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U.S. President Joe Biden looks on as South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol delivers remarks during a visit to a semiconductor factory at the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek Campus in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, May 20, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Order from Chaos

How South Korea sees technology competition with China and export controls

Seong-ho Sheen and Mireya Solís

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to media at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on February 27, 2022. Kishida speaks about Ukraine crisis.The Japanese government decided to add economic sanctions on Russia. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

How Asian countries are reacting to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Tanvi Madan, Mireya Solís, and Andrew Yeo

Monday, March 21, 2022

(L-R) US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (Lloyd James Austin III), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Antony John Blinken), Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi and Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi attend a joint press conference after US - Japan Security Consultative Committee at Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on March 16, 2021. All of them wear face masks amid a pandemic of the new coronavirus COVID-19. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Order from Chaos

Around the halls: Experts react to high-level meetings between American and Asian officials

David Dollar, Michael E. O’Hanlon, and Mireya Solís

Friday, March 19, 2021

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks with David Wessel at Brookings on the Biden administration’s international economics agenda to date and the direction of this agenda going forward. Photo credit: Ralph Alswang

International Affairs

Reactions to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Brookings speech

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

A police officer patrols near the State Guest House in Tokyo on May 21, 2022, ahead of a summit in the Japanese capital on May 24 of the "Quad" group of Indo-Pacific democracies -- the United States, Japan, Australia and India. (Kyodo)
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Japan

Japan And China: Competition or cooperation in Southeast Asia? | Japan’s Indo-Pacific plan – Part 1

Friday, January 20, 2023

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) arrives at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near Jakarta on April 29, 2022, wearing a mask for protection against the coronavirus. Kishida visits Indonesia on the first leg of his tour of five nations in Southeast Asia and Europe. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)
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Japan

How will Japan’s Indo-Pacific strategy impact Southeast Asia? | Japan’s Indo-Pacific plan – Part 2

Friday, January 20, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend the Japan-U.S. summit meeting at Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo, Japan, May 23, 2022.

Order from Chaos

As Kishida meets Biden, what is the state of the US-Japan alliance?

Friday, January 20, 2023

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (not pictured) hold a virtual meeting with business leaders and state governors to discuss supply chain problems, particularly addressing semiconductor chips, on the White House campus in Washington, U.S., March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

South Korea

A US-ROK economic alliance: Meeting present and future challenges

Friday, January 13, 2023

Podcast Episode

Why is WTO reform so difficult?

Mireya Solís and David Dollar

Monday, December 6, 2021

Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/Files

Japan

Economic security: Boon or bane for the US-Japan alliance?

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Vietnam's Industry and Trade Minister Tran Tuan Anh (C) signs as Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L) witnesses during the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement during the 37th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam November 15, 2020. REUTERS/Kham

Asia & the Pacific

Heyday of Asian regionalism? Implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership for the United States

August 2022

FILE PHOTO: Employees work on the automobile assembly line at Kawasaki factory of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., owned by Germany-based Daimler AG, in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

Japan

The big squeeze: Japanese supply chains and great power competition

July 2021

Mourners pay their respects to late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, in Taipei, Taiwan, July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Japan

Suspect arrested in connection with prime minister assassination

Friday, July 8, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a welcoming ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, on May 23, 2022. Biden launched his plan for U.S. economic engagement in Asia on Monday by initiating the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework with 13 founding countries. Speaking at the launch event in Tokyo, Biden said that the future of the 21st Century economy will be written in the Indo-Pacific. The 13 initial members of the group, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), are the U.S., Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei, the Biden administration said Monday. The members accounting for about 40% of the world's gross domestic product.

Order from Chaos

Will Biden’s Asia trip help the US meet its strategic objectives?

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) launch event at Izumi Garden Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

U.S. Foreign Policy

Biden looks to “anchor” in region

Monday, May 23, 2022