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Commentary

The North Korean Economy, October 2019: Are Sanctions Causing a More Volatile Exchange Rate?

Originally published on 38North.org.
October 25, 2019
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
Commentary

Science and Technology Education in North Korea Enters the 21st Century

North Korea is moving ahead with a comprehensive reform of its education system that puts science and technology at its center. Plans

October 21, 2019
Martyn Williams
Commentary

Peace through development: China’s experiment in Myanmar

When viewing the domestic conflicts of a sovereign nation, China sees development and stability as two mutually reinforcing concepts. Instead of focusing

October 17, 2019
Yun Sun
Commentary

Distant Thunder: The Crisis Coming in Korea

Originally published in 38North.org.
October 17, 2019
Robert Carlin
Commentary

In Search of a Syria Policy

  As US forces carry out President Trump’s order to withdraw from positions in northeastern Syria where a Turkish military intervention is

October 16, 2019
Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr.
Commentary

China walks political tightrope in Myanmar

Since 2016, when Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy came to power in Myanmar, China’s relations with the Southeast Asian

October 8, 2019
Yun Sun
Commentary

Why China is sceptical about the peace process

Since Myanmar’s current peace process began eight years ago, ethnic reconciliation has become a benchmark in evaluating progress of the Myanmar nation and

October 4, 2019
Yun Sun
Commentary

The Need for Monitoring and Evaluation in Advancing Protection of Civilians

Despite all the progress the United Nations has made on protection of civilians (POC) policy in the past twenty years, and the

October 2, 2019
Aditi Gorur
Commentary

Slower, smaller, cheaper: the reality of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor

Much has been said and written about the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor since it was formally proposed by China in November 2017 as part

September 26, 2019
Yun Sun
Commentary

Chinese Mediation on the Subcontinent?

As China expands its investments around the world, its incentives to foster and promote stability grow, as does its third-party leverage to

September 17, 2019
Hannah Haegeland
Commentary

The North Korean Economy, August 2019: Why China Will Continue to Dominate

Throughout the diplomatic process between South and North Korea and the Trump administration’s nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang, there has been an expectation

September 10, 2019
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
Commentary

The ‘loose end’ of the peace process

WITH FIGHTING in Rakhine State since January and escalating bloodshed in northern Shan State, Myanmar is enduring a level of conflict unprecedented

September 4, 2019
Yun Sun
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