Washington intends to cash in on the topic of alleged military-technological cooperation between Russia and the DPRK or China and the DPRK, in order to build anti-Russian and anti-Chinese sentiments in the Republic of Korea and Japan
In foreign media and academic articles, they increasingly often refer to a “Beijing-Moscow-Pyongyang axis” that is emerging in Northeast Asia (NEA). Under these circumstances, Western authors believe, the U.S. and its main Pacific allies, ...
... “aggression”
Amid the incoming waves of restrictive measures imposed against Russia, Japan’s political establishment has come forward with a number of statements that... ... more dangerous trends—ones that could disrupt the fragile balance of power in the Asia-Pacific, causing a “wave” of instability with consequences that are difficult... ... weapons as a no-go. Abe concluded that the Japanese government has repeatedly highlighted China’s growing military activity, as well as North Korea’s nuclear missile programme...
... 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... ... constraints.
Prospects for the Squad-based Indo-Pacific
The political will of the U.S., Japan, India and Australia to foster the Indo-Pacific cooperation is increasing rather... ...
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
The Coming Bipolarity and Its Implications: Views from China and Russia
At the same time, the relations between the four countries with China...
... Director of Programs, spoke about the role of sanctions in contemporary world, particularly stressing the increasingly acute U.S.–China rivalry. He noted that although the COVID-19 might have been expected to unite the nations, it only exacerbated the divide ... ... scientific centers and laboratories instead of American ones, which creates an opportunity for Russia. With the EU–China and Japan–China relations being also somewhat in jeopardy, small and medium powers in Asia and other regions may attempt to cooperate ...
...
None of this means, however, that the numerous dialogue mechanisms that exist in the Asia-Pacific region are purely imitative and decorative in nature. They perform an important... ... concepts and strategies that have emerged in Asia and are designed to counterbalance China will be seen by many smaller countries in the region as an opportunity to gain... ... around all sorts of ‘Indo-Pacific’ initiatives and platforms. The revived U.S.–Japan–Australia–India quadrilateral dialogue - no doubt aimed at new and better...
... with a potential East Asian crisis, which suggests that the issue of “rising China” is becoming an increasingly higher priority on Atlantic strategists’... ... already emerged) as such a rival.
Game plan
REUTERS/Tim Kelly
Nikolai Murashkin:
Japan–US Union and Southeast Asia: Getting
closer to cement the status quo?
The... ... which would be inevitable
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Will NATO pass the China test?
Salvatore Babones:
The Asia-Pacific: More Stable than Anyone Thinks
Will Europeans show their solidarity with...
... 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 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... ... 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 of direct investment. An influential...
... Japan’s interests and American demands, Japan-watchers will have even more reasons to 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 ...
... 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... ... help—and they would also improve the general situation on the Peninsula.
As with Japan, Moscow will understand South Korea siding with the United States rhetorically... ... economic moves of its Asian allies toward Russia. By doing so, it will help make the China-Russia link stronger.
Source:
Carnegie Moscow Center
East China Sea: Tempest Rising?
With the Asia Pacific region progressively moving to the center of global politics and economics,... ... Northeast is definitely becoming the regional centre of gravity, attracting the colliding interests of great powers including China, Japan, the U.S. and Russia. As a result, stability in North East Asia is now of global significance.
East China Sea: Tempest Rising?...
