Despite looming troubles--a divided Korea and a divided China--the United States has only two military treaties in Asia, one with Japan, one with South Korea. Hoover fellows Ramon H. Myers and Robert J. Myers make the case for collective security agreements in the Pacific.
The United States wants a military alliance with Japan and a policy of engagement with China, aims that happen to be in conflict. Hoover fellow Charles Wolf Jr. tells how to pull the policy off.
Now that Hong Kong has reverted to the control of mainland China, Hoover media fellow Edward Neilan believes, Western correspondents will begin leaving Hong Kong to base themselves instead in Taiwan. A report from Taipei.
Although you wouldn't know it from reading the Western press, says Hoover fellow Ramon H. Myers, dramatic economic reforms in China are still under way--and the future of Asia depends on their success.
Kim Jong Il was young and untried when in 1994 he succeeded his father as dictator of North Korea. Yet using bluffs, threats, and provocations, he has played the Clinton administration like an old pro. An assessment by Hoover fellow Thomas H. Henriksen.
