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  • 3 Jul 2020
    • Japan
    • Coronavirus

    Popular Tokyo governor eyes a second term, and maybe more

    Purnendra Jain
    Yuriko Koike’s re-election is almost certain, and with the national government out of favour, she might not stop there.
  • 3 Jul 2020
    • Australia in the World
    • Defence & Security
    • Indonesia

    Australia’s Strategic Update: What it means for Indonesia

    Greta Nabbs-Keller
    Jakarta’s response is likely to be complex and will require deft management by Australian policymakers.
  • 3 Jul 2020
    • International Economy
    • Coronavirus

    COVIDcast: The future of globalisation

    Pascal Lamy , Roland Rajah
    The latest episode in a podcast to discuss the implications of coronavirus for Australia, the region and the world.
  • 3 Jul 2020
    • Australia
    • Myanmar
    • Cambodia
    • Indonesia
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Philippines
    • Southeast Asia
    • Coronavirus
    • Human rights

    Southeast Asian democracies in declining health amid Covid-19

    Melissa Crouch
    An illiberal turn across the region has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Australia should take note.
  • 2 Jul 2020
    • China
    • Hong Kong

    Hong Kong: The finishing blow

    Rowan Callick
    The new legislation marks the completion of Beijing’s total control and surveillance of every quarter of the PRC.
  • 2 Jul 2020
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China
    • India
    • Coronavirus

    Economic diplomacy: Diversification dilemmas

    Greg Earl
    China, India and Australia are all dealing with the costs and risks of reshoring.
  • 2 Jul 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • Australia's Defence Challenges

    Defence Strategic Update 2020: A first assessment

    James Goldrick
    A candid assessment of Australia's challenges, but will the planned measures be enough?
  • 1 Jul 2020
    • China
    • China-India Relations
    • India
    • Technology

    India’s TikTok stars collateral damage in Chinese app ban

    Aarti Betigeri
    The move signals that decades of appeasement towards China by a succession of Indian leaders is coming to an end.
  • 1 Jul 2020
    • United States
    • China
    • Canada

    Canada won’t fall for China’s hostage diplomacy

    Grant Wyeth
    Releasing Meng Wanzhou wouldn’t raise Canada’s standing with China. Worse, it would betray its closest partner.
  • 1 Jul 2020

    Morrison’s defence reset

    Sam Roggeveen
    The Prime Minister wants a defence force for a region which is “poorer, more dangerous and more disorderly”.
  • 1 Jul 2020
    • United States
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • South China Sea
    • Asean
    • China

    After ASEAN summit, little change on the South China Sea

    Mark Valencia
    Despite expectations leaders might collectively rebuke China for its latest actions, the message was more uncertain.
  • 30 Jun 2020
    • Pacific Islands
    • United Nations

    Chequebook diplomacy in the Pacific: Not just the big fish

    Alexandre Dayant , Euan Moyle
    Small donors seeking UN Security Council seats are providing more aid to Pacific nations.
  • 30 Jun 2020
    • Asia
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations

    International law takes a step towards Asia

    Aristyo Rizka Darmawan
    With Singapore a venue for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, will more Asian countries use it?
  • 30 Jun 2020
    • China
    • Pakistan
    • Coronavirus
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative

    China’s pipeline dream in Pakistan

    Rahul Jaybhay
    The plan to transport oil across the Himalayas is a logistical nightmare. Post-Covid economics will make it even harder.
  • 29 Jun 2020
    • China and the Pacific
    • China
    • Solomon Islands

    Solomon Islands gets a lesson in Chinese diplomacy

    Joseph D. Foukona
    Thanking Taiwan for aid during the Covid-19 pandemic clashes with the One China policy – at home and in Beijing.
  • 29 Jun 2020
    • China
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative

    China’s charmless offensive

    Mark Beeson
    The shine has come off what was once seen as China’s deft ability to make friends and wield influence.
  • 26 Jun 2020
    • United States
    • Australia

    Vale Owen Harries 1930–2020

    Michael Fullilove
    With admirable chutzpah, Owen believed he could influence the international relations of the most powerful country.
  • 26 Jun 2020
    • Cambodia

    Hun Manet: A Cambodian dynasty?

    Kimkong Heng
    The eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen is being groomed to take over, but still has to convince key political players.
  • 26 Jun 2020
    • Asia
    • Coronavirus

    COVIDcast: Hugh White on Coronavirus and Asia’s power balance

    Hugh White , Sam Roggeveen
    The latest episode in a podcast to discuss the implications of coronavirus for Australia, the region and the world.
  • 26 Jun 2020
    • United States
    • United Nations
    • United Kingdom
    • Africa

    Finding compromise in the Chagos Islands saga

    David Snoxell
    The US base on Diego Garcia needn’t be an obstacle to a negotiated settlement of a longstanding sovereignty dispute.
  • 26 Jun 2020
    • Australia

    Owen Harries: Never the ideologue

    Jacob Heilbrunn
    The Welsh-born Australian was a master controversialist who played a key role in Washington foreign policy debates.
  • 25 Jun 2020
    • Indonesia

