Security Nexus paper on Northeast Asia’s Military Tech & South Korean Defense Implications

By |2023-08-18T13:35:24-10:00August 17, 2023|Categories: Security Nexus, news|Tags: , , , , , |

A recent Security Nexus paper titled “Emerging New Military Technologies in Northeast Asia and Implications for South Korean Defense Strategy” by retired Navy Captain Sukjoon Yoon, ROKN, highlights the escalating pursuit of advanced military technologies in Northeast Asia amid [...]

New Policy Brief on China’s Nuclear Modernization and Northeast Asian Security

By |2025-06-04T14:27:42-10:00July 31, 2023|Categories: Kim, Publications, news|Tags: , , |

In a new policy brief published in the ASIA-Pacific Leadership network, DKI APCSS Prof. Lami Kim examines the implications of China’s nuclear weapons build-up on Northeast Asian security. Kim argues that the threat lies less in direct nuclear risk [...]

Has China’s Economic Development Led to the Democratization of China?

By |2023-01-06T14:27:10-10:00January 6, 2023|Categories: Faculty Articles, news, Cho|Tags: , , |

Dr.Sungmin Cho has published a new article titled “Does China’s Case Falsify Modernization Theory? Interim Assessment,” in the Journal of Contemporary China. Using the political science theory of modernization, Dr. Cho revisits the question of whether China's economic development [...]

Vietnam’s Approach to China: Bamboo Diplomacy with Neo-tributary Characteristics

By |2025-06-04T15:08:03-10:00December 3, 2022|Categories: Vuving, Publications, news|Tags: , , |

This article discusses China’s efforts in strengthening China-Vietnam relations and Vietnam’s use of bamboo diplomacy to keep China at arm’s length without coming across as an adversary. According to Vuving, Vietnam’s Communist Party chief, Nguyen Phu Trong, used bamboo as a metaphor to advocate for a foreign policy “that combines flexibility in tactics and firmness in principles, thus resulting in resilience.”

The U.S.-China Power Transition: An assessment of China’s internal view

By |2025-06-04T13:23:46-10:00March 28, 2022|Categories: Publications, news, Cho|Tags: , , , |

Dr.Sungmin Cho has a new paper titled “The U.S.-China Power Transition: An assessment of China’s internal view” published in the Melbourne Asia Review. According to Cho, “It is vital to understand how Chinese policymakers and analysts view the regional [...]

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