This article is excerpted from the Chairmen’s Report of a roundtable jointly sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Defense University, and the Institute for Defense Analyses, and jointly authored by Robert A. Manning, Ronald Montaperto, and Brad Roberts.

An earlier version of this article was given as remarks to the Pacific Forum’s Annual Board of Governors Dinner on January 19, 2000 in Hawaii. This appears as the second in a two part series, see PacNet 18, May 5, 2000 for Part 1. Please note that Dr. Perry’s remarks antedate the announcement of the […]

The century we are leaving behind was a remarkable century – full of triumphs – and full of tragedies. The tragedies included the two most destructive wars in history, as well as a cold war. Indeed, if deterrence had not worked, the Cold War could have led to the supreme tragedy – a nuclear holocaust […]

The victory of Democratic Progressive Party leader Chen Shui-bian in Taiwan’s mid-March presidential election was hailed in the international press as a “democratic breakthrough” and a “peaceful revolution” since it overturned more than a half-century of rule by the once-dictatorial Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party. Tokyo might have been expected to look favorably on the transformation […]

The dramatic announcement of an inter-Korean summit provides an opportunity to test the momentum created by North Korea’s pragmatic attempt to develop new relationships with the outside world. ROK President Kim Dae Jung’s Sunshine Policy has supported Pyongyang’s own apparent efforts to reach out to the international community. It is only fitting that North Korea […]

The April 2000 Issue of Comparative Connections is now available:   Regional Overview: Autopilot Is Not Good Enough! U.S.-Japan Relations: The Security Treaty at 40 – Strong but with Complaints about Back Pain U.S.-China Relations: Taiwan Tops the Bilateral Agenda U.S.- Korea Relations: Staying on Course through Election Campaigns U.S.-Russia Relations: Putin’s Russia U.S.-ASEAN Relations: […]

Myth #1: It is impossible to negotiate with North Korea   Ideologically hostile to the outside world, armed with ballistic missiles (perhaps loaded with chemical or biological agents), and capable of building nuclear weapons, North Korea is the world’s poster child for rogue regimes. The North’s aggressive military posture threatens American allies in the region […]

Now what? Now that Taiwan has elected Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as its next President, despite heavy-handed Chinese efforts to discourage such an outcome, what does Beijing do next?

Are the United States and Japan ready for a more equal, mature security partnership? Signs are increasingly pointing to “yes” although both sides still seem more comfortable paying lip service to this concept than to actually pursuing it.

China’s claim to the South China Sea and its islets is so extreme that it is sometimes difficult to take seriously. But we in ASEAN should not underestimate the firmness with which China is pursuing its designs on the Spratlys. Nor should we underestimate the extent of domestic support for Beijing’s chauvinistic foreign policy. We […]