Respect Our Core Interests, Xi Tells US
Strengthening dialogue and cooperation is the “correct choice” for China and the United States, President Xi Jinping told visiting US Vice-President Joe Biden Read Here – China Daily
Tag: Japan
The New New Thing
It is the new new normal: a way to describe the persistent state of subpar economic growth plaguing developed nations. Read Here – Bloomberg
Easterly Tesnions
Both China and Japan are trying to centralize security decision-making. Could this help avoid a clash? Read Here – The Diplomat
The Defining East Asia War
For those seeking to understand the perilous politics of the region today, there is no better place to start than the First Sino-Japanese War, which pitted China’s fading Qing Dynasty against an ascendant Meiji Japan in a contest for regional supremacy. Read Here – National Interest
Balancing East Asia
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will try to strike a delicate balance of calming military tensions with China while supporting ally Japan against Beijing on a trip to Asia this week that is being overshadowed by a territorial dispute in the East China Sea. Read Here – Reuters
Rediscovering Asia
After a period of distraction, the U.S. reaffirms by word and deed its interest in Asia. Read Here – The Diplomat
Dangerous Dance In The East Seas
The Communist Party summit that recast Xi Jinping as a reformer extraordinaire has produced its first foreign-policy initiative: poking Japan in the eye, writes William Pesak. Read Here – Bloomberg
And What Are These Two Doing With Each Other?
To be sure, Russia and Japan are not natural security partners. In the twentieth century, they fought two wars against each other, first in 1904–05, and again in 1945. Japan seized territory from Russia in the first; Russia seized territory from Japan in the second. In the following decades, the two countries largely kept their […]
Obama Flexing Muscles, Finally
In reality China has made plain that, while it is happy to bully lesser states such as the Philippines, it has little appetite yet for an open confrontation with the United States which can still–but for how much longer?–bring overwhelming naval and air assets to bear in the western Pacific. Read Here – Commentary
Bitcoin, Bit By Bit
Yes, Bitcoin is what some call a deflationary currency. Because the system was designed to allow the creation of only a finite number of bitcoins, there will come a point where, as demand rises, the value of the currency will only go up (making the price of goods and services fall, hence the term deflation). And that could […]
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