The next rulers of China will be revealed this week, but a clear picture has yet to emerge as to what the new Politburo Standing Committee will look like.

China is at a turning point, one that will influence the future of Asian defense policy for decades to come.

Recent comments on US plans to deploy X-Band radar stations in southern Japan and possibly Southeast Asia suggest that the Obama administration’s ‘Asia Pivot’ is gaining momentum.

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will convene this autumn as the culmination of a secretive transfer of power at the very top of the Communist Party (CCP).

The standoff playing out between China and the Philippines over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea may one day be looked back on as the harbinger of a renewed American military presence in the Philippines.

With China determined to uphold its ‘core’ national interests, and the US and others equally committed to, for instance, freedom of navigation through the South China Sea, it only needs a spark to ignite a prairie fire

The Republic of Seychelles has issued China with an open invitation to establish an anti-piracy base in the small island republic. If accepted, this invitation will have security and strategic consequences for the region.

When Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko stated that Japanese-Chinese relations should become “win-win," he expressed his intention to improve bilateral ties. Nevertheless, the percentage of Japanese who feel unfavorably toward China has increased from 72 percent in 2010 to 80 percent in 2011.

Peaceful Rise, containment, encirclement, the ‘China Threat’ theory- though the times change the language stays the same. Experts are asking the same questions they were thirty years ago about China’s rise and the impact it will have on international society. It’s high time we throw away the rulebook of historical analogies and accept that this scenario is something completely different.

Peaceful Rise, containment, encirclement, the ‘China Threat’ theory- though the times change the language stays the same.