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  1. South Koreans participate in a rally to denounce Japan's new trade restrictions and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on August 24, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea.
    Japan and South Korea on the Brink: International Affairs and Trade Relations Experts Elucidate the Conflict between the Two U.S. Allies
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    The recent escalation of diplomatic and trade disputes between South Korea and Japan has alarmed numerous observers and is rather confusing to many around the world to whom the two countries seem to have much to lose and little to gain by the deterioration of the bilateral relationship. What underlying forces are driving the conflict? Are these new forces, or the same historical forces coming to a head?
  2. Gi-Wook Shin standing at Podium at Innovation Conference
    Stanford Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference Examines New Pathways for Aging Societies
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    The world is “graying” at an unprecedented rate. According to the UN’s World Population Prospects 2019, the number of persons over the age of 65 is growing the fastest and expected to more than double by 2050, then triple in another 50 years’ time.
  3. U.S. Navy Patrols Philippines Sea
    Experts Discuss Future of the International Order in East Asia
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    “For seven decades our thinking about Indo-Asia-Pacific security and international cooperation issues has been underpinned by the narratives of a U.S.-led international order centered around the rule of law, economic openness, and multilateralism. Now this post-WWII order is being challenged.”
  4. Chinese worker examines panel on machinery
    Do Innovation Subsidies Make Chinese Firms More Innovative?
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    Motivated by the realization that China’s economic growth model is about to become obsolete, the Chinese government has been using various subsidies to encourage innovations by Chinese firms. This study examines the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES).
  5. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) celebrates with Shigeru Ishiba, the former defence minister who ran against him, after winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership contest on September 20, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
    Abenomics, Seven Years In: Has It Succeeded?
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    In September 2018, Shinzo Abe won a party election, thereby securing his third consecutive term as president of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and getting closer to becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the country’s postwar history.
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