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RUSI's Asia project explores the future of peace and security throughout the world's largest and most populous continent.

Many topical policy issues and regions are central to the programme's research agenda. These include China and Japan, nuclearisation in the Korean peninsula, and terrorism and insurgency in Central and South Asia.

In particular, the project works to build links between policy-makers and practitioners in Britain and their counterparts across Asia, and to provide a meeting place for Asian policy-makers to confer and discuss security issues together.

Experts also regularly advise and consult businesses on security risks across Asia's regions and markets.

Contacts

Veerle Nouwens
Research Fellow
Aaditya Dave
Research Analyst

China’s Stock Market Crash Threatens Her Global Power Ambitions

Commentary, 27 August 2015

Jonathan Eyal

China’s stock market crash is not the beginning of a global economic downturn, or the start of a Chinese recession. But it is a reminder of just how fragile China remains, and how far it still is from the status of a global power.

Tags: China, Global Strategy and Commitments, International Security Studies, Asia, Global Security Issues, Pacific

The US-China relationship: on a downward spiral?

Commentary, 29 June 2015

Edward Schwarck

Officials from the US and China put on brave faces at the recently concluded US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Tensions in the maritime and cyber realms, however, are threatening to send the relationship into a downward spiral.

Tags: China, Cyber, United States, Americas, Cyber Security, Global Strategy and Commitments, International Security Studies, Asia, Maritime Forces, Technology, Pacific

Afghanistan Regional Stability: The Role of Chinese and Indian Cooperation

Commentary, 24 June 2015

Over the past three years, RUSI has conducted a research project bringing together influential thinkers from China, India, the UK and Afghanistan in a number of workshops in Beijing, New Delhi and Qatar. The aim was to outline areas of common interest between China and India in Afghanistan. As part of this project, we asked Indian and Chinese researchers to offer their perspectives on where Delhi...

Tags: China, Afghanistan, India, Global Strategy and Commitments, International Security Studies, Asia, Pacific, Central and South Asia

Afghanistan: Can it be a Template for India, China Cooperation?

Commentary, 24 June 2015

Ravi Sawhney and Sushant Sareen

One of the most troubling, but fundamental, questions confronting India is its relationship with China. While India wants a mutually beneficial and cooperative relationship that is conflict-free and cordial, does China want a similar relationship with India?

Tags: China, Afghanistan, India, Asia, Pacific, Central and South Asia

Japan’s PR Strategy: Narratives in the Information Age

Commentary, 20 April 2015

Edward Schwarck

Japan’s more activist security policy is arguably successful in design and implementation. It is, however, failing in how it is being presented to the public.

Tags: Japan, International Security Studies, Asia, Information, Pacific

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: a Test of Leadership for the US and China

Commentary, 17 April 2015

Qingzhen Chen

China has established a global financial institution that focuses on building roads, railways and other key infrastructure projects crucial to development in Asia. Though there are concerns raised by the United States, the formulation of the AIIB ties China further into a multilateral system.

Tags: China, United States, Americas, International Security Studies, Asia, International Institutions, Pacific

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Afghanistan Regional Stability: The Role of Chinese and Indian Cooperation

Commentary, 24 June 2015

Over the past three years, RUSI has conducted a research project bringing together influential thinkers from China, India, the UK and Afghanistan in a number of workshops in Beijing, New Delhi and Qatar. The aim was to outline areas of common interest between China and India in Afghanistan. As part of this project, we asked Indian and Chinese researchers to offer their perspectives on where Delhi...

China, Afghanistan, India, Global Strategy and Commitments, International Security Studies, Asia, Pacific, Central and South Asia

Japan’s PR Strategy: Narratives in the Information Age

Commentary, 20 April 2015

Edward Schwarck

Japan’s more activist security policy is arguably successful in design and implementation. It is, however, failing in how it is being presented to the public.

Japan, International Security Studies, Asia, Information, Pacific

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: a Test of Leadership for the US and China

Commentary, 17 April 2015

Qingzhen Chen

China has established a global financial institution that focuses on building roads, railways and other key infrastructure projects crucial to development in Asia. Though there are concerns raised by the United States, the formulation of the AIIB ties China further into a multilateral system.

China, United States, Americas, International Security Studies, Asia, International Institutions, Pacific

2015: RUSI Experts Examine Year Ahead

Commentary, 17 December 2014

Analysts at the Royal United Services Institute look ahead at the issues affecting defence and security in 2015.

Air Power and Technology, China, United States, Iran, Americas, India, Iraq, Russia, UK Defence Policy, Syria, Terrorism, Defence Policy, UK, Asia, Organised Crime, Organised Crime, Technology, Terrorism, UK Defence, Europe, Pacific, Central and South Asia, Middle East and North Africa

China’s Domestic Insurgency

Commentary, 23 July 2014

Raffaello Pantucci

Five years on from the most lethal rioting seen in China for decades, Beijing has still not managed to refine its strategy towards Xinjiang. Problems in the province increasingly resemble a domestic insurgency needing a comprehensive preventative approach

China, International Security Studies, Asia, Domestic Security, Pacific

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