began revising its force development to account for China's rise back in 2005, when the administration of George Bush Jr. decided to make the Pacific Ocean home to the
60 percent of its nuclear-powered submarines
and deploy another aircraft carrier. In 2012, President Obama announced the
pivot to Asia
...
... Ambassador in Russia LI Hui. The meeting was also attended by Mao Wang Chun, Chinese Embassy Counselor, Yu Xiaonan, Embassy First Secretary, and Lyudmila Filippova, RIAC Program Manager.
The participants emphasized the particular character of Russia-China relations and talked about the need to advance the dialogue in key areas of bilateral cooperation. Besides, the parties touched upon the most significant issues of the global agenda.
RIAC leaders informed the Chinese Embassy on their initiatives ...
... leaders, attractiveness of Russians and Russian lifestyle, account of national specifics for bettering Russian image in various Chinese social groups, as well as other issues.
The presentation was followed by a discussion of Russian soft power tools in China and Asia-Pacific, interest to Russian culture and language, Russian education, and practical proposals for making an unbiased image of Russia in Asia moderated by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev.
Dr. Vladimir Petrovsky, Academic Secretary for Public ...
... security and what operations could it undertake in the near future? Pundits have
repeatedly stressed
that the strategic milieu in Asia-Pacific is aggravating, with more and more countries acquiring the economic and defense capabilities sufficient for advancing ... ... role of force in international relations by the "Russian annexation of Crimea", disputes over islands in the South China Sea and East China Sea, and the nuclear status of North Korea.
Middle Range Power – Liberalism or Realism?
In reality,...
... conclude that Tokyo’s realism has turned from reluctant to proactive. A failure to do so, on the other hand, will bode ill for the very future of the US-Japan alliance.
Instead of a Conclusion: Whither Reluctant Realism?
Reuters
The U.S. and the Asia-Pacific
Region, Russia and China:
What Does the Future Hold for Us?
Since the Yoshida doctrine began to crumble in the early 1990s, Japanese foreign policy thinking has largely remained in a state of disarray. As LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba
pointed out
, “in the ...
