CIAO DATE: 07/06

Center for Strategic and International Studies

 

Comparative Connections V.8 N.1

April, 2006

 

• Regional Overview: Let Freedom (and Democracy) Ring!

• U.S. - Japan: Unfinished Business

• U.S . - China: Discord on the Eve of the Bush-Hu Summit

• U.S . - Korea: Forward on Trade as Nuclear Talks Sputter

• U.S. - Russia: The Lines Are Drawn

• U.S. - Southeast Asia: U.S. Ratchets Up Regionalism and Boosts Ties with Muslim States

• China - Southeast Asia: Progress with Limitations

• China - Taiwan: Missed Opportunities

• North Korea - South Korea: Squally but Steady

• China - Korea: Kim Jong-il Pays Tribute to Beijing – In His Own Way

• Japan - China: Looking Beyond Koizumi

• Japan - Korea: Seirei Ketsuzetsu (Cold Politics, Warm Economics)

• China - Russia: China's Year of Russia and the Gathering Nuclear Storm