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Asia Dispatches offers insights and opinions on current events and geopolitical dynamics in Asia, U.S. policy and strategy toward the region, and related issues.

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Self-service temperature taking screening station at local town community centre.

What the U.S. Can Learn from Asia’s Coronavirus Response

By Alex Long on March 31, 2020

Will COVID Redefine the East Asian Miracle?

By Shihoko Goto on March 24, 2020

What Coronavirus Means for South Asia

By Michael Kugelman on March 17, 2020

Will the Coronavirus be Xi’s Chernobyl?

By Abraham Denmark on March 10, 2020

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Abraham Denmark

Abraham Denmark

Director, Asia Program

Michael Kugelman

Michael Kugelman

Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia

Shihoko Goto

Shihoko Goto

Deputy Director for Geoeconomics and Senior Associate for Northeast Asia, Asia Program

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Jean H. Lee

Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Marvin Ott

Marvin Ott

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Self-service temperature taking screening station at local town community centre.

What the U.S. Can Learn from Asia’s Coronavirus Response

By Alex Long on March 31, 2020

Volunteers from Pohang City are conducting COVID-19 disinfection on the morning of March 15, 2020, in Ocheon-eup, Pohang-si, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Will COVID Redefine the East Asian Miracle?

By Shihoko Goto on March 24, 2020

A banner in Urdu language describing the symptoms and precautions for Corona Virus at City railway Station - Karachi, Pakistan.

What Coronavirus Means for South Asia

By Michael Kugelman on March 17, 2020

A person and a statue both wear masks on the street to prevent infection from coronovirus during the Chinese New Year in Chengdu, China.

Will the Coronavirus be Xi’s Chernobyl?

By Abraham Denmark on March 10, 2020

People in Chengdu, China wearing facemasks in January 2020.

Economics and Globalization

Planning for Growth in a Post-Corona Reality

By Shihoko Goto on March 3, 2020

Pakistani children packed into an overcrowded schoolroom.

Thoughts on the World Bank’s ‘Learning Poverty’

By Nadia Naviwala on February 25, 2020

Three JMSDF planes in flight with Mount Fuji in the background.

Security and Defense

Myths and Realities of Japan’s Security Policy

By Narushige Michishita on February 18, 2020

A bottle of herbal medicine sold in North Korea.

Coronavirus, Korea and Nuclear Weapons: What Shutting Its Borders Could Mean For North Korea

By Jean H. Lee on February 13, 2020

Han Jin Won, from left, Bong Joon-ho, and Kwak Sin Ae at the Oscars

Arts and Literature

Korea Rising: Why We’re Celebrating Parasite’s Big Oscar Night

By Jean H. Lee on February 11, 2020

New Russian Documents on North Korea, 1972.

Modern Korean History

North Korean Views on Inter-Korean Relations, 1972

By Charles Kraus on February 6, 2020

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