Christian Enemark writes that the expansion of interest and investment in biotechnology in East Asia is being driven mainly by infectious disease challenges, economic interests, and security concerns about biological weapons. A key challenge will be to ensure strict biosafety measures extend to all new laboratories - it would be tragically ironic if a leaky...

Countries participating in the first East Asia Summit will be the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. In this e-brief Frank Frost and Ann Rann provide...

After a brief overview of economic developments and political issues, the paper discusses China’s overall approaches in foreign policy and its relations with the United States, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific.