(Photo Credit: Flickr/US Department of State) (BGF) - In this article, featured in The Diplomat, Jin Kai addresses the challenges facing the U.S. effort to reinvent its relations with China. Kai notes that Max Baucus, the new U.S. Ambassador to China, strives to...

(Photo Credit: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) (BGF) - Earlier this year the Chinese Foreign Minister, Fu Ying, remarked that China's relationship with Japan was "at its worst". Taking that statement as his starting point Ian Bremmer analyzes China and Japan's current...

                              (Photo Credit: MARK RALSTON/RIE ISHII/AFP/Getty Images)(BGF) - In this article, featured in The Globalist, J.D. Bindenagel looks to Europe in 1914 in an attempt to distill lessons for Chinese-Japanese relations. As Bindenagel notes, the...

(Photo Credit: Flickr/The White House) (BGF) - Often, the current relationship between the U.S. and China is viewed as a Thucydidean Trap - essentially a struggle for power between two powers. In this article Shannon Tiezzi looks back at the U.S.-Chinese diplomacy and...

(Photo Credit: Reuters) (BGF) - Recently BU Today published an article by Thomas U. Berger, Associate Professor of International relations at Boston University. In this article Professor Berger discussed the U.S.-Japanese security relationship and China's increasingly...

(BGF) - In this article, J.D. Bindenagel assesses Russia's actions in the Ukraine through the lens of Putin's experience in East Germany in 1989. During his time as KGB officer, Putin was stationed in East Germany during the German democratic revolution that...