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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-06-27)Toshihiro Menju, Managing Director of the Japan Center for International Exchange, explains why “A proactive decision on accepting immigrants could very well be a constructive solution for two of Japan’s most salient ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2012-12-04)Sasiwan Chingchit, Non-Resident WSD-Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS, explains that "Washington cannot simply rely on this feel-good moment and must invest considerable resources to assuage Thai concerns about the United ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-06-14)Shortly before the March 11 earthquake, the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) released a disturbing report chronicling the long-term deterioration of US-Japan policy dialogue and study. Starting from the ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-08-04)Perceptions often determine reality. The fact is that US meetings and statements at this year's ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) hosted in Bali—a meeting of 27 Asia-Pacific and other global foreign ministers—were more predictable ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-10-18)As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepares to host the East Asia Summit in Bali this November, attention will be focused on the two central powers: China and the United States. Amitav Arharya, Professor ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-06-21)When Indonesia took the chairmanship of ASEAN in January, it could not have asked for a more challenging task than to deal with the military clashes which have erupted between Thailand and Cambodia over a border dispute. ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-03-17)Despite being the so-called northern and southern anchors of the US alliance system in Asia, for the Cold War period Japan-Australia security relations were minimal. In contrast, over the last seven years, this bilateral ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-03-02)Blasphemy can be a deadly affair in Indonesia and Pakistan, two of Asia's largest Muslim-majority countries. Triggered by allegations of blasphemy, virulent mob attacks against those perceived to have offended Islam have ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-01-22)Katherine G. Southwick, International Law and Development Consultant recently based in the Philippines, explains that for ASEAN “Progress will be slow, but the establishment of human rights institutions is an irreversible ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-04-20)Tin Maung Maung Than, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, explains that “At this point in time it may be best for Myanmar to let personalities trump institutions, but it is imperative ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2011-11-30)While Burma’s military-backed regime should be commended for their efforts and willingness to steer the country towards democracy, the decision by the other nine countries of ASEAN to award Burma the rotating ASEAN ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-03-15)When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Cambodia in late 2010, she told senior Cambodian government officials "this does not look like the country I have been reading about in the press." Most first-time visitors ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-01-17)Sheng Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, explains that “The difference today is that when the CCP played the nationalist card in previous diplomatic disputes, Beijing ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-11-01)Rising cyber attacks against Western governments and companies along with speculation that critical infrastructure has been infiltrated has put China under suspicion as the world's leader in cyber espionage. Beijing is ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-04-05)Masako Ikegami, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, argues that “Recently, the China-North Korea ‘blood alliance,’ a concept of allies that originated during the Korean War, has been renewed, and it is ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-02-20)Yun Sun, Visiting Fellow with the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, explains that "[t]hese latest talks set a new precedent because of the central role that China played in the process and signify ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-06-06)The fourth summit between Chinese, South Korean (ROK), and Japanese leaders in Tokyo on May 21-22 reaffirmed the promise of the China-South Korea-Japan triangle as a sustainable model for Northeast Asian cooperation. Much ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2011-10-24)In the latest edition of Foreign Policy magazine, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed America's intention to “pivot” from the Middle East to Asia through “increased investment—diplomatic, economic, strategic, ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2012-11-13)Ja Ian Chong, Asia Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that "A China with a more transparent political system can help provide the foundations for more stable and sustainable regional ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2012-11-15)Maria Wey-Shen Siow, East Asia Bureau Chief of Channel NewsAsia based in Beijing, explains that "Overall, there is widespread acknowledgement of the importance and necessity of public diplomacy and soft power in explaining ...
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