The Republic of Korea and Japan are two most important security allies of the United States in East Asia, yet they lack substantial defense cooperation between each other. This thesis looks at the current condition of ...

This paper attempts to explain why China still allow some people to use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass China’s heavily guarded Internet content censorship system, despite the assumption that the free flow of ...

Since normalization in 1965, bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea have been perennially mired in historical acrimony. However, in December 2015, the South Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministries consummated ...

Former Chinese President Hu Jintao launched campaigns to promote a more “scientific” development between 2002 and 2012 in order to build a “harmonious society”, indicating his determination to shift toward a more equitable, ...

In late 2015, the Chinese Communist Party arrested scores of labor activists and rights defense lawyers and revoked the licenses of labor NGOs. While many scholars have labeled the attack on the labor movement as a part ...

Why has the Abe administration maintained its defense spending at 1 percent of its GDP despite the deteriorating regional security environment, conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s willingness to play an active role ...