Earlier this month, the Pentagon endorsed a plan to invest 7.5 billion USD to strengthen U.S. presence in the Asia-Pacific region over the next five years. The plan, namely the Asia Pacific Stability Initiative, was first proposed by Senator John McCai …
Watch the full event below or click here. Under Xi Jinping, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the dominant state in Asia. By funding and building roads, railways, ports, and power lines – a New Silk Road across Eurasia and …
The conventional wisdom on U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s China policy is that his preferred transactional approach, aimed at making deals with China, will not work. The reason behind this judgment is that the fundamental differences between the Unit …
Watch the event video below or click here. The U.S.-China trade and investment relationship has arguably never been more important — or more precarious. Did the April meeting between President Trump and President Xi put it on firmer footing? The Stimso …
Watch the event video below or click here. From the abandonment of the collective leadership to an assertive foreign policy, Xi Jinping’s domestic and foreign policies have marked an interesting deviation, if not complete severance, from the traditions …
As Tsai Ing-wen continued to struggle with implementation of her ambitious reform programs—losing public support in the process—Beijing maintained pressure to accept the “1992 Consensus” or some other expression of “one China.” Everything became substa …
Watch the event video below or click here. Questions linger about the U.S.’s approach to China and the Asia-Pacific region under the new Trump administration. Looking beyond the recent sharp rhetoric between Washington and Beijing, what substantive act …
Published January 25, 2017 / Held February 8, 2017
Rarely has any issue been more polarising than the assessment of Sino-Russia relations in recent years. Analysts and observers are either convinced of another emerging Sino-Russia alliance against the West, or dismissive of any meaningful, sustainable …
Watch the event video below or click here. A discussion on the state of Pakistan-China relations with Hussain Nadim, senior Pakistan expert at United States Institute for Peace, and Yun Sun, Senior Associate with the East Asia progr …
Published November 16, 2016 / Held November 29, 2016
As Tsai Ing-wen strives to jumpstart her priority domestic programs, she is finding that governance is hard. Not only are the economic and social challenges she faces inherently daunting, so is keeping her own troops in line, not to mention coping with …
Despite the seeming ambiguities and contradictions of China’s policy toward the North and South Koreas, especially under the Xi Jinping administration and in light of Pyongyang’s latest nuclear developments, China’s cost-benefit analysis on the Korean …
Watch the event videos by clicking the links below. Please join the East Asia Program for panel discussions on China’s policy toward the Korean Peninsula under the Xi Jinping administration. Despite the seeming ambiguities and contradictions of China’s …
Below is an excerpt from “Chinese Attitudes toward Korean Unification,” written by Bonnie S. Glaser and Yun Sun, from the International Journal of Korean Unification Studies 24:2 (2015). A core component of South Korean President Park Geun-h …
Although the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) is only scheduled to name its presidential candidate in mid-June, the campaign has been well under way since late spring. While the KMT has sought to keep public attention focused on cro …
If Beijing was surprised by the extent of public support in Taiwan for the “Sunflower Movement” last spring,1 along with everyone else they were stunned by the extent of the KMT debacle in the November 29, 2014, “9-in-1” local elections. For the Mainla …
Alan D. Romberg contributed the following analysis as chapter twelve of “Assessing the Threat”, a book published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Security architecture” is too grand a term for what currently exists in East Asia and w …
During the past decade, China’s rapidly growing presence in Africa has increasingly become a topic for debate in the international media and among economists and policy analysts. While China’s unique economic approach to Africa meets the African countr …
This is an excerpt from “China and the Evolving Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,” in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: China as a Responsible Stakeholder? (Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, 2015) Since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the es …
Since 2011, Myanmar has made substantial progress in its democratic process. Among the key tasks for the political reform, reconciliation with the country’s multiple armed ethnic groups has been the most challenging. The lack of trust, goodwill and wil …
Published January 17, 2014 / Held January 17, 2014
This paper was originally prepared for a report presented at the Center for Naval Analyses April 11 workshop. This workshop report presents an overview of the issues discussed and the papers contributed by individual panelists who are recognized expert …
The increasing role of China in Africa may have some negative consequences for the African people with China’s “no strings attached” approach to investment and foreign assistance to the region. Yun Sun outlines areas for increased cooperation between t …
Highlights Regardless of whether there will be a fundamental/philosophical change to China’s foreign strategy, it is highly unlikely that China will pursue any major foreign policy change toward Africa. At the July 2012 FOCAC meeting, President Jacob Z …
China occupies a central position in addressing many of the challenges associated with North Korea. Politically, China shields North Korea from international pressure and crippling sanctions for its nuclear program and military provocations. Economical …
Tensions in the oil-rich and strategically important South China Sea escalated in 2011, raising serious concerns about the danger of military conflicts between China and other claimant countries. Not only did China’s increased presence in the Spratly I …
By Alan Romberg This paper was prepared for a Track II dialogue on reducing strategic mistrust between the United States and China sponsored by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Tsinghua University. The paper will appear, along with …
The Challenge Simultaneously nurturing bilateral relations with a rising China while reinvigorating relations with Japan and Korea—key American allies in Northeast Asia—will be a delicate but urgent challenge for the Obama Administration. Each relation …
On September 10 2004, a conference paper Political and Strategic Implications for China’s Growth, written by Alan D. Romberg, was delivered on his behalf at the conference “China’s Growth and the World Economy”, sponsored by People’s University of Chin …
Commercial Globalization and the international distribution of high-tech R&D have aided China’s efforts to develop its commercial industry. Increasingly, foreign investors are competing with local high-tech enterprises for market share in the …
There is a growing consensus in the United States and among its chief European allies that some level of missile defense protection is warranted if it proves technically and financially feasible, but the prospect of missile defense constitutes a wild c …
China’s rise will pose fundamental challenges to the United States and Europe, both separately and in their political relations with one another. Although U.S. and European leaders for the foreseeable future will remain focused on more pressing n …