Nov 21, 2009
- NewsletterSep 17, 2009
The United States has scaled back plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. While that decision reflects a new assessment of the Iranian threat to Europe, most attention is being paid to its impact on relations with Russia. But the decision has equally important implications for Asia.
- NewsletterSep 15, 2009
Senator James Webb’s recent visit to Burma/Myanmar has come under fire from the Burmese democracy movement. The protests, while sincere and well-intended, miss the point of Webb’s visit – he was not there to praise or legitimize the ruling junta but to help craft a more effective policy aimed at its removal and the restoration of democracy to this proud land.
- Critical QuestionsSep 14, 2009
On Friday, September 11, President Obama decided to levy new tariffs on imported tires from China over a three-year period, after a U.S International Trade Commission (USITC) finding that the domestic tire industry had been harmed by a surge in tire imports of 215 percent since 2004.
- NewsletterSep 10, 2009
The wave of hysteria that greeted the victory of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in parliamentary elections last month has receded. The win doesn’t signal the end of the U.S.-Japan alliance, nor does it even necessarily imply a rough patch for the bilateral relationship.
- Critical QuestionsSep 4, 2009
Q1: What statements have the North Koreans made about their nuclear weapons programs?
- Critical QuestionsAug 26, 2009
Q1: What is this election?
- NewsletterAug 25, 2009
Prime Minister Aso Taro, whose public support has plummeted below 20 percent, has announced dissolution of the Lower House of the Diet. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has been gaining ground and could win majority control of the Lower House in the election that will be held at the end of the month.
- NewsletterAug 24, 2009
Over the coming decades, two of India’s greatest challenges will be (1) how to grow while concurrently joining a worldwide push toward mitigating climate change and (2) how to secure diversified sources of energy. The discourse on India’s energy security has centered on the country’s thirst for imported oil.
- NewsletterAug 20, 2009
The Obama administration’s foreign policy in East Asia has been characterized more by continuity than by change, building on policies of previous administrations that have served U.S. interests well.
- ReportAug 20, 2009
Over a period of two months – from June 2009 to August 2009 – a multinational group of Pacific Forum CSIS Young Leaders formed a Task Force with the aim of designing a “road map” for future U.S.-China relations. The pages that follow represent the fruits of that collaboration.
