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US Claims its Anti-China US-ASEAN Summit "Not Anti-China"
For decades the US has sought to stitch together a united front stretching from Central Asia, across Southeast Asia, and even into East Asia itself to encircle and contain China. From the 70 year occupation of Japan, to the Korean and...
Japan’s Foreign Policy Messages of Early 2016
The changing face of Japan’s foreign policy—a many-year process—has been marked by several notable messages sent to the outside world in 2016 that has just begun. Firstly, it was Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s response to the request of the members...
Is China Being Wooed by Fantasies of Western ‘Acceptance’?
In the area of finance and creation of new financial institutions much hope of many nations has been placed on China. Last year China played a catalytic role in helping establish a new BRICS...
