Category Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific, Policy & Politics

South Korea’s Impending China and Japan Policy: Two Messages to the Yoon Administration

May 11, 2022

During the 2022 South Korean presidential campaign, President Yoon Suk-yeol and his party, People Power Party, have proclaimed “strategic clarity” in foreign policy.[1] His direction shifts South Korea’s behavior toward China away from “strategic ambiguity,” which the conservatives refer to…

Asia Pacific, North America, Security & Conflict

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Clash of the Chips: A Comparison of US-China Semiconductor Production Capacities

May 7, 2022

Introduction The 2021 National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence identified artificial intelligence (AI) as an inspiring technology, one that will be the most powerful tool for future generations towards benefiting humanity.[1] It also recognized that AI-enhanced capabilities will serve as…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Europe’s Borderlands and China’s Challenge: Why War in Ukraine Matters

March 12, 2022

How are we to understand Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,[1] and how are we to respond? Invoking fabricated grievances,[2],[3] Russia on February 24, 2022 launched an all-out war against Ukraine. Friends and allies have shown solidarity, as Europe, the United States,…

Asia Pacific, Book Reviews, Governance & Law, Security & Conflict

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Review: Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (Eds.) Kashmir and the Future of South Asia

December 31, 2021

Kashmir and the Future of South Asia edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal examines the Kashmir crisis from a people-centered approach using a framework of state sovereignty and national security. The authors use the Kashmir crisis to illustrate how…

Asia Pacific, Governance & Law, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

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Towards an ASEAN Model for Cooperation in Central Asia

October 28, 2021

ASEAN provides a working framework for Central Asian states to engage in comprehensive regional cooperation to neutralize internal conflicts and survive great power competition. A New Saigon After years of fighting a rural insurgency, a rushed American withdrawal leads to…

Asia Pacific, Governance & Law

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On Its Pivotal Turning Point: The Prospect of Global Governance Forged by Chinese AI under the Rule of Law

September 26, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how states worldwide address their domestic issues. China’s prowess is growing in the AI arena, which the United States currently leads. The utility of Chinese AI technology received further validation during the COVID-19 pandemic. On…

Asia Pacific, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

The United States Needs India and Taiwan to Counterbalance China: Will the “Milk Tea Alliance” Work?

March 5, 2021

The White House declassified one of its most sensitive operational policies, the “U.S. strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific,” as part of the final maneuvers of Donald Trump’s presidency in early January 2021.[1] That decision bewildered diplomats, policymakers, and scholars at home and abroad.…

Asia Pacific, Book Reviews, Civil Society, Governance & Law, Special Content

Dapiran Observes a City on the Edge

January 21, 2021

In the waning days of Hong Kong’s 2014 student-lead Umbrella Movement, a hanging black banner read a prophetic message: We’ll Be Back. In 2019, those words came to fruition. The controversial introduction of a proposed extradition bill, allowing individuals in…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Security & Conflict

The Future Arenas of Great Power Competition

November 29, 2020

For two decades, US military leaders have focused almost entirely on training and equipping the force for counter-insurgency operations. With politicians now intent on drawing down the United States’ involvement in the Middle East, the military has shifted its focus…

Asia Pacific, Security & Conflict

Bias and the Perceived China Threat

September 3, 2020

The health of Sino-American relations will be an important bellwether of American economic and national security success in the years to come. Because China is so important to America’s future, the United States must get it right with how it…

Asia Pacific, Regional, Security & Conflict

A Rendezvous with Destiny for Two Unsinkable Aircraft Carriers

May 21, 2020

Since the Trump administration designated China a “strategic competitor,” Sri Lanka and Taiwan have increasingly become plausible geopolitical flashpoints in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. How could Taiwan and Sri Lanka dictate the post-coronavirus endgame for China and the United States?

Asia Pacific, Civil Society, Topical

Toolkit for a Successful Movement: Digital Tools in Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement

May 2, 2020

In 2014, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Taipei to protest the Cross-Strait Services Agreement—a free trade agreement between Taiwan and Beijing—believing it would give the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) too much political and economic control over the island. The protesters wielded social media and the internet to communicate, inform and mobilize. These tools did not work in a vacuum, however, and understanding their interactions with conventional media and offline associations becomes crucial. This paper demonstrates how, through one-way and interactive communications, the participants of the Sunflower Movement used digital tools to realize their demands.