It is hard to understand the global flow of funds without understanding the risks now being taken by Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean life insurers.
Asia
South Korea
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Korea looks to be doing a real stimulus. Other "twin surplus" countries should too.
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Scott Snyder describes the domestic and institutional politics on the Korean side, examining how increased political polarization affects Korean attitudes toward Japan.
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Seoul’s decision to abandon an important military intelligence-sharing agreement with Tokyo could hurt regional security and U.S. interests related to China and North Korea.
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Summer 2019 has been a watershed moment for trends that threaten to compromise South Korea’s position in Northeast Asia.
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The United States must protect the alliance architecture in Northeast Asia from internal threats, so that it will be prepared if and when external threats come its way.
Experts in this Region
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The global tech industry and U.S. interests in Asia could suffer if the dispute isn’t resolved soon.
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South Korea fired warning shots at a Russian warplane after it violated Seoul’s airspace over disputed islands. Here’s what that means for the region.
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The United States’ deterrence record is spotty vis-à-vis North Korea, and a judgement of its success or failure hinges on how the behaviors or actions targeted by deterrence are defined.
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We may well come to look back on this moment as the time in which Asia began to come apart.
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If North Korean nuclear proliferation was intended by China to reduce the U.S. presence in the Pacific, that strategy has backfired.
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The United States should maintain a resolute policy aimed at denuclearizing North Korea.
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Without proper preparations, what can a handshake at the DMZ deliver?
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Promoting greater trilateral cooperation between the U.S.-South Korea and U.S.-Japan alliances would bring Northeast Asia closer to the North Atlantic model of collective defense, but doing so comes with significant risk.