Q&As: Northeast Asia
November 2017
Strategies, Challenges, and Considerations for Economic Growth in South Korea
Policy Q&A
June Park (Seoul National University) discusses the strategies deployed by recent South Korean administrations to meet domestic targets for economic growth and innovation. She comments on the complex relationship of the chaebol system and small and medium-sized enterprises in the South Korean economy, among other issues.
May 2017
South Korea Votes for Change: What It Means for the United States
Commentary
Daniel C. Sneider, Associate Director for Research at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, analyzes the impact that the return to power of South Korea’s progressives will have on alliance relations with the United States.
May 2017
Asia’s Orphan: Taiwan's Strategic Culture in Context
Policy Q&A
Steven M. Goldstein (Harvard University) highlights the main findings of the NBR Special Report "Taiwan: Asia's Orphan?" and explains how Taiwan’s perception of its “orphan” status in the international system shapes its strategic culture, as well as its approach to its relationships with China and the United States.
April 2017
Comrade Xi Meets Mister Trump: Summit or Base Camp?
Commentary
In the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago summit, William C. McCahill Jr. (NBR) looks at expectations and outcome of the meetings, what the Chinese people were and were not told, and implications for U.S. policy going forward.
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