President George W. Bush gets little credit in Washington these days, but he did achieve one major accomplishment in Asia: He resisted pressure from the Republican Right to confront China. U.S. cooperation with China and maintenance of U.S. alliances with Japan and South Korea are the pillars of future security in Asia. Contrary to popular […]

How do we want the North Korea problem to end? The Joint Statement adopted in the Six-Party Talks in September 2005 has provided the single most comprehensive scenario to date. If everything envisioned in that statement comes to pass, we will have a world in which: North Korea has abandoned its nuclear weapons programs and […]

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