Asia & Oceania

China’s currency has considerable economic potential, but, as a reserve currency, the yuan (also called the renminbi) remains far behind the US dollar. Political concerns help explain such underperformance. In…

U.S. President Joe Biden proposed strategic stability talks with China in November. If held, the discussions will be an important step toward possible nuclear risk reduction. But as the United…

From Australia to India, to South Korea and Vietnam, countries throughout the Indo-Pacific are pushing back against an increasingly assertive China. The geopolitical development that could prove most significant in…

In September 2021, the International Criminal Court opened a formal investigation into extrajudicial killings by police in the Philippines. Despite the insistence of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration that such an…

This is part two in a dialogue series with Professor Dougherty on Russia’s regional policies and their impact on the United States’ security and diplomacy. Recently, relations between…

For decades, Australia has dragged its feet on climate action because national interests have been reliant on fossil fuel exports. However, the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last…

China is modernizing and expanding its nuclear arsenal, consistent with President Xi Jinping’s desire to build Chinese wealth and power. To understand China’s strategy — and how to counter it…

Relations between China and western nations have been strained for centuries, and both sides have sought out various models of economic interdependence. As China reaches a new, challenging…

Current controversies surrounding the memory of a 1923 massacre of Koreans in and around Tokyo provide a starting point for examining the rise of historical denialism in Japan. The past…

The world order has undergone tremendous changes since the U.S.- and USSR-led Olympic boycotts during the Cold War. The growing political influence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has led some scholars…