Welcome to all our readers! As Term 1 comes to a close, which hopefully has been going well amid tumultuous international events and particularly cold weather, The Diplomacy Review looks toward the East of Suez. The recent political attention on Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as the Western response to these crises, has led to a negligence of the significant political developments occurring in East Asia. We hope our edition, in collaboration with the UCL Asiatic Affairs Society, will help to shine a light on the pressing issues and affairs of this part of the world.

 

This edition will accompany an exciting journalism conference on East Asia, where the UCL Diplomacy Society is collaborating with the Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs to host the learned insights of ambassadors and professors alongside student journalists and researchers! 

 

We would like to thank the Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs for their invaluable help in organising this event, and we hope our collaboration continues to grow. Thank you to the wonderful designers for the beautiful cover. And finally, thank you to all the authors and editors involved in this issue; the journal could not exist without your enthusiasm and dedication.

Ryosuke Kohatsu and Javeria Ahmed

Chief and Deputy Editor, UCL Diplomacy Society