... 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 ...
... skilled labor will transect 10 jurisdictions, rendering the usual attributes of the nation state all but obsolescent
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.
The Asia Pacific region is today a key focal point for the world’s three political and economic giants: the United States, China and India. It is home to over half the world’s 7 billion people, it originates over half the global output and is where nearly half the world’s trade is generated.
But the political and security environment casts something of a shadow ...
... Europe, America and other regions.
The Shanghai Forum is co-organized by research universities from the United States, Japan, China, Singapore and Great Britain, as well as U.S. and German foundations, international corporations and think tanks.
The overall ... ... invitation of organizers of the Forum, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov made a
report
“
Cooperation for Security in Asia-Pacific
.”
Conference Programme
Andrey Kortunov: Security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
A typical discussion of the ...
... looking away from the bear, with a tiny jackal marked Philippines dancing in front of them. It illustrates the Chinese reaction to such behaviour.
Predictably, Obama raised the China issue in all the four countries he visited. Naturally, there was an anti-China undertone in all the conversations. At the same time, Obama did not raise any of the problems common to the Asia-Pacific Region. The United States is going out of its way to block the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. The United States has instead proposed its own organisation called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Again, the Asia-Pacific economic problems ...
... cash, an investor, and a market. With Russia more dependent on it, China's international influence will substantially grow.
China, however, cannot be a source of high technology for Russia, and Moscow is probing the Japanese as to how far they will be ... ... Barack Obama that, even under the current circumstances, a Japan-Russia rapprochement will actually benefit U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific.
South Korea is another potential purveyor of technology and investment to Russia—and another U.S. ally. The ...
... business-related skills, the Chinese diaspora is making key contributions to the development of Southeast Asia, assisting countries in the region in improving their economic fundamentals and their integration into global markets. The latest migration wave from China has increased the ranks of Chinese communities abroad, giving impetus to further economic activities. At the same time, the dominance of Chinese minorities in very profitable sectors and in the export of capital to the PRC is causing suspicion among ...
Australia’s Military-Political Strategy: Preparing for War and Peace
Against the backdrop of the United States preserving its status of the established superpower, and China, which is fast gaining military and political clout, the role of medium-sized nations in the Asia Pacific region is in many cases underestimated. Asia Pacific is a multi-polar environment in which the two great powers are engaged in a fierce competition ...
East China Sea: Tempest Rising?
With the Asia Pacific region progressively moving to the center of global politics and economics, the Northeast is definitely becoming the regional centre of gravity, attracting the colliding interests of great powers including ...
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Over recent years, the South China Sea has lived up to its reputation as one of the hotbeds of instability of Asia Pacific. However, in 2002 China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the
Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea
. This ...
