Year: Present | 2001 | 2000 | 1990s

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General

• Can 9-11 Provide a Fresh Start for Sino-U.S. Relations?
  A viewpoint by Phillip Saunders.
  Created: October 23, 2001

• The War on Terrorism: China's Opportunities and Dilemmas
  By Jing-dong Yuan.
  Created: September 26, 2001

• American and Chinese Strategists Ought to Sit Down and Talk
  Phillip C. Saunders and Evan S. Medeiros
  "The recent spy plane incident revealed the degree of mistrust and suspicion on both sides. Without such a framework, decisions on missile defenses or arms sales to Taiwan could spark a downward spiral in relations."
  Created: May 11, 2001

• Japanese Views on Security Issues
  Washington D.C. Office 2002 Briefing Series, March 29, 2001.
  Created: 2001

• Rebuilding Bilateral Consensus: Assessing U.S.-China Arms Control and Nonproliferation Achievements (PDF format)
  A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.1.
  by Evan S. Medeiros.
  Created: Spring 2001

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CBW

• Chronology of Aum Shinrikyo's CBW Activities
  "Six years ago, on March 20, 1995, five members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) boarded subway trains in Tokyo, Japan, and released the deadly chemical nerve agent sarin." A report by Tim Ballard, Jason Pate, Gary Ackerman, and Sean Lawson.
  Updated: March 15, 2001
  Created: March 13, 2001

• The "Yellow Rain" Controversy: Lessons for Arms Control Compliance (PDF format)
  Part of a special section for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.1.
  by Jonathan B. Tucker.
  Created: Spring 2001

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Missile

• Thunder in the Air: Taiwan and Theater Missile Defense (PDF format)
  A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.3.
  by Wei-chin Lee
  Created: Fall-Winter 2001

• Theater Missile Defense and Northeast Asian Security
  The growth of missile capabilities in Northeast Asia has led to increased interest in ways of defending against short- and medium-range missiles. However, research, development, and potential deployment of theater missile defense (TMD) systems in Northeast Asia raises a complex set of issues affecting economic, political, and security relations in East Asia and beyond. An issue brief by Evan Medeiros and Phillip Saunders for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
  Created: August 2001

• Ballistic Missile Defense and Northeast Asian Security: Views from Washington, Beijing and Tokyo
  This report presents the content, tone and essence of the discussions conducted during the conference series "Ballistic Missile Defense in Northeast Asia: Implications for Security Relations Among the Regional Powers," which engaged a wide variety of experts from the United States, China and Japan to gain insights on the security implications of US missile defense plans.
  Created: April 18, 2001

• China's Opposition to US Missile Defense Programs
  China has always opposed missile defenses, but its opposition has become more vocal in recent years as the United States has accelerated its national missile defense (NMD) program and sought to expand theater missile defense (TMD) cooperation with Japan and Taiwan. Chinese opposition to US missile defense programs is based on both historical and substantive concerns about the danger of nuclear blackmail, the United States' superpower status, US alliances, Japan's military potential and US military aid to Taiwan.
  Upated: April 2001

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Nuclear

• The Costs and Benefits of Japan's Nuclearization: An Insight into the 1968/70 Internal Report (PDF format)
  An article for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.2.
  by Yuri Kase.
  Created: Summer 2001

• South Korea's Shifting and Controversial Interest in Spent Fuel Reprocessing (PDF format)
  A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.1.
  by Jungmin Kang and H.A. Feiveson.
  Created: Spring 2001