Asia & Oceania

India is regarded as the “weak” link in the Quad—an informal strategic group with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region—largely because its policy actions (reluctance to embrace traditional security issues…

Recent trends in Sino-American relations can be explained through the framework of threat perception. However, we should view threat perception through a hybrid of rationalist and non-rationalist components to explain…

Ethnonationalism is a strong force in Korean society, and the South Korean state has pursued an active diasporic engagement policy based on this principle. Nevertheless, co-ethnic return migrants from less-developed…

Chinese strategists face an economic security problem in the Malacca Dilemma, describing the threat of a naval blockade of vital Chinese sea lines of communication in the Indian Ocean. It…

As decisive pillars of the national economy, Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) have been seeking to help the country meet its carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals since the government announced…

The United States shares historical ties and fundamental principles with the Pacific islands. While increased US attention on the Pacific Islands is welcomed, US credibility, as well as America’s preeminent…

The paper examines the proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools. It seeks to point out how supply and demand factors result in the proliferation of public security platforms. With special attention…

North Korea has been in the midst of a self-declared food crisis since 2021, and the country’s leadership has declared its intention to normalize the food supply and develop rural…

The universal relaxation of China’s one-child policy since 2016 has not produced sustained population growth as desired by Beijing. Now incentivizing births for the party-state’s economic and political objectives, China’s…

The US-Japan-ROK trilateral relationship is a pillar of Northeast Asian security. The three countries are central: individually, in their bilateral relationships and together, to maintaining peace in a potentially unstable…