Integration Versus Confrontation:
The Complexity of Sino-Japanese Relations

Mr. Steven Clemons is Senior Fellow and Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, where he previously served as Executive Vice President. He also has been Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute and Senior Policy Advisor for Economic and International affairs to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman. Mr. Clemons also was the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center. In addition, he was Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and in 1983 he co-founded the Japan Policy Research Institute with Asia specialist Chalmers Johnson. Mr. Clemons received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He writes and speaks frequently on domestic and international economic policy matters, and on U.S.-Japan and Asia Pacific economic and security issues.

Mr. Yang Bojiang is Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution, and Professor and Director, Institute for Japanese Studies, and Director, Institute for Korean Peninsula Studies, at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). He is a council member of the Chinese Association for Japanese Studies and a committee member of CSCAP China. Mr. Yang received an M.A. from CICIR and is a currently a Ph.D. candidate. He has published the following articles in Chinese, among others: “Japan in the Process of State-Transition,” Strategic and Security Review 2004-2005, (2005) and “Japan’s Security Strategy and Sino-Japanese Relations in the Early 21st Century,” Japan in the 21st Century: Political and Diplomatic Tendency (2000).