EAI Holds Mentoring Camp for Scholarship Students EAI selected 15 students to receive scholarships and EAI held a ceremony and mentoring camp for the awardees on February 5, 2016. The camp is designed to provide the EAI scholarship students with useful advice rather than leaving them to face their concerns alone.    January 2016 UCR Briefing: The World’s Firemen? A new trend is emerging with the U.S. and China joining to address the world’s most urgent crises. While whether or not the two countries can evolve together into the “world’s firemen” is yet to be seen, the two are still trying to prevent sparks in their own relationship.    New Solutions for the North Korean Nuclear Issue Through EAI’s knowledge-net a group of experts were convened to discuss nuclear North Korea. They argue for leaving behind the ineffective cycle of sanctions and dialogue and instead call for a new diplomatic strategy that encourages North Korea to choose to denuclearize. (in Korean)    Japan and Geo-Economic Regionalism in Asia: The Rise of TPP and AIIB The response of the Korean and Japanese governments to the TPP and the AIIB have been different. Terada Takashi (Doshisha University) argues that in the midst of deepening confrontation between the U.S. and China, Japan and the U.S. are pursuing a balancing act in East Asia.    UN Human Rights Council and Its Impact on the North Korean Human Rights Issue The 31st regular session of the UN Human Rights Council will be held soon and North Korean human rights will be on the agenda. Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) takes a look at how power politics between China and the West is affecting the North Korea human rights issue.    China’s High-speed Rail Diplomacy: Global Impacts and East Asian Responses China has begun exporting its rail products as a part of the New Silk Roads initiative. Gerald Chan (University of Auckland) suggests that the impact of this mammoth enterprise will be significant in terms of geopolitics, geoeconomics, and social relations.    Jan Melissen of ‘Clingendael’ Visits EAI EAI was proud to host Jan Melissen, a Senior Research Fellow at EAI’s longtime partner the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael,’ on January 26, 2016. Dr. Melissen held a roundtable discussion on “Digital Diplomacy” with EAI interns.