In This Issue

A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities for Engagement (Introduction)

Opportunity Seldom Knocks Twice Influencing China’s Trajectory via Defend Forward and Persistent Engagement in Cyberspace

Russia–South Korea Relations and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy

The State of Political Islam in Indonesia The Historical Antecedent and Future Prospects

Saori N. Katada’s Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific

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Emerging Voices on the New Normal

The U.S.-China relationship was already becoming more antagonistic before the onset of the pandemic. With the emergence of Covid-19, the schism between the two countries became even more severe.

—Naima Green-Riley in “Pandemic Persuasions? American Public Opinion and U.S.-China Relations”

People's Liberation Army

Securing the China Dream: The PLA’s Role in a Time of Reform and Change

The chapters in this volume were originally presented as papers at the 2017 People’s Liberation...

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Plenum Means Full: How the October “Fifth Plenum” Filled China’s Agenda

William C. McCahill Jr.

Commentary

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Global Health R&D

Burden and Boon: What Covid-19 Means for Global Health R&D

Melinda Moree

Interview

NIAID

Indo-Pacific Security

Exploring India's Strategic Futures

Arzan Tarapore

The Next Steps for U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateralism

Jennifer Lind

A New U.S. Strategy for the Indo-Pacific

Roger Cliff

The New Normal in Asia

The Same Old Normal for Climate Action in Post-Pandemic Southeast Asia

Margareth Sembiring

Balancing the Costs of Covid-19

Jonathan W. Greenert

Will Xi Jinping’s Strongman Rule Leave China Weaker after the Pandemic?

William C. McCahill Jr.

What’s Past Is Prologue

Ann Marie Murphy

Expert Spotlight

Dennis C. Blair

Member of the Board of Directors
Co-chair of the IP Commission

Uncharted Territory: Asian Security after Covid-19

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Maritime Issues

The Comprehensive Military Agreement and South Korea's Maritime Security

China's Assertive Behavior in the South China Sea and the Implications for India

The Role of Fishing Disputes in China–South Korea Relations

The Law of the Sea and South Korea: The Challenges of Maritime Boundary Delimitation in the Yellow Sea

South Korea in a Challenging Maritime Security Environment

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Remembering Bill Gates Sr.

(November 30, 1925–September 14, 2020)

William H. Gates Sr. was a friend of NBR who played a central leadership role in launching the Pacific Health Summit, a meeting that annually convened 250 top leaders from science, industry, and policy to discuss how to realize the dream of a healthier future. NBR served as Secretariat for the Summit from its inception in 2004 through the concluding meeting in 2012.