A Bolder Vision for Australian Foreign Policy
By Olivia Shen — On 23 November, Australia released its first foreign policy strategy in more than a decade. Touted as a comprehensive framework to guide Australia’s international engagement over the...
View ArticleFrom TPP to CPTPP
By Matthew P. Goodman — Today in Santiago, Chile, 11 Asia-Pacific countries signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a multilateral free trade agreement...
View ArticleKey Drivers for the Abe-Trump Summit: Mar-a-Lago, Round Two
By Michael J. Green, Matthew P. Goodman, Victor Cha & Nicholas Szechenyi — President Trump is scheduled to host Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at his Mar-a-Lago club next week for a summit...
View ArticleU.S.-India Insight: The Strategic Importance of India’s Rise
By Richard M. Rossow — The strategic importance of India’s economic rise is often portrayed as a tool to increase domestic spending on defense priorities and to provide a capital base to compete...
View ArticleJapan’s Critical Leadership Role on Free & Fair Trade
By Shin Ito — On March 8, 2018, in Santiago, Chile, 11 Asia-Pacific countries signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which is a new trade agreement...
View ArticleVietnam’s New Cyber Law Could Hobble Foreign Investors and Limit Basic Freedoms
By Murray Hiebert — Vietnam’s controversial new cybersecurity law may dent the country’s well-honed image as a darling of foreign investors, particularly those operating in the information technology...
View ArticleMoving the U.S-Thailand Alliance Forward
By Brian Harding — Among its five treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific, the U.S. alliance with Thailand is the clear outlier. Forged in a strategic moment long past, when the two sides saw Thailand as a...
View ArticleHow can Southeast Asia Win in the U.S.-China Trade War?
By Natasha Burrows & Kim Mai Tran — Economists posit that the U.S.-China trade war will have long-standing economic and geopolitical impacts on Southeast Asia. The export-oriented,...
View ArticleThe Power of Talk
By Matthew P. Goodman — There is an old joke among economists: “Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.” Those of us who follow international economics began this month expecting talk to be at a...
View ArticleU.S.-Japan Trade Talks: What to Expect
By Matthew P. Goodman & Ann Listerud — The United States and Japan are scheduled to launch formal trade negotiations soon. The precise timing is unclear: although a statutory 30-day waiting period...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom’s “Global Britain” Posture Facilitates Forward-leaning...
By John Hemmings — This year has been marked by the return of British naval power to the Indo-Pacific. For the first time since 2013, the United Kingdom (UK) deployed warships to the region, not only...
View ArticleTowards the G20 Osaka Summit: Japan Must Serve as Flag Bearer for Free Trade
By Shin Ito — Recent developments have demonstrated that even founding members of the Bretton Woods regime are willing act against the values of “liberalism, multilateralism, and rule of law,” — which...
View ArticleChina’s Digital Silk Road & Southeast Asia
By Brian Harding — Southeast Asia is home to many of China’s most high-profile Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, including Kyakpyu port in Myanmar, a high-speed railway in northern Laos, and...
View ArticleWhose Rules? The Quest for Digital Standards
By Stephanie Segal — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan made news at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month when he announced Japan’s aspiration to make the G20 summit in Osaka a launch pad for...
View ArticleChina’s Nuclear Power Sector: What It Is & What It Is Not (Yet)
By Jane Nakano — China’s recent, rapid expansion of its domestic nuclear power generation fleet sets it apart from most, if not all, of nuclear power-dependent economies around the world that have...
View ArticleThe Indo-Pacific in Japan’s Foreign Policy
By Ryo Sahashi — Dr. Ryo Sahashi is an associate professor of International Politics at the University of Tokyo. In 2019, Dr. Sahashi was a Visiting Scholar with the Japan Chair at the Center for...
View ArticleU.S.-Japan Cooperation under the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” & Japan’s...
By Yohei Katakawa — The “Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP)” is the diplomatic vision of the Abe administration aiming for regional stability and prosperity through promoting a rules-based order,...
View ArticleThe U.S.-Japan Trade Deal
By Matthew P. Goodman, Dylan Gerstel, Nicholas Szechenyi, & Michael J. Green — On Wednesday, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. president Donald Trump met on the sidelines of the UN...
View ArticleScoring the Trump-Abe Trade Deal
By Matthew P. Goodman — U.S. president Donald Trump and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe initialed a bilateral trade agreement on September 25 on the margins of the UN General Assembly meeting in New...
View ArticleThe CPTPP: (Almost) One Year Later
By Jack Caporal & Jonathan Lesh — Nearly one year after its entry into force, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has yielded a mixed bag of benefits...
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