By Howard S. Schiffman The crisis in global and regional fisheries, and the overall stress on the oceans, needs to be viewed in the realm of security. Resource driven competition has put a new spotlight on the oceans as a…
Who is he? Su Tseng-chang is the current chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan, the primary opposition to President Ma Ying-jeou’s Kuomintang (KMT). Su has been on the front lines of DPP politics since helping launch the…
The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office agreed with the Japanese government this week on terms for Japan to accede to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. There will be 90-day comment period for the U.S. Congress, and then each of the other…
Who is he? Wang Yi has served as the Director of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) since 2008. Prior to his stint at the TAO, Wang spent most of his diplomatic career managing China’s relationships with its Asian…
North Korea’s bizarre and provocation-filled 2013 has shifted to outright danger this week. Following an additional UN Security Council resolution after the DPRK’s latest nuclear test, the government of the North is threatening South Korea and President Park Geun-hye with…
China’s government, embroiled in an ongoing row with the United States and other governments over cybersecurity, shared figures on the number of attacks that the Chinese Ministry of Defense website absorbed last year. A defense ministry spokesperson indicated that the…
North Korea announced that following its successful satellite rocket launch in December 2012, it plans to conduct a nuclear test in the near future. CSIS’s Korea Chair Victor Cha has written about this at length, anticipating a provocation in the…
By Richard Jackson and Tobias Peter As the world’s societies age, policymakers are trying to peer into the future and anticipate the retirement needs of tomorrow’s growing elderly populations. Nowhere is this more difficult to do than in emerging East…
By Mike Green Editor’s Note: The CSIS Asia Team is writing a series of analyses that forecasts key issues and challenges in the Asia-Pacific for 2013. Dr. Michael J. Green opens the series by assessing the prospects for the U.S.…
By Jennie Welch For decades, the term “core interest” has been applied by the Chinese government to issues related to its territorial integrity, issues such as Tibet and Taiwan. Territorial integrity is an essential aspect of the Chinese state’s identity…
