Jason Miks
Jason Miks is editor of The Diplomat. Now based in the United States, Jason spent almost six years in Tokyo covering Asian international relations, security and defence for a range of publications including Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Yomiuri, The American Spectator, World Politics Review and Total Politics, among others. He is also managing editor of the US-based Center for International Relations’ International Affairs Forum.
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Predicting the Unpredictable
China’s rise is only the most remarkable of the many extraordinary stories of Asia’s emergence, says Jason Miks in the first in a special series of essays on the Asia-Pacific's future.
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Ma’s Backdoor China Embrace
The trade deal between China and Taiwan is about much more than economics. China admits it, so why won’t Taiwan’s president?
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Bioterrorism in Asia
The dramatically titled World at Risk report released in December 2008 by a US congressional commission predicting that a bioterrorist attack is likely in the next five years may have been aimed primarily at a domestic American audience, but it has also served to remind Asian nations of their vulnerability.
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Asian Space Race
India's launch in late October 2008 of its first lunar mission marked its ascendancy to an elite group of nations.
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Seaborne again
Japan's constitution may prevent it from possessing an offensive military force, but as the ships on display during the Japan Coast Guard's 60th birthday.
