The global energy landscape is undergoing a rapid—and perhaps historic—transformation. As demand has increasingly shifted to Asia, a sudden boost in supply from North American fracking has sent petroleum prices into a tailspin and caused a power shift in g ...
China’s meteoric rise may not have been inevitable. In fact, without the vision of individual leaders, the powerful China of today might have never emerged. And among those pivotal Chinese leaders, the most important was Deng Xiaoping. Indeed, argues Ezra ...
What is the future of America’s navy in the Asia-Pacific region? Amid an increasing array of maritime challenges, US defense budgets are ever tighter. Meanwhile, China is increasing its defense budgets and naval spending, Japan is becoming more forward in ...
Japan and South Korea have long been key pillars to US strategy in Asia – and the stakes for the relationship are high, as China’s growth continues and multi-lateral trade and military alliances evolve. To better understand the nuances of the economic, pol ...
In an increasingly multipolar environment, what will be Japan’s global role in the future? The island nation is still facing economic challenges at home, with the “third arrow” of Abenomics yet to prove whether structural reforms can boost long term growth ...
As China’s economic growth decelerates, the country’s leaders are proving their adaptability by not just switching gears, but replacing the engine entirely. If current trends continue, China’s economy will soon be driven by consumer spending rather than in ...
China’s business landscape is evolving. The country is expected to become the world’s largest consumer market within the next decade, and with this change come vast new opportunities for foreign and domestic companies. Knowledge-based sectors such as the s ...
chinese monetary party.jpg Anonymous's blog This week China took an unusually strong measure to goose its economy. It lowered the amount of money that Chinese banks needed to hold in reserve. In theory, this should allow the banks to take those seq ...
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2959707 Karl Friedhoff September 20, 2012 Korea JoongAng DailyPolicy & Politics, AsiaPolicy & PoliticsAsia Karl Friedhoff ...
http://en.asaninst.org/contents/issue-brief-no-40-right-wrong-and-ahead-why-moon... Karl Friedhoff December 23, 2012 The Asan Institute for Policy StudiesPolicy & Politics, AsiaPolicy & PoliticsAsia Karl Friedhoff ...
