Category: REGIONS
Asia’s Big What If: What Happens If Kim Jong-Un Is No More?

A collapse of the Kim regime would send shockwaves throughout Northeast Asia, writes the Council on International Policy’s J. Berkshire Miller.
Northeast Asia Diplomacy: A Trilateral Way Forward?

A trilateral approach to China, Japan and South Korea relations may be able to do what bilateral negotiations cannot.
Japan and India’s Mutual Courtship

Abe and Modi are becoming fast friends, and China’s watching, writes the Council on International Policy’s J. Berkshire Miller for Al Jazeera America.
Abe: Japan’s New Statesman?

In his latest for Global Asia, the Council on International Policy’s J. Berkshire Miller writes about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ambitious diplomatic drive to reassert Japan’s global influence.
Japan’s South Asia Strategy Takes Shape

With an eye towards Beijing, Tokyo seems set to increase its outreach to nations like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Mongolia: The Next Asian Tiger?

The Council on International Policy’s J. Berkshire Miller writes about the new Free Trade Agreement between Mongolia and Japan and looks at Mongolia’s economic road ahead in his latest article for The National Interest.
Canada’s Role vs. ISIS

The Council on International Policy’s Navid Hassibi and Wisam Salih recently published a piece in Embassy News and in the Canadian International Council’s opencanada.org about Canada’s role in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Hassan Rouhani: Supreme Leader Khamenei’s Choice for President?

Of course, nobody knows except for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, but what if he did implicitly support Hassan Rouhani, the lone moderate candidate in Iran’s presidential race, would it be a complete surprise? Perhaps not, it might actually make sense.