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Last week a Chinese worker was killed and several factories were set on fire by Vietnamese protesters who reacted violently to China’s placement of rig in disputed waters in the East Asian Sea. Taiwanese factories were the prime target, and thousands of Chinese nationals were evacuated from Vietnam.
All this anecdotal evidence goes to show that, instead of the decoupling of economic and politico-security issues, they are, as suggested in the hypothesis above, very closely linked.
China’s ...
... of Sciences, and Vladimir Portyakov, Deputy Director of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
What are the results of U.S. President Obama’s Asian tour?
Gleb Ivashentsov:
Gleb Ivashentsov
Barak Obama’s Asia-Pacific tour took in four countries (Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines) and was an all-round failure in spite of all the publicity both in terms of international security and due to the international weight of the United States. The ...
... security across the entire region. The Pentagon believes that any potential conflict can only be deterred through a multilateral security architecture based on ASEAN mechanisms, with Australia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and India as key actors. Asia-Pacific countries generally seek to establish regional norms and strive for a stable military balance. However, according to US defense analysts, the key source of instability there is the North Korean nuclear programme, which serves as the main ...
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 while the mid-sized countries are striving for equality with their senior...
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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 document regulates the policy of the countries that claim the disputed territories. One of its provisions envisages the development...
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. Leslie Gelb. The Elusive Obama Doctrine. The National ...
... National Security Advisor Tom Donilon has admitted that the White House had decided that a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could help the U.S. to remedy the situation. It’s on this basis that Washington is planning to set up a free trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region.
If the TTP becomes a reality, the U.S. will account for three-fourths of the partnership’s combined GDP. This will ensure American dominance within the new economic alliance.
At the same time, the TTP is an alternative to the ...
... International Affairs Council, Dr.
Vladimir Baranovsky
, RIAC Member, RAS Full Member and Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, takes us through the nuts and bolts of Russian, Chinese and U.S. policies in the Asia-Pacific region, relations within the Russia-United States-China triangle, and the development of the Far East.
Some experts argue that Russia’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region fail to fully match either American or Chinese aspirations....
... establish more mutual confidence in each other before we can work to solve these very important global problems.
APEC 2012 in Vladivostok attracted a lot of attention globally, and is widely spoken about as an indicator of the growing importance of the Asia-Pacific region. Obama’s idea to shift U.S. foreign policy to the Asia-Pacific region is also widely known. What do you see as American foreign policy’s goals in the Asia-Pacific region in the economic, military and political spheres in ...
Interview
Interview with
Vitaly Naumkin
, RAS Corresponding Member and Director of RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, on the latest events in the Middle East, missile deployment in Turkey and the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
On November 29, the UN General Assembly granted observer status to Palestine. What does it mean for the grantee, the UN decision-taking process, the international community and the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular?
Let me begin with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian...
