Axel Berkofsky
Large parts of the territorial waters in the South China Sea are contested and China is the biggest and the most assertive claimant country. In the South China Sea Beijing’s territorial claims...
Two years after Xi Jinping was elected President of China, the country is undergoing a profound transformation that will shape its political and economic position over the coming years.
Whether Xi...
Economic good sense and reforms as opposed to ill-fated nationalism and historical revision. In a nutshell, this is what Japan’s current and most probably also future government should be able to...
Two Asian leaders who planned to meet at the APEC meeting in Beijing actually did just that: on November 10 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for a short but...
Where is China under its (relatively) new president Xi Jinping heading to politically and economically? That question is as open as ever and those analysts and observers who over the last two years...
Beijing would vote for Angela Merkel in Germany’s upcoming general elections.
Japan’s (relatively) new government is arguably doing (much) better than its critics inside and outside of Japan anticipated when the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took...
As have been explained elsewhere in this dossier North Korea is flexing its military muscles actively and consciously increasing the risk of a military conflict with South Korea and its allies-small...
Abstract
North Korea is flexing its muscles, again. The UN imposing further sanctions onto North Korea in a (late) response to its December 2012 missile and February 2013 nuclear tests had the...
The LDP is back. After three years in opposition, the Liberal-Democratic Party led by the party’s president Shinzo Abe won an impressive landslide victory in Japan’s general elections on December 16...
The 67-year old Thein Sein took office as Burma’s president in March 2011, after the country’s first election in 20 years in November 2010. Since then, he has led a process of reform in Burma, ruled...