Asia

Will Donald Trump Be A Good President?

Wallet Hub In foreign policy, Trump has decades of experience in business negotiations, with his large fortune indicative of his skills therein. Reducing America’s role internationally does not, as his critics charge, equate to isolationism, nor does it mean...

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Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies – Rethinking Asia in Transition: Security Intentions, Value Gaps, and Evolving Economic Relations

Korea Economic Institute of America Countries active in Northeast Asia differ in how they interpret China’s intentions in regard to security. Does China seek regional domination? Is it defensively resisting the aggressive designs of other states, especially the United...

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Japan-Russia Relations: Implications for the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA A breakthrough between Japan and Russia is being vigorously pursued in 2016. Sixty years after the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Moscow, there is a prospect of a peace treaty and final resolution...

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Trump and Tsai: A Sign of Things to Come?

On December 2, President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan, shattering nearly 40 years of diplomatic protocol. It has been characterized as everything from brilliant to petty and everything else in between. Since defeating Hillary Clinton...

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Media Alerts for FPRI Scholars

Jacques deLisle will appear on WHYY's Radio Times in the 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. slot (ET) on Tuesday, December 6, and Clint Watts will appear on C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Tuesday, December 6 from 8:30 a.m. to...

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Implications of Emerging Chinese Surveillance and Strike Complexes

China appears determined to assert itself throughout the Asia Pacific region and undercut United States’ alliances with potentially destabilizing effects on regional security. Its increasingly aggressive actions in the Western Pacific, coupled with rising defense spending have elevated the...

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If Trump Voters Took Any of His Promises Seriously, They’re in for a World of Surprises

The Wire In 1963, noted American historian Richard Hofstadter published a book called Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. The book had been written after Adlai Stevenson, a prominent Democratic politician, twice lost his bids for the US presidency in 1952 and...

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Review – East Asia’s Reemergence

Humanities and Social Sciences Online Philip S. Golub’s stated purpose in writing this book is to chronicle “the end of a long sequence of world history in which power and wealth were durably concentrated in the hands of a few...

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Taiwan’s Modern Political History through the Lens of Ordinary Lives

Abstract Green Island: A Novel, written by Shawna Yang Ryan, who teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is a welcome treatment of one of the least written about periods in Taiwan’s modern history. The book’s...

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Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy

Abstract In Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy, Syaru Shirley Lin presents a detailed history and analysis of Taiwan’s shifting economic policies toward China from the election of President Lee Teng-hui in...

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