Chairman’s Message: After Hanoi, Back to Basics
Categories: Chairman's Message, Sasakawa USA Blog
For its first two years, North Korea has been the Trump administration’s highest profile diplomacy effort in Asia. The President and his advisors believed that in dealing with North Korea they had better ideas, greater skills and more favorable conditions than their predecessors. Some even dreamed that Donald Trump could be the second American president
Tags: adm dennis blair, Alliances, Asia, chairman's message, denuclearization, diplomacy, Kim regime, North Korea
Assertive Engagement: An Updated U.S.-Japan Strategy for China
Author: Adm. Dennis Blair and Hiroko Maeda
Categories: In the News
The U.S.-Japan alliance requires a fresh new strategy of “Assertive Engagement” toward an increasingly ambitious China to assuage territorial uncertainties in the Asia-Pacific and maximize opportunities for economic influence. That’s the recommendation of “Assertive Engagement: An Updated U.S.-Japan Strategy for China,” an op-ed authored by Sasakawa USA Chairman and CEO Admiral Dennis Blair and Non-Resident Fellow Hiroko
Tags: admiral dennis blair, assertive engagement, China, diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, hiroko maeda, in the news, Japan, national interest, report, us-japan alliance
True Stories from Japan: An exemplary member of the international community
Categories: Sasakawa USA Alumni, Sasakawa USA Blog, True Stories from Japan
I’ve come to believe that Japan can play an important role in world politics, far beyond Northeast Asia, as it has a very credible diplomatic voice and significant means at its disposal. Japan has been, by anyone’s measure, an exemplary member of the international community and it derives a lot of legitimacy from this.
Tags: alexander alden, diplomacy, reform, SEED, seed fpi, true stories from japan
Perspectives: Breaking the ice in Northeast Asia, by Kent C. Calder
Author: Mainichi Shimbun
Categories: Views
While top world leaders spent their time surrounding the G-20 and APEC meetings travelling around the region and making ties with ASEAN and other leaders, Japan’s struggle remains in Northeast Asia.
Tags: APEC, ASEAN, China, diplomacy, foreign policy, G-20, human rights, Japan, Kent Calder, Kono Statement, Korea, Northeast Asia, region, regional disputes, Russia, territorial disputes, trilateral diplomacy, United States
Op-Ed: Détente for China and Japan
Author: New York Times
Categories: Views
Akio Takahara, professor at the University of Tokyo and visiting scholar at Peking University, examines the widely reported 25 minute meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping where the two leaders only brushed upon diplomatic tensions such as territorial disputes.
Tags: APEC, China, diplomacy, diplomatic, Japan, Shinzo Abe, territorial disputes, Xi Jinping