Diplomacy & Security
China Invests in Africa As Grand Foundation for Its Belt-and-Road Master Plan
The China-in-Africa story is intriguing for its complex dubiety. Surging domestic growth goaded China’s rising demand for […]
Author Archives for Monika Chansoria
Dr. Monika Chansoria is a Senior Visiting Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. She is the author of five books, including her latest work, China, Japan and Senkaku Islands: Conflict in the East China Sea amid an American Shadow (Routledge © 2018). Follow her on Twitter @MonikaChansoria.
Diplomacy & Security
Japan’s National Security Should Prevail over Politics in Okinawa
Denny Tamaki was pronounced as the new governor of Okinawa after a divisive campaign that remained singularly […]
Diplomacy & Security
China’s BRI, Saudi Arabia, and the Confusing Game Inside Pakistan
It took close to 22 years for Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to finally assume the […]
Diplomacy & Security
China Will Be Largest Military Spender in Asia-Pacific in 10 Years: Should We Worry?
By Monika Chansoria Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a pitch for normalizing the Sino-Japanese relationship […]
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China Continues Repression in Tibet With Live-Fire Military Drills
By Monika Chansoria China’s expansionism and revisionist statecraft is a tale to tell both within the “People’s Republic” […]
Diplomacy & Security
Belt and Road Initiative Debts Reduce Pakistan to China’s Client State
Monika Chansoria A client state, owing primarily to its policies and international standing, is one that is […]
Politics
Newly-Discovered 16 Million MTs of Rare Earth Minerals Can Make Japan Independent of China
Monika Chansoria The prospects for exploring seabed minerals have attracted the attention of […]
Diplomacy & Security
Russia, China Power Games Prop Up North Korea’s Nuclear Brinkmanship
Great power games are in full swing in Northeast Asia, as exhibited by the sudden and steep increase of […]
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How Beijing’s Push for China-Centric Asia Impacts the Indo-Pacific
The latest China Security Report published by Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) in February aims to analyze China’s […]
Diplomacy & Security
Why China Is Stepping Up Quest for the Senkakus in 2018
On January 11th, the Japanese government confirmed spotting a submerged Chinese submarine near Japan’s territorial waters as it entered […]
Diplomacy & Security
Yuan Diplomacy: Panama Cuts Ties with Taiwan in Favor of the Mainland
People celebrate Christmas in Panama Panama has received munificent rewards from Beijing for its decision to formally cut all […]
Politics
Studies in Contrast: Abe’s Popular Mandate, Xi Jinping’s Monopoly of Power
Democracies around the world have commonalities in terms of their approach and consequent connection with the masses or the […]