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Resolving the China-Japan Conflict Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands

by Wada Haruki | Oct 28, 2010

On September 7 Japanese patrol boats intercepted a Chinese fishing trawler near Kubashima, one of the Senkaku [Chinese: Diaoyu] Islands in the East China Sea. After it repeatedly rammed the patrol boats in attempting to escape, the fishing boat was detained and its captain arrested and charged with interference in the execution of official duties. The incident would come to have enormous repercussions, shaking up Sino-Japanese relations.

Money Wars: Beating up on Beijing? (Part 2)

by John Isbister | Oct 27, 2010

Will Beijing continue to prop up the dollar or will it conclude that it’s just throwing good money after bad?

Money Wars: Beating up on Beijing? (Part 1)

by Conn Hallinan | Oct 27, 2010

Does China bear some responsibility for the high jobless rate and the inability of the American economy to recover from the deep recession?

Military vs. Climate Security: The 2011 Budgets Compared

by Miriam Pemberton | Oct 25, 2010

The gap between federal spending on military as opposed to climate security has narrowed since 2008. Compared to China, though, our progress is meager.

Though its military spending is not wholly transparent, it is estimated that China spends one-sixth as much as the United States does on military security, and twice as much on climate security.

Clash of the East Asian Titans

by Conn Hallinan | Oct 21, 2010

On the face of it, it is hard to explain why a minor collision between a Chinese fishing boat and a Japanese Coast Guard vessel this past September escalated to the point of Beijing and Tokyo nearly breaking off relations. But the incident mirrors policies that both nations see as vital to their self-interests. It is also connected to the aggressive U.S. push to defend its traditional power in the region.

Rekindling China-Japan Conflict: The Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands Clash

by Tanaka Sakai | Sep 29, 2010

Why did the Japan Coast Guard, on September 7th, arrest a Chinese fishing boat captain and detain his ship, setting off the most serious China-Japan conflict in decades? Investigative journalist Tanaka Sakai offers no definitive answer in the following historically-and geopolitically-informed analysis of the roots of the conflict. He does show, definitively, that the Japanese action marked a striking departure from policies that have been in effect since at least 1978 when China and Japan resumed diplomatic relations and Deng Xiaoping crafted an agreement to defer action on competing claims to the Senkaku/Diaoyutai islands.

Would a U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Drive India Into China’s Arms?

by Russ Wellen | Sep 22, 2010

Much as the United States needs to withdraw from Afghanistan, it needs to keep in mind the effects that our military standdown would have on India.

Review: ‘China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence’

by Anna Kalinina | Aug 4, 2010

“Why would China jeopardize its relationship with the United States, the former Soviet Union, Vietnam, and much of Southeast Asia to sustain the Khmer Rouge and provide hundreds of millions of dollars to postwar Cambodia?” asks Sophie Richardson in China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. An advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, Sophie Richardson not only offers an explanation of China’s foreign policy but also dispels the notion that it is irrational, inherently threatening, and malevolent. Through careful historical examination, Richardson argues that a set of beliefs, referred to as the five principles of peaceful coexistence, have been driving Chinese foreign policy since the 1954 Geneva Conference.

Review: ‘Fixing Fractured Nations’

by Greg Chaffin | Aug 2, 2010

In their book, Fixing Fractured Nations: The Challenge of Ethnic Separatism in the Asia-Pacific, editors Robert G. Wirsing and Ehsan Ahari compiled essays on several of the major ethnic conflicts that have plagued the Asian continent over the past several decades. The book provides a comprehensive study of major ethnic conflict throughout Asia with sections on Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific Islands (with a focus on Papua New Guinea). In the concluding chapter, Ehrari places each of the essays into a geopolitical context shaped by the Cold War and by 9/11.