By Mayuko Maeda In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which is a human…
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Asia Report #60 | April 18, 2023 Introduction The resiliency of supply chains in the Indo-Pacific now poses a central challenge for the United States…
Policy Alert #254 | March 31, 2023 Last week, from March 20-22, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow for…
Policy Alert #253 | March 16, 2023 While the G20 Summit in New Delhi is only set to take place in September, it was already…
February 14, 2023 In January 2023, a little-noticed naval exercise took place between the U.S. and Sri Lanka in the strategically located Trincomalee port and…
Policy Alert #252 | January 26, 2023 The relationships and power dynamics between China, India, Japan and Russia in 2022 were shaped by the Russian…
Policy Alert #251 | November 10, 2022 The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (NCCPC) was heavily scrutinized in international media given…
Policy Alert #249 | September 8, 2022 On August 16 at 8:20 am local time, the Yuan Wang 5, a Chinese ship, docked in…
Policy Alert #248 | April 11, 2022 On April 7, after graphic images emerged of civilian killings in the city of Bucha just outside Kyiv,…
Policy Alert #247 | March 24, 2022 Today marks one month since Russia ordered a “special military operation” and advanced into Ukraine on February 24,…
Policy Alert #246 | February 28, 2022 On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin formally recognized the independence of the southeastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk…
Policy Alert #245 | February 11, 2022 In the run-up to the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China had insisted on keeping politics and sports separate.…
Policy Alert #244 | January 28, 2022 As more than 100,000 Russian troops amass near Ukraine’s borders, tensions between Ukraine and Russia are heightening. Vladimir…
Policy Alert #243 | January 13, 2022 The Rising Powers have largely managed to keep the highly contagious Omicron at bay even as the variant…
Policy Alert #242 | December 13, 2021 On December 9-10, 2021, US President Joe Biden hosted the virtual Summit for Democracy focused on three pillars:…
