By Jacqueline Vitello As the United States attempts to persuade China to join the West in the fight for Ukraine’s future, China continues to do what China does best: hedge its bets. Beijing has made few significant statements on the…
Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu met with Vietnamese defense minister Phung Quang Thanh in Hanoi on March 5 to discuss strengthening maritime defense ties between their two countries. Following Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida’s January visit to Manila, the Philippines…
By James Lewis This is the second of a five-part series on Asia in the age of cyber threats by CSIS’s Dr. Jim Lewis cross-posted from the Lowy Institute’s blog, The Interpreter. Part 1 is here. Cyber espionage involves the…
By Jeff Mankoff When Asia’s leaders gathered in Phnom Penh for the seventh East Asia Summit (EAS) last month, one figure was notable by his absence: Russian President Vladimir Putin. For Russia, which is struggling to be accepted as a…
By Matt Goodman Speaking to a hall full of CEOs at last year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Honolulu, President Barack Obama got his biggest applause line when he announced that he had just signed a law approving the…
By Stephen Blank Russian and Chinese spokesmen regularly profess full identity of views on Asia. But Russian activities in Southeast Asia show that Moscow plays a double game in Southeast Asia and that China knows and resents it. At ASEAN’s…
By Eddie Walsh [Editor’s Note: The following is the third post in a series on the Strategic Implications of an Open Arctic for the Pacific. You can read part one here and part two here] Norwegian Roald Amundsen is remembered…
By Eddie Walsh [Editor’s Note: The following is the second post in a series on the Strategic Implications of an Open Arctic for the Pacific. You can read part one here] Norwegian Roald Amundsen is remembered as one of the…
By Eddie Walsh [Editor’s Note: The following is the first post in a series on the Strategic Implications of an Open Arctic for the Pacific.] Norwegian Roald Amundsen is remembered as one of the world’s great explorers. His accomplishments include…
By Karl F. Inderfurth The formal document issued at last week’s high-level conference in Turkey was entitled the “Istanbul Process on Regional Security and Cooperation for a Secure and Stable Afghanistan.” The participating nations pledged they will be guided by…
