Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Daniel Okimoto on Japan’s recent economic growth
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Daniel I. Okimoto is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, and Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute for Internation... Read More
Victor Shih on Chinese Currency Stabilization
Victor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identif... Read More
Sheila Smith on U.S.-Japan Relations
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe of Japan share a laugh with members of the U.S. delegation, as they meet for their bilateral meeting, Friday, May 26, 2017, at the Hotel Villa Dio... Read More
Mike Mochizuki on Japan’s Snap Election
The photo, from July of 2016, shows Yuriko Koike campaigning for Tokyo’s special gubernatorial election. Mike M. Mochizuki holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the E... Read More
Manisha Priyam on the Indian Toilet Crisis
Dr. Manisha Priyam is an academic and researcher, and she works on issues of development and politics in India. She has a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in ... Read More
Derek Scissors on US foreign investment and national security
Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chie... Read More
Stephen Haggard on China-North Korea trade
The Friendship Bridge which spans across the Yalu River from Dandong, China and Sinuju, North Korea. At night, the bridge on the Chinese side is completely lit up, but as it extends into North Korea i... Read More
Danielle N. Lussier on Indonesia’s blasphemy law
Indonesian Muslims reciting Al Quran after shalat (prayer). Istiqlal Mosque, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. Danielle N. Lussier is an assistant professor in political science at Grinnell College, Iowa. H... Read More
Jae H. Ku on North Korean defectors
Jae H. Ku is the Director of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS. Before joining the U.S.-Korea Institute, he was the Director of the Human Rights in North Korea Project at Freedom House. Dr. Ku holds ... Read More