Housing three of the world’s largest economies and most influential nations — China, Japan, and South Korea — as well as Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, and Taiwan — East Asia is a vital center of gravity in the Asia-Pacific. East Asia’s economic development has transformed the economic and strategic dynamic beyond Asia as well, boosting growth and trade across the globe. At the same time, festering historical disagreements, long-standing instability on the Korean Peninsula, enduring maritime disputes, and China’s growing military power raise a number of security concerns for the region and the world.
ASPI’s work on East Asia focuses on enhancing cooperation and dialogue within the region and between its countries and the United States. It also aims to develop mechanisms to enhance regional security, prosperity, and sustainability. For instance, ASPI is working to create a roadmap for linking carbon markets in China, Japan, and the South Korea to facilitate trilateral cooperation and their emissions reduction efforts. It is also engaged in a major initiative to decrease misperceptions and increase cooperation and trust between the U.S. and China. Through public events and expert commentary, ASPI also furthers understanding of the region in the rest of the world.
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In the latest "Foreign Affairs," ASPI President Kevin Rudd poses 10 questions for policymakers considering the new U.S. China strategy.
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Wendy Cutler, ASPI VP and Managing Director, and former U.S. trade negotiator, says there's an opportunity for Trump and Xi to meet on G20 sidelines to get things moving on a more constructive path.
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speechASPI President Kevin Rudd says we are at the the very beginning of the deep reappraisal of Chinese long-term strategy towards the United States.
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Lindsey Ford talks with independent advisor April Rinne about the bumpy patch she predicts for one of China's fastest growing sectors.
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speechVisiting the U.S. Naval Academy, Kevin Rudd asks 10 significant questions of policy makers in this new era of strategic competition between the U.S. and China.
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The U.S. and its allies must prevent North Korea from profiting from and legitimizing nuclear weapons, says ASPI VP Daniel Russel
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Daniel Russel says the U.S. must close gaps with China and other powers and push North Korea harder on denuclearization.
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Anubhav Gupta writes that Pakistan has confirmed the bugs in the architecture of China’s ‘Belt and Road’.
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Danny Russel says that great a U.S.-Japan alliance takes more than great personal relationships.
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Daniel Russel tells CNBC that United States and the international community should be focusing on the objectionable behavior of China, and not vilifying China with a broad brush.
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speechASPI President Kevin Rudd looks at the challenge of how to build new rules around the U.S.-China relationship in this new era of strategic competition.
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ASPI President Kevin Rudd says the period of strategic engagement between the U.S. and China is yielding to a new period of strategic competition.
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articleKevin Rudd tells us that if history is any guide, it is not a foregone conclusion that democratic capitalism will somehow inevitably prevail in the West, let alone in the East.
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articleWendy Cutler says it’s time to develop a co-existence pact between the two very different systems at play in the U.S. and China.
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interviewWendy Cutler tells us that China's not likely to make decisions that hurt China as much or more than they hurt the U.S.