Dr. Monika Chansoria is a senior fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. She specializes in contemporary Asian security and weapons’ proliferation issues,...
Listen in as the JAPAN Forward editorial team chats with Senior Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), researcher and commentator on Asia’s security...
China has a long history of distorting its own long history. While civilizations everywhere bend the historical narrative to their own purposes, justifying and even...
Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore opened his home to many involved in Asia's cultural renaissance, including Okakura Kakuzo, who famously wrote "The Book of Tea."
Okinawa constitutes the lynchpin of Japan's positioning across the East China Sea, and US military presence remains the pivot for its security and defense.
The China factor has been a recurring campaign issue in US elections. But the question remains whether the new president will turn rhetoric into actual policy.
Beijing has been rapidly expanding its sea power ambitions in Africa by boosting its port infrastructure, including plans for a naval base in Equatorial Guinea.
Despite the fanfare, minilaterals like AUKUS will eventually wither away without delivering tangible results if they are not backed by concrete actions.
Xi and Putin's Beijing summit in May deepened China-Russia ties, integrating their soft and hard powers and blurring the line between wartime and peacetime.
China's Xiaokang villages along its India border are part of Beijing's strategy to exploit legal loopholes and negotiate territorial disputes on its own terms.
Japan's rich maritime history reflects its foreign and security policies, from 19th-century imperial ambitions to the establishment of modern trade routes.
China exploits the crisis in Myanmar by supporting anti-government forces while keeping the desperate junta reliant on investments and military support.