China Policy Institute Blog
Behind Beijing’s East Asian Maritime Assertiveness
March 21, 2013
By Chong-Pin Lin. For China 2008 was a year of diplomatic harvests. Not only did Beijing reach agreement with Moscow in October on their disputed borders of more than 4,000 kilometers, it did the same with Hanoi on the 1,300 km long border at the year’s end. In May, Chinese President Hu Jintao concluded a …
Sir David Warren on Japan/China relations
February 27, 2013
Sir David Warren is the recent former British Ambassador to Japan (2008-12). Here is the video of a talk he gave at Nottingham last week.
Ma’s Peace Initiative and Taiwan’s Diaoyutai Debate
February 26, 2013
By Michal Thim. The ROC (hereafter Taiwan) President Ma Ying-jeou’s East China Sea Peace Initiative came at time of heightened tensions between Japan and the PRC (hereafter China), and to a certain extent also between Taiwan and Japan. It was announced on August 5, 2012 and implementation guidelines were subsequently released on September 6 on the occasion …
Abe’s Southeast Asian Diplomacy: Intersection of the South and East China Sea disputes
February 25, 2013
By Andrew Chubb. Between January 10 and 19 this year, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida paid formal bilateral visits to the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia: seven countries in the space of 10 days. The diplomatic blitz illustrates the intersection of the East and South China Sea disputes, …
Three Scenarios for the Diaoyu/Senkaku Dispute
February 21, 2013
By Dingping Guo. The Japanese government’s decision to purchase and nationalize the Diaoyu (Senkaku in Japanese) islands in September 2012 triggered a series of drastic and dramatic responses from China. Not only there were huge anti-Japan protests and demonstrations in many cities across China, but also various administrative, legal and military measures have been taken …
Stranded on the Islands: Why China and Japan’s Clash over Maritime Claims Is a Problem, But a Soluble One
February 19, 2013
By Kerry Brown. Here is the quandary. Two major economies on which the world depends for future stability and growth have had a difficult history with each other and tetchy political relations. Add to this that they are both politically and socially cultures that have huge issues with public face and reputation, in which backing …
Sino-Japanese Relations: The Security Perspective
February 18, 2013
By June Teufel Dreyer. The recent revelation of two incidents in which Chinese frigates locked target radars onto Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (MSDF) assets added a new level of escalation to an already tense situation. Perhaps in order to avoid inflaming these tensions, the Japanese government revealed the incidents only belatedly on February 5—the …
China-Japan special issue
In a region characterized by economic dynamism and strategic complexity, relations between Northeast Asia’s two economic giants are more fraught with tensions and contradictions than any other dyad. Economic complementarities have succeeded in muting historical distrust to a point, but the evolving Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute, in addition to the real danger of strategic missteps, reveals intense, longstanding …
Political reform an urgent task for the incoming leadership
October 19, 2012
by Anastas Vangeli Political reform has a very righteous, even a Confucian purpose in the Party’s discourse. The Party often conceptualizes the need for political reform as an answer to the growing “plagues” in governance. One of the most important of these plagues is corruption. The definition of corruption in China stretches far beyond only …
Calming Influence
December 8, 2011
China should understand the regional worries about its rise that lie behind America’s strategy of engagement with Asia, and seek to allay those fears – without equivocation, Steve Tsang says. The United States’ quick-fire diplomatic double – the announcement of its intention to base 2,500 marines in northern Australia, followed by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s high-profile visit …
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