Asia Policy 17.2
April 2022
This issue of Asia Policy features a roundtable on the geopolitics of external power involvement in the Mekong River subregion; an essay on lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the U.S.-Japan alliance in a potential Taiwan crisis scenario; articles on Japan’s human rights diplomacy and on whether China treated Japan more preferentially during Donald Trump’s U.S. presidency; and a book review roundtable on China’s protection of its overseas interests.
Roundtable
Interests, Initiatives, and Influence: Geopolitics in the Mekong Subregion
Essay
The United States, Japan, and Taiwan: What Has Russia’s Aggression Changed?
Article
The Japan Differential? China’s Policy toward Japan during the Trump Era
Article
Japan’s Human Rights Diplomacy: A Convergence of Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Interests
Book Review Roundtable
Andrea Ghiselli’s Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
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