East Asia

Spheres of Influence
25th September 2011
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
It seems inevitable that Chinese-­American relations will increasingly come to preoccupy the world. The United States continues to be the only global superpower, but in the not-too-distant future China promises to acquire the status of an equal or near equal.
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Civilization state versus nation-state
15th Jan 2011
Suddeutche Zeitung
China confronts Europe with an enormous problem: we do not understand it
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Why America Must Learn to Bow
21st Nov 2009
The Daily Beast
The president’s visit to China was seen as failure, but what if that was just the new standard? Martin Jacques on why the U.S. must get used to decline—and learn humility.
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Japan’s change of regime won’t mean a change of direction
1st Nov 2009
The Guardian
Although a historic victory for Japan’s Democratic party, Sunday’s election result will mean little in practice
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Malaysia is a rare multicultural success. But its stability is being put to the test
15th Aug 2008
The Guardian
A repeat legal assault on the opposition leader highlights the current volatility. The old order is desperate to hold power
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Burma and Zimbabwe witness the last gasps of the supreme global sheriff
30th Jul 2008
The Guardian
The west can no longer impose its will on the increasingly powerful and self-confident nations of the developing world
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China is back on familiar territory
19th Jun 2008
The Guardian
As relations warm with both Taiwan and Japan, China is resuming its centuries-old position as the linchpin of east Asia
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Myopia on Myanmar
21st May 2008
The Guardian
Governments and the media need to wake up to the fact that east Asia can increasingly look after itself and doesn't need or want western help
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Japan’s retreat into nationalism
22nd Sep 2006
The Guardian
The rise of Shinzo Abe to the premiership of Japan is portent of the growing tension between it and China.
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Japan’s resurgent nationalism has global ramifications
27th Sep 2006
The Guardian
The new prime minister's unrepentant attitude to war crimes could threaten the world's most important economic zone
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As China rises, so does Japanese nationalism
17th Nov 2005
The Guardian
Japan is stuck in its past, and its refusal to come to terms with it threatens to define its future and that of the whole of east Asia
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The cockpit of future conflicts
22nd Jul 2005
The Guardian
Japan's contempt for its own continent has become a liability
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East is east - get used to it
20th May 2005
The Guardian
As Japan has shown, and China will too, the west's values are not necessarily universal
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Japan’s failure to own up to its past threatens its future
23rd Apr 2005
The Guardian
Long-running regional hostilities threaten the stability of east Asia
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No monopoly on modernity
5th Feb 2005
The Guardian
American dominance is bound to wither as Asia's confidence grows
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The forces of darkness are ready, waiting in the wings
3rd Apr 2004
The Guardian
In Asia’s year of elections, Indonesian democracy is hanging by a thread
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