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Does Putin Have a Kuril Islands Plan?
As a I reported this week, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russia's President Vladimir Putin enjoyed what could be [...]
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Is China Carelessly Overextending Itself?
Over the past two weeks, Indian media has reported several border incursions along the two states’ disputed Himalayan border . [...]
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World War II: Not Over For Japan and Russia
An odd historical fact: Japan and Russia at the end of the World War II never signed a formal peace [...]
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Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: A “Core Interest” of China
Even as tensions with North Korea remain unresolved, East's Asia other flashpoint is once again in the headlines: the Senkaku/Diaoyu [...]
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What John Kerry is Doing Right and Wrong in East Asia
As Secretary of State John Kerry prepares for a series of congressional hearings this week, it’s worth taking stock of [...]
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East Asia’s Islands Challenge
Last week, the Center for Naval Analysis published the fifth in a series of reports on the current status of [...]
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Taiwan’s New Source for Submarine Tech?
It has been more than a decade since U.S. President George W. Bush announced that Washington was willing to help [...]
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Did Russian Jets Violate Japanese Airspace?
Japan scrambled fighter jets after two Russian Su-27 fighter jets entered Japanese airspace over the territorial waters of Rishiri Island [...]
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Tensions Mount Between Japan and China
More and more, the dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea is starting [...]
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Shinzo Abe’s Strategic Diamond
Will the return of Shinzo Abe as Japan's prime minister mark the attempted revival of his controversial and short-lived 2007 [...]
