The Tokyo summit marks not bloc-building in Eurasia, but Central Asia’s deliberate move to deepen its strategic autonomy ...

Transportation infrastructure development, decarbonisation and people-to-people exchanges were highlighted as three priority areas, in a joint declaration after the C5+ Japan summit, that took place ...

It underscores a wider strategic calculus by Beijing, which is shaped by tensions with Japan and the US. Read more at ...

Masayuki Masuda, who leads the China division at Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies, and John Chuan Tiong Lim, a research fellow at Tokyo University’s Institute for Advanced Studies on ...