Commentary / Japan Sep 4, 2020
Rest of Asia will miss Abe more than Japan will
by Mihir Sharma
Asian democracies will have to hope that Japan continues down the path Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid out.
Commentary / World Sep 1, 2020
China alone: Will the prospect of isolation thwarts Beijing's imperialist ambitions?
by Brahma Chellaney
In his most recent New Year’s speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that 2020 would be “a milestone.” Xi was right, but not in the way he expected. Far from having “friends in every corner of the world,” as he boasted in his speech, ...
Commentary / World Aug 5, 2020
What does Vietnam think of America's Indo-Pacific strategy?
by Derek Grossman
The South China Sea is where the rubber meets the road for U.S.-Vietnam security ties, and in this regard, Hanoi has gone as far as it is comfortable.
Commentary / Japan Jun 21, 2020
The case for Japan-U.S. space cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
by Taro Sato
To combat China’s space ambitions, Japan and the U.S. need a coordinated, regional approach.
Commentary / Japan May 25, 2020
Japan must start drafting an Indo-Pacific charter
by Kuni Miyake
After watching dozens of webinars, including one co-hosted by the Canon Institute for Global Studies and the Stimson Center, it seems clear that no one knows what will happen to the international order in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason is obvious. COVID-19 ...
Commentary / Japan Mar 22, 2020
U.S.-India relations shape Japan's strategic environment
by Ramesh Thakur
Japan's strategic environment is shaped by the intersection of three major geopolitical storylines.
Commentary / Japan Jan 22, 2020
In the competition for Southeast Asia influence, Japan is the sleeper
by Brad Glosserman
Tokyo's insistence on the value of a rules-based order, the heart of its Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision, has sunk in.
Commentary / Japan Jan 21, 2020
Where India fits in Japan's Indo-Pacific strategy
by Titli Basu
The South Asia giant has grown increasingly prominent in Japan's regional strategy.
Commentary / Japan Jan 14, 2020
Toward an Indo-Pacific concert of democracies
by Brahma Chellaney
If democratic powers leverage their bilateral and trilateral partnerships to generate progress toward such a concert of democracies, the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific may be achievable in the years ahead.
Commentary / Japan Dec 12, 2019
Shifting into the era of the Indo-Pacific
by Stephen R. Nagy
The Indo-Pacific era should not and must not be defined by the U.S.-China strategic competition.
Commentary / Japan Dec 11, 2019
Indo-Pacific at the heart of rules-based order
by J. Berkshire Miller
The region is facing a host of shared challenges from maritime piracy and crime to heated territorial disputes.
Commentary / Japan Nov 22, 2019
Japan and India — a special relationship
by Aman Thakker
As the world's economic center of gravity shifts to Asia, it increasingly falls to these two countries to take up the baton to champion freedom, inclusivity, trade and other liberal values.