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China's contest with the global community has entered a delicate phase post the COVID-19 period. While the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the non-responsible act of China in tackling the virus to prevent its spread outside the country, the recent aggression of the Chinese leadership on land and maritime domains in Asia has revealed the long-term international objectives of China's ambitious foreign policy under Xi Jinping. As China attempts to rebuild its global image and profile post the pandemic and, most importantly, to reorder its global governance approach, Beijing may like to revitalise its focus on its Guanxi (relationship or networks) and Mingyun Gongtongti or 'the Community with a Shared Future for Humankind' (CHSF). In other words, China's approach to Asia may take a new turn without Beijing shying away from its original intentions of dictating the Asian order.

This book focuses on the scope, potential and future of the India-Japan-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trilateral. Through this book, contributors examine the strategic and global partnership between India and Japan and the collaboration with ASEAN. Analysing contemporary strategic issues in the Indo-Pacific, the book takes up the complex link between security and economics. It offers a thorough understanding on how the major Asian powers, India and Japan, cooperate and coordinate with the ASEAN. It delves into few critical questions: Is there a scope for India-Japan-ASEAN triangularity in the Indo-Pacific? Can a formal or institutional cooperation be forged between these three actors? What specific cooperation could India and Japan forge with ASEAN as an institution? To what extent can each ASEAN member independently become a partner with India and Japan? A novel assessment of the post-pandemic economic and political balancing and restructuring, this book will be of interest to Asian politics, international relations, strategic studies, regional organizations in Asia and think tanks specializing in foreign policy, security studies, international trade and economics.

Critical Perspectives -- America's Conflicted Strategy for the Korean Peninsula : From "Fire and Fury" to "Denuclearization" / Donald Kirk -- China's Relations with North Korea : Surmounting the "Great Wall" / Anurag Vishwanath -- Japan's Security Pledge in the Korean Peninsula / Kohtaro Ito -- The Twists and Turns of Russia's Relations with North Korea / Georgy Bulychev & Valeriia Gorbacheva -- Contending Perspectives -- Denuclearization and Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula : Perspectives of the Two Koreas / Jina Kim -- Korean Peninsula and the Evolving Sino-US Strategic Stability in the Indo-Pacific / Kuyoun Chung -- DPRK's Proliferation Activities and the Denuclearization Talks : Security in the Indo-Pacific and Beyond / Lami Kim -- Russia and the Two Koreas / Archana Upadhyay -- Mongolia and the Northeast Asian Peace Process / Alicia Campi -- India and the Korean Peninsula: Between Dialogue, Diplomacy and Denuclearization / Jagannath P. Panda & Mrittika Guha Sarkar.

This book assesses the strategic linkages that the Korean Peninsula shares with the Indo-Pacific and provides a succinct picture of issues which will shape the trajectory of the Korean Peninsula in the future.This book analyses how critical actors such as the United States, China, Russia and Japan are caught in a tightly balanced power struggle affecting the Korean Peninsula. It shows how these countries are exerting control over the Korean Peninsula while also holding on to their status as critical actors in the broader Indo-Pacific. The prospects of peace, stability and unity in the Korean Peninsula and the impact of this on Indo-Pacific power politics are explored as well as the contending and competing interests in the region. Chapters present country-specific positions and approaches as case studies and review the impact of power politics on stakeholders' relationships in the Indo-Pacific. The book also argues that the Korean Peninsula and the issue of denuclearization is of primary importance to any direction an Indo-Pacific Partnership may take.Bringing together scholars, journalists and ex-diplomats, this book will be of interest to academics working in the field of international relations, foreign policy, security studies and Asian studies as well as audiences interested

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Equations and equilibrium in Asia -- a primer; Part I Bilateral perspectives; 1 Chinese perspectives on India's rise; China's world: Self-image and vision; Xi's dream: China as number one; India is "an artificial British creation"; Tibet and the territorial dispute; India rising: "India cannot compete with China" ("yindu neng bi ma?"); The India challenge; Chinese checkers 2.0

"This book analyses the structure of the India-China relationship and the two prominent powers' positions with and against each other, bilaterally and globally, in a complex Asian environment and beyond. India and China's perceptions of one another are evaluated to reveal how the order of Asia is influenced by engaging in different power equations that affect equilibrium and disequilibrium. Contributors address three critical perspectives of India and China in Asia which are increasingly shaping the future of Asia and impacting the Indo-Pacific power balance. Firstly, they examine the mutual perceptions of India and China as an integral part of Asia's evolving politics and the impact of this on the emerging Asian order and disorder. Secondly, they assess how classical and contemporary characteristics of the India-China border and beyond-border disputes or conflicts are shaping Asia's political trajectory and leaving an impact on the Indo-Pacific region. Finally, contributors observe the prevailing power equations in which India and China are currently engaged in to reveal that they are not only geographically limited to the Asian region. Instead, having a strong global or inter-continental character attached to it, the India-China relationship involves extra-territorial powers and extra-territorial regions. This book will be of interest to academics, students and policy makers working on Asian Studies, International Relations, the Area studies discipline, emerging powers studies, strategic studies, security studies and conflict studies"--