The economic rationale for Hambantota is weak , given existing capacity and expansion plans at Colombo port, fueling concerns that it could become a Chinese naval facility.

CSIS has commissioned seven experts to unpack the economic and geostrategic implications of China’s infrastructure development across the Indo-Pacific region under the Maritime Silk Road.

This article examines several economic criteria that should be used when analyzing port projects associated with the Maritime Silk Road Initiative.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the United States later this week for a two-day summit meeting with President Trump aimed at reaffirming the importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship for both countries. They will meet at the White House on February 10 and then...

Much ink has been spilled on the Obama administration’s bungled response to China’s proposed new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Most commentators have criticized the administration for making much ado about nothing. I disagree: important policy...

China faces increasing economic headwinds that call into question not only its near-term growth outlook but the longer-term sustainability of its economic success.

The Chinese economy is off to a bumpy start in 2015. The International Monetary Fund is projecting real growth of 6.8 percent this year, the slowest in a quarter century.

Earlier this month, China reported 7.4 percent GDP growth for 2014, missing Premier Li Keqiang’s 7.5 percent target but still defying predictions of inevitable deeper slowing. With an additional $800 billion in annual output, China joined the United States as only the...

Opinion surveys demonstrate that a majority of Americans consider Asia the most important region to U.S. interests, and a majority of Asia experts support the Obama administration’s goal of a “pivot” or “rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific region.

All overseas trips by U.S. presidents have significance, but next month’s tour of the Asia-Pacific region by President Barack Obama is more important than most. Coming just days after his final national elections, Obama’s visits to China, Myanmar, and Australia...

George Bernard Shaw called second marriage “the triumph of hope over experience.”  In restoring the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its leader Shinzo Abe to power last month, Japanese voters seemed to be sending the opposite message: after three years of...