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Evan Stubbs examines the deepening relationship between Israel and Taiwan, highlighting their shared struggles with geopolitical isolation and existential threats, which have fostered significant military, economic, and cultural cooperation.
Graham Owens investigates the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) control over the sports industry, detailing how the IRGC uses its influence to suppress dissent, particularly among female athletes, and to reinforce its political and economic power.
Jheel Doshi explores the Japan to North Korea repatriation program, revealing the manipulation and hardship of ethnic Koreans through geopolitical strategies and propaganda.
Ciel Qi analyzes China's progress in quantum communications and its implications for U.S. national security, recommending a cautious approach to quantum technology adoption and addressing potential intelligence asymmetries.
Soumya Chaturvedi argues that the signing of the IMEC MoU at the G20 Summit aims to foster connectivity between India, the Middle East, and Europe, while strategically diversifying economic relations away from China's BRI influence.
By leveraging its strategic geography, Malaysia stands to secure its sovereignty in the South China Sea by strengthening cooperation between ASEAN member states through the concept of ASEAN centrality, explains Seow E Kin Zane Ryan.
Andrew Faulhaber explains how U.S. and Chinese interests in the Western Pacific are at odds with each other and presents three strategic options for the U.S. Department of Defence.
Cultivating leaders who value fundamental human rights and dignity should be the teaching and practicing model at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and beyond, argues Rayhan Assat.
In lieu of the unbridled, markets-and-economics-over-ideology approach to globalizing trade and capital flows that dominated the three decades after the end of the Cold War, we now observe prominent global players cultivate ever-closer ties with counterparts that share similar worldviews. Brian Wong examines this ongoing process of financial balkanization and cautions against its dangers.
It is in the national interest of the United States to deter a hostile PRC takeover of Taiwan. Lt Samuel Winegar explores how might the United States and its regional partners best prepare the battlefield for potential conflict or better yet, deter PRC aggression without fighting.
Zhi Han Tan discusses how denouncing “Chinese privilege” bears a diplomatic function beyond domestic repercussions.
Exacerbating the gender divide proved a successful strategy for the South Korean conservatives, argues Sunghea Khil.
What does the decoupling of the Chinese and U.S. economies really mean? Brian Wong reviews James Fok’s Financial Cold War.
What went wrong with President Moon’s ambitious policy of engagement? Jackson’s own Eunjung Irene Oh explains.
By Hacer Berra Akcan
What are mazar festivals, and why do they matter to Uyghur identity? Hacer Berra Akcan explains why they deserve protection.
By Annie Crabill
Book Review of China’s Foreign Policy Since 1978: Return to Power, by Nicholas Khoo (2020, Edward Elgar)
By Zhenyu Zhang
Zhenyu Zhang, a research assistant at Cornell University, explores how Beijing employs diversionary nationalism as a tactic to distract from possible instability.
By Samir Bhatnagar
Samir Bhatnagar argues that concerted efforts from the state are required to expand farmers’ access to institutional credit in India.
By Jacob Kurien and Bernard Yudkin Geoxavier
What steps should China take to successfully promote RMB internationalization? Jacob Kurien and Bernard Yudkin Geoxavier provide updated recommendations.
By Nile Gardiner
China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for Europe. The Chinese Communist Party’s less-than-transparent handling of the outbreak of the virus, and its subsequent efforts to pass blame to the West, have hardened anti-China sentiment in many European capitals.
By Sophie Kaldor
On June 15, 2020, Maria Ressa, one of the Philippines’ most prominent journalists, was found guilty of “cyber libel.” Human rights groups have condemned this verdict as a politically motivated prosecution by the Duterte government. On March 3, 2020, Ressa sat down with Sophie Kaldor from the Yale Journal of International Affairs for an interview, in which they discussed the links between social media and rising authoritarianism in the Philippines, global terrorism, and disinformation.
By Krista Mangiardi
From 2017-2019, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Gansu, China. Having been on the ground, I believe that whether the closure is due to China’s development or to escalating U.S.-China tensions, the program should continue.
By Tae Eom
On December 18, 2018, at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, I encountered a drawing of a young Korean man whose eyes conveyed that he had many stories to tell. I realized it was part of a temporary memorial arranged for the young man, Kim Yong-gyun. I took out my phone to search for his name on the Internet.
By Aaron Baum
This paper recommends that ASEAN countries create investment screening mechanisms close to OECD recommendations and that ASEAN itself encourages working- and Ministerial-level engagement on investment screening via a new Sectoral Ministerial Body that will track regional investment trends.
By Ryan Nabil
In the long term, as the gap between Russian and Chinese economic and military capabilities widens, the basis of Russia-China relations—trade, security cooperation, and stability in the post-Soviet space—are likely to weaken. Moscow’s management of the changing Russia-China relations will shape Russia’s future relations with China and the West.
By Rana Mitter
As China emerges out of its transitional decades, where does the country stand now? Historian Rana Mitter reviews Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi and Jonathan Chatwin’s Long Peace Street, two books giving colorful accounts of China’s shifting images of everyday life, view toward history, and relationship with the world.
By Julian TszKin Chan and Weifeng Zhong
Can we predict governments’ policy moves through changes in propaganda messages? Julian Chan and Weifeng Zhong take a machine learning approach to predict China’s stance on key political issues.
By Pat Wiedorn
In recent decades, China has worked to develop the capability to exercise full military control over its near seas. During an invasion of Taiwan, this capability would be used to deny enemies the ability to deploy troops or ships to the area. To counter this threat the United States needs a larger number of smaller, mission-focused submarines.
By Andrew Rennemo
Regulatory diplomacy that replaces political provocation with cooperation on technical issues, such as securities fraud, antitrust, and illicit trade, could be a first step toward restoring a measure of stability in the U.S.-China relationship.