http://www.globalasia.org 2012-02-05 13:35:44 All rights reserved. Japan’s detention of a Chinese trawler crew in the waters of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands on Sep http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Diaoyu_Senkaku_Row_Darkens_China_Japan_Ties.html Global Asia Forum 2010-09-28 09:15:30+0900 The ongoing rift between China and Japan over the arrest of the captain of a Chinese fishing boat in the Senkaku waters reveals the most fundamental characteristics of Chinese and Japanese diplomacy, as well as relations between the two countrie http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Fishing_For_Lessons_The_Latest_China_Japan_Rift.html Global Asia Forum 2010-09-28 09:15:30+0900 To my friend in China, How did you enjoy this year's China National Day? I attended a party in Tokyo hosted by the Chinese ambassador to mark the occasio http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Japan-China_relations_stand_at_ground_zero.html Global Asia Forum 2010-09-28 09:15:30+0900 When US President Barack Obama lands in New Delhi on the night of November 5, the same day as the Indian festival of lights and fireworks, Diwali, the first thing that may weigh on his mind is to how to emerge from underneath the shadow of his predecessor, George http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/US_and_India_Time_to_Step_on_the_Gas.html Global Asia Forum 2010-09-28 09:15:30+0900 In popular discussions about the economic rise of Asian nations such as India and China, there is a mistaken assumption that gross domestic product (GDP) translates automatically into geopolitical influence, and that these emerging Asian powers will successfully challenge the global dominance of the West in the not so distant futur http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/The_Global_Political_Ambitions_of_India_and_China.html Global Asia Forum 2010-09-28 09:15:30+0900 Japan’s Upper House election on July 11 was a referendum on the nine-month old government of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), whose historic victory in the Lower House election in August 2009 put an end to 54 years of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Japan_s_Upper_House_Election.html Global Asia Forum 2010-06-22 09:15:30+0900 In discussions of the ‘two great galaxies’ of global governance – the formal Bretton Woods –UN system and the newer and informal Gx system, I have used ‘jumble’ to express the state and architecture of global governanc http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Rising_BRICSAM.html Global Asia Forum 2010-03-22 09:15:30+0900 The US Treasury Department will decide soon whether to label China as “a currency manipulator.” The prospect of a trade war, or even worse a currency war, between the world’s two largest economies risks further destabilizing the shaky recovery of the global economy. Given the e http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Avoiding_a_US-China_Currency_War.html Global Asia Forum 2010-03-22 09:15:30+0900 When US President Barack Obama was campaigning for office, engaging enemies was a cardinal element of his foreign policy platform. So much so that candidate Hillary Clinton criticized him for being naïve about Iran and other “rogue states.” But Obama persisted – right http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Taking_Engagement_Seriously.html Global Asia Forum 2009-09-30 09:15:30+0900 Chung-in Moon is Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University, and Editor-in-Chief of Global Asia. He attended the 2000 and 2007 Korean summits as a special delegate. As a special delegate to both the 2000 and 2007 summits between North and South Korea, the first such meetings http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Reflections_on_a_Summit.html Global Asia Forum 2006-05-17 09:15:30+0900