Another set of measures to tackle deflation CONSERVATIVE, cautious and cowardly: the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has endured all manner of insults over the years. Among the complaints from critics is the charge that the central bank could have boosted Japan’s economy if it had increased its balance-sheet more rapidly during the financial crisis. The […]
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Nuclear Security: a Missing Link in the Nuclear Question
8/04/2012By Seung-Ho KIM More than 10 years ago, a film titled ‘The Peacemaker’ starring Hollywood stars George Clooney and Nicole Kidman made a moderate hit. The movie, which dealt with the efforts to prevent a terrorist group from making an attack with a stolen nuclear bomb upon UN Headquarters in New York, was a stark […]
South Korea is Center Stage
7/04/2012By Arthur I. Cyr Nuclear threats and rocket rattling by North Korea make news as well as noise, but peaceful, positive developments associated with South Korea are more significant for the Korean Peninsula, Asia and the world at large. Soon after the inauguration of young Kim Jong-un as leader of North Korea, Pyongyang announced jointly […]
Chinese Influence in Nepal Grows
5/04/2012A STRANGE cast of Western tourists, Nepalese pilgrims, Tibetan refugees and Chinese spies is forever circling the great stupa at Boudha in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. As people walk clockwise around the building, as prescribed by Buddhist tradition, Nepalese plain-clothes security men mingle among them. Ever since protests in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, were violently suppressed […]
The Dynamic Change in China and Russia’s Military Diplomacy
29/03/2012Written by Ralph Winnie, Contributing Editor Photo: EPA/Anatoly Maltsev The Kremlin recently revealed that Moscow has pledged $640 billion in an effort to bring 80 percent of the Russian military establishment up to modern standards by 2020. Consequently, Vladimir Popovkin, Deputy Defense Minister in charge of arms procurement, recently suggested to the media that the […]
North Korea to Aim Test Missile at Australia
29/03/2012A senior United States official says a long-range missile which North Korea plans to test next month will for the first time be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia. The assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, Kurt Campbell, says the US believes the North Korean missile will land in an area […]
Alexandr Ivanov – South Korea-Japanese Relations Through the Prism of the Territorial Dispute over the Island of Dokdo (Takeshima)
26/03/2012Recently, in political circles is widely exaggerated the issue of disputed territories. Each time a scheduled visit of Russian leaders in Japan, there is always looked forward to negotiate with Russia over the transfer of Kuril Islands to Japan. During a recent visit to Japan, Prime Minister Putin and his talks with Taro Aso, the […]
China’s Shale Gas Strategy
25/03/2012Written by Ralph Winnie, Contributing Editor Over the past twenty years, China has experienced dramatic economic growth, transforming itself from a basically agrarian society into the world’s second largest economy behind only the United States. Since the initiation of economic and political reforms in 1978, China has produced an average annual growth rate of 10 […]
Central Asia: Great Games or Graveyard?
22/03/2012Written by Michael Kofman, Senior Contributor On February 22nd, in what the Financial Times characterized as “Central Asia’s gradual shift from Moscow and towards Beijing,” China drastically expanded its investment in Kazakhstan. Not only in oil, but in a broad range of areas including water, uranium, and transit infrastructure worth billions of dollars. The […]
U.S.-DPRK Food/Nuclear Announcement
22/03/2012By Victor Cha, Ellen Kim, Marie DuMond On February 23–24, the U.S. delegation headed by Ambassador Glyn T. Davies, special representative for North Korea policy, held a third exploratory round of U.S.-DPRK bilateral talks in Beijing with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Kye Gwan. This is the first meeting between the two countries following […]