    The long wait in Indonesia for a female chief justice in a top court

    Cate Sumner , Leisha Lister
    Indonesia lags in appointing women to key judicial posts and the gender gap in the region is closing at a glacial pace.
  • 25 Jun 2020
    • Technology

    K-pop “stans” unleashed: Hijacking hashtags for social action

    Dymples Leong
    Digital disruption can reflect a growing desire to pair fandom with activism. But such a movement is itself vulnerable.
  • 25 Jun 2020
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Bougainville

    A crowded house on the Bougainville ballot

    Shane McLeod
    With independence negotiations looming, hundreds of candidates are running for house seats, and 25 for president.
  • 25 Jun 2020
    • China's Economy
    • China
    • Review

    Book review: What’s holding China’s economy back?

    John West
    The CCP’s discriminatory hukou system is a great obstacle to changing from world’s factory to a service-driven economy.
  • 24 Jun 2020
    • Australia in the World
    • Australian Public Opinion

    A pivot to globalism, but grievances lurk

    Darren Lim
    Covid-19 has reminded Australians that multilateralism matters, while the economic shock has yet to play out.
  • 24 Jun 2020
    • India
    • Australia
    • Australian Public Opinion

    Australians look to India more – and don’t always like what they see

    Aarti Betigeri
    Doubts about Indian democracy and its politics suggest the Morrison government has some persuading to do.
  • 24 Jun 2020
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australian Public Opinion
    • Climate change
    • Coronavirus

    Australia’s shifting mood on climate change

    Bec Strating
    This year’s intense bushfires seemed like the event that would finally move climate policy. Then came Covid-19.
  • 24 Jun 2020
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Public Opinion

    Generation why? Younger Australians wary of United States

    Natasha Kassam
    Donald Trump is a big part of this story. But there is also a clear gap in attitudes toward China.
  • 23 Jun 2020
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus

    The goals for Australia to do better

    Leanne Smith , Claire E Brolan
    The Sustainable Development Goals are not only for poor nations – they offer a policy roadmap for Australia, too.
  • 23 Jun 2020
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • United States

    Can inter-Korean peace be salvaged from the latest wreckage?

    Khang Vu
    Mismatched expectations pose a big problem on the peninsula.
  • 23 Jun 2020
    • Pacific Islands
    • Institutions
    • Human rights

    Culture, constitution and controversy in Samoa

    Penelope Schoeffel , Malama Meleisea
    What’s behind the proposed bills to codify Samoan customs in law?
  • 23 Jun 2020
    • United Nations
    • Canada

    Woe Canada, a second consecutive UN rebuff

    Ramesh Thakur
    Even in a social media age, substance trumps style. There are lessons for Canberra in Ottawa’s Security Council failure.
  • 22 Jun 2020
    • International Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • United Kingdom

    Australia-UK trade agreement: Good, boring policy

    Dmitry Grozoubinski
    A deal between two liberalised economies on opposite sides of the globe can only improve a small number of pain points.
  • 22 Jun 2020
    • Syria

    Syria: Thumbs down

    Rodger Shanahan
    New sanctions under the so-called Caesar Act might target the regime in Damascus, but the burden will be felt by locals.
  • 22 Jun 2020
    • Australia
    • China
    • India

    Australia should support India in the Himalayas

    David Brewster
    If Canberra wants a “comprehensive strategic partnership” with New Delhi, some courageous steps are needed.
  • 22 Jun 2020
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Technology
    • Coronavirus

    Debt threatens Digicel’s Pacific dominance

    Shane McLeod
    The sprawling telecoms provider is deep in the red, and it might be the company’s PNG profits that help bail it out.
  • 19 Jun 2020
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • China

    Canberra vs Beijing: A response to Sam Roggeveen

    Alan Dupont
    Contrarian views are needed to assess the China risk. And we shouldn’t assume this century will be indisputably China’s.
  • 19 Jun 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • China
    • India
    • China-India Relations

    Lessons from the India-China border clashes

    Abhijnan Rej
    China has effectively signalled a new phase in its territorial strategy, which should give Indo-Pacific watchers pause.
  • 19 Jun 2020
    • Australia
    • Technology

    Morrison’s messages to the “sophisticated state-based cyber actor”

    Ben Scott
    The Prime Minister appears to be sending a warning – that Australia is on to you.
  • 19 Jun 2020
    • Taiwan
    • Coronavirus

    COVIDcast: Foreign Minister Joseph Wu on Taiwan’s place in the world

    Natasha Kassam
    The latest episode in a podcast to discuss the implications of coronavirus for Australia, the region and the world.
  • 19 Jun 2020
    • China
    • Technology
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative

    Belt and Road means big data and facial recognition, too

    Peter Layton
    China is exporting the same social control technology it employs to monitor its own population.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • Pacific Islands

    Hard knocks at University of the South Pacific

    Jonathan Pryke
    Claims and counter-claims of corruption have cast a pall over the management of a key regional institution.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • China
    • India

    India-China: Pressure at altitude

    Ian Hall
    A shocking fight in Galwan Valley leaves India with dangerