China The US and China signed the Phase One trade deal: What next? February 24, 2020 0 Image Credit: President Trump at the G20 by The White House/Flickr; Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Written by Penelope B. Prime. The US and China signed…
China The US-China trade war: Will there be a Phase Two? February 17, 2020 0 Image credit: President Trump at the G20 by The White House/Flickr; licence: Public Domain Mark 1. Written by Salvatore Babones. Shortly before the coronavirus became global…
Asia-Pacific Pyongyang’s cycle of provocation and negotiation: A dispassionate analysis October 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: Pyongyang by Jen Morgan/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Nah Liang Tuang and Shawn Ho. In a recent commentary entitled ‘Handshakes and Missiles:…
Business How the US-China trade war has fractured global value chains September 9, 2019 1 Image Credit: carlossg/Charging Bull, Wall Street Flickr; Licence: CC BY/NC/SA 2.0. Written by Jayant Menon. On 24 August 2019, US President Donald Trump announced an increase…
North Korea The Hanoi Summit: Ruined by over-ambitious hard bargaining? March 21, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. From 27–28 February 2019, US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Chairman Kim Jong-un in Vietnam's capital Hanoi…
Asia-Pacific The illusion of personal diplomacy: Can Trump outsmart Kim in Hanoi after disappointment in Singapore? February 27, 2019 0 Written by Peter J. Li. The U.S.-North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) relations are arguably the most intractable of America’s foreign…
Foreign Policy Trump and India's Foreign Policy: An Era of Uncertainty May 12, 2017 3 Written by Thorsten Wojczewski. In 2011, the Obama Administration announced its ‘pivot to Asia’ strategy, which envisioned a political, economic, and military “rebalancing” toward the…
Foreign Policy The Trump Administration and Japan May 11, 2017 0 Written by Yee-Kuang Heng. Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo moved quickly to become the first foreign leader to meet with Donald Trump in Trump Tower…
North Korea Trump and a new South Korean administration May 10, 2017 0 Written by Jeffrey Robertson. On 9 May, South Korea elected Moon Jae-in as president. Given Moon’s early and consistent lead in the polls, much has…
China What is Trump’s China Policy Framework? May 10, 2017 1 Written by Christopher Balding. One could be forgiven for trying to keep up with the wild gyrations in the evolving China strategy and how to…
