2018MAY21

Country Reports

Country Report: South Korea (May 2018)

By. Eun A Jo

From March to May, South Korean news editorials continued to focus on inter-Korean and US-Korean relations, albeit with a new player in the picture: …

2018MAY21

Open Forum

From Friend to Foe-ish: Washington’s Negative Turn on the Belt and Road Initiative

By. Joel Wuthnow

Despite its status as a Pacific power, the United States has been somewhat peripheral to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since the …

2018MAY21

Open Forum

Synopsis of the 2018 Asan Plenum: “Illiberal International Order”

By. Gilbert Rozman

The agenda of the 2018 Asan Plenum included a keynote address, a book launch, four plenary sessions, and fourteen panels meeting simultaneously in groups …

2018MAY08

Open Forum

The Interference Operations from Putin's Kremlin and Xi's Communist Party: Forging a Joint Response

By. Laura Rosenberger

Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin are systematically interfering in the politics and undermining the …

2018APR30

Open Forum

Washington Insights: April 2018

By. Editorial Staff

The pace of change was overwhelming in the final weeks of winter and the first month of spring. Moon Jae-in appeared to be in the driver’s seat, …

2018APR30

Open Forum

An American Lens on China’s Interference and Influence-Building Abroad

By. Peter Mattis

Last June, Australian reporters for the Four Corners program released a bombshell documentary compiling much of the known (and some previously unknown) …

2018APR24

Special Forum

Introduction

By. Gilbert Rozman

This issue’s Special Forum consists of four articles on individual cases—New Zealand, Australia, …

2018APR24

Special Forum

New Zealand

By. Anne-Marie Brady

In March 2017, during the visit of Premier Li Keqiang to New Zealand, a senior Chinese diplomat favorably …

2018APR24

Special Forum

Australia

By. John Fitzgerald

The primary purposes of China’s influence and interference operations in Australia are to pressure …

2018APR24

Special Forum

Canada

By. Charles Burton

Canada’s economic and strategic interdependence with the United States makes Canada an important priority for …