Pacific Council member Jongsoo Lee interviews Le Hong Hiep, fellow in the Vietnam Studies Program and the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Program at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

As we remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, we cannot take for granted the democratic freedoms we all enjoy and we must continue to fight for and defend the values that are the foundation of our Western democracies, writes Ambassador Carla Sands.

An interview with William Kirby on China’s ambitions, soft power, and education, by Jongsoo Lee.

A change of U.S. administration would bring some changes of emphasis, style, and approach to the U.S.-China relationship, but the agenda and goals will be very similar regardless of who occupies the White House, writes Dane Chamorro.

Clinging to the consensus has won the party little respect from Beijing, while putting it out of step with the majority of Taiwanese opinion, write Derek Grossman and Brandon Alexander Millan.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd discusses the challenges facing the Indo-Pacific, including the many facets of China’s rise, with Jongsoo Lee.

The Trump administration has accomplished in just three years an objective that Beijing has long pursued: reducing U.S. influence in the region by weakening the U.S.-Japan-South Korea partnership, write Mieczysław Boduszyński and Gene Park.

For a Japanese perspective on China’s ascendancy as a military and maritime power, Jongsoo Lee interviews Narushige Michishita, vice president and professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

While Beijing’s most recent threat to Hong Kong will likely end most vestiges of the “one country, two systems” policy, the Special Administrative Region appeared to have already arrived at a critical juncture in its political decline, write Brandon Alexander Millan and Joel S. Fetzer.