Center for East Asia Policy Studies

A wafer (a thin slice of semiconductor) on display during SEMICON 2020, in Taipei, Taiwan on September 23, 2020.SEMICON Taiwan is the only professional semiconductor exhibition in Taiwan and the second-largest in the world, according to event organizer Semi Taiwan. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Can semiconductor manufacturing return to the US?

Morris Chang, Jude Blanchette, and Ryan Hass

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Why is WTO reform so difficult?

Mireya Solís and David Dollar

Monday, December 6, 2021

Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 2021. Toru Hanai/Pool via REUTERS

Will new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida bring change to Japan?

Mireya Solís and Adrianna Pita

Monday, October 4, 2021

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during the official launch of the CDC Southeast Asia Regional Office in Hanoi, Vietnam, August, 25, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool

What did Kamala Harris’ trip do for US engagement in Southeast Asia?

Jonathan Stromseth and Adrianna Pita

Friday, August 27, 2021

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles - Round 1 - OLS - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - July 30, 2021. Athletes compete as Olympic rings are seen REUTERS/Peter Jebautzke

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were always meant to be a story of resilience

Mireya Solís and David Dollar

Monday, August 2, 2021

People taking selfies near a footbridge decorated with lanterns ahead of the Lunar New Year, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.The island country will see few people in the streets as events, activities and gatherings for festival celebration have been cancelled or postponed to avoid the transmission subsequent to a cluster of domestic outbreak. (Photo by Daniel Tsang / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Can Taiwan have security AND the good life?

Richard C. Bush and Bill Finan

Friday, April 23, 2021

Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshi Kajiyama speaks to media after attending Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, RCEP, meetingheld via video conference on Nov. 15, 2020. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Trading places: America, Japan, and regional trade

The Asia Chessboard

Monday, March 1, 2021

An official adjusts the microphones in front of U.S. and India flags, before a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and U.S. Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, in New Delhi, India, October 27, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

How India-US ties could look under Biden

Tanvi Madan and Archana Chaudhary

Bloomberg

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (C) attends a bilateral meeting inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing August 18, 2011. China and the United States "have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence," Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping told visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/ Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)

The Biden administration’s China direction

Ryan Hass and Kaiser Kuo

Sinica

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga gestures as he is elected as new head of the ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election in Tokyo | Credit: Kyodo

Who is Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s next prime minister?

Mireya Solís and Adrianna Pita

Tuesday, September 15, 2020