(Last of Two Parts) Part 1: China’s Coercive Posturing in the Senkakus: A Quest for Dominance China implements its coercive posturing strategy by surrounding...
(First of Two Parts) On September 14, 2012, China dispatched six maritime surveillance cutters to the territorial waters of the Senkaku Islands for the...
Archival accounts of 19th century Tibet describe it as the forbidden, inaccessible, daunting, and remotely unreachable territory of the Himalayas. Located at an elevation...
Prior to hosting the G-20 Summit in Osaka in late June, the Abe government was considering proposing a set of rules for infrastructure investment...
Last March 13, China yet again blocked the proposed initiative of the United States, Britain, and France to have the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)...
Pulwama, a town in the northern-most Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, witnessed the most dastardly terror attack on a convoy of India’s Central Reserve...
The future of regionalism in the larger Indo-Pacific continues to be uncertain. This is because the region expects China to be more forthcoming and transparent,...
The China-in-Africa story is intriguing for its complex dubiety. Surging domestic growth goaded China’s rising demand for avenues with natural resources. In that...
Denny Tamaki was pronounced as the new governor of Okinawa after a divisive campaign that remained singularly focused on the presence of American...
It took close to 22 years for Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to finally assume the reins of power in Pakistan. ...
By Monika Chansoria China’s expansionism and revisionist statecraft is a tale to tell both within the “People’s Republic” and outside of it. For...
We officially launched japan-forward.com on June 1, 2017, with the goal of delivering Japan-related news, features, analyses, and commentaries to reveal the real face of...
