East Asia’s New Year Resolutions

If there is to be a genuinely durable peace in East Asia, the region’s leaders need to work harder and more courageously to achieve it. Each of them could pursue game-changing initiatives in 2015 if only they could summon the necessary statesmanship.

SEOUL – If World War III ever breaks out, its origins will not lie in the Middle East, South Asia, or Eastern Europe. It is in East Asia – where the strategic interests of China, the United States, and their respective partners intersect – that the geopolitical stakes, diplomatic tensions, and potential for a global explosion are highest.

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