Bo Zhiyue, Founder and President of the Bo Zhiyue China Institute, says the 20^th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will determine where China is going in the next five years politically, economically, socially, and diplomatically.

Anastasia Barannikova, Research Fellow at ADM Nevelskoy Maritime State University, argues North Korea’s new nuclear weapons policies contain a number of additions that indicate Pyongyang is reconsidering its regional role, re-imagining the types of relationships it can have not only with its adversaries, but also with friendlier countries such as China and Russia.

Sangkyu Lee, a Republic of Korea (ROK) army officer and Assistant Professor at the Korea Military Academy, says that among the contents of North Korea’s new nuclear weapons law Article 3 sections on nuclear command and control deserve careful attention.