Yasheng Huang, Professor, MIT’s Sloan School of Management
Sep 25, 2017
North Korea is one of the most insular countries in the world. That insularity is a curse for the long-suffering North Korean people, but an advantage for a sanction-based strategy, because only one country is needed to make it work: China.
Zhao Weibin, Researcher, PLA Academy of Military Science
Sep 21, 2017
The small Pacific country of Palau is a lynchpin in America’s security network. China can learn from this.
Martin Edwards, Associate Professor, Seton Hall University
Sep 21, 2017
Why the international community should not celebrate the unanimous vote to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea: Pyongyang is not without options in responding to the sanctions. It is essential that the international community comes to grips with some very uncomfortable truths about the next phase of the North Korean crisis.
Yun Sun, Director of the China Program and Co-director of the East Asia Program, Stimson Center
Sep 21, 2017
China is stuck between a rock and a hard place on North Korea, but any change in the country’s policy towards North Korea would require a fundamental change in China’s cost-benefit analysis of the current situation. More provocations by North Korea won’t change China’s policy, unless they are bound to lead to a war. Without understanding this crucial point, the world will continue to be disappointed by the insufficiency of the Chinese response.
Cui Lei, Research Fellow, China Institute of International Studies
Sep 19, 2017
Key stakeholders in the North Korean issue need to recognize that Pyongyang is and will remain a nuclear power. Negotiations can proceed from that basis.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Sep 18, 2017
As the US policy strategy has failed in the Korean Peninsula, ominous scenarios cast a shadow over the region - and the chance for peace.
Zhou Bo, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Sep 15, 2017
The US is spending naval resources it can ill-afford patrolling the Western Pacific. These patrols serve no useful purpose and only raise the risk of conflict with the Chinese Navy.
Luo Liang, Assistant Research Fellow, National Institute for South China Sea Studies
Sep 15, 2017
What you need to know about the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea.
Sajjad Ashraf, Former Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore
Sep 14, 2017
The U.S. may be the strongest state militarily, but it needs regional players like China, Iran, Russia and Pakistan to make success of its policy choices on Afghanistan. Operationally it needs to rely on Pakistani ports and road networks to resupply American troops in Afghanistan.
Brahma Chellaney, Professor, Center for Policy Research
Sep 14, 2017
China tactically retreated in Doklam because, beyond declaring war on India, it was running out of options. But without the distraction of a looming party congress, China could seek revenge for Doklam at a time and place of its choosing. Next time, the PLA is unlikely to make the mistake of encroaching onto an area where India enjoys the military advantage.