Reforming the UN Security Council stands as a key barometer for assessing the international system`s transition from a post-Cold War US hegemony to a more multipolar distribution of economic and military power.

Despite a brief period of time last year that suggested otherwise, it seems that the United States will continue to view its foreign policy towards Myanmar through the lens of human rights and not realpolitik.

According to the Washington Post, a top US official has submitted a list of Chinese companies and banks that are breaking UN sanctions on Iran to the Chinese authorities.

The recent passage of a US law that allows for the executive branch to enact trade sanctions on China for currency manipulation stands as a clear sign that the Obama administration is getting serious about the value of the yuan.

On the surface, the energy deals signed between China and Russia suggest that economic interdependence will create an unwavering solidarity moving forward. The reality of the situation however is far more complicated.

ASEAN could provide the leverage that smaller South East Asian countries need in their border negotiations with China in the South China Sea.

Beneath all of the historical score-settling that is driving a meteoric crash in relations between China and Japan there is a simple reality: China is attempting to fill strategic space that the US-Japanese alliance currently occupies. 

The anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII has come and gone with two noteworthy developments: no visits from the Japanese cabinet to the Yasukuni Shrine and a strongly-worded apology from Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

The US Department of Defense has submitted its annual report on Chinese military power to Congress.

With the Chinese government jumping in to protect North Korea from international fallout over the sinking of the Cheonan, it should come as no real surprise that the two allies have united in their disdain for planned US-South Korean military exercises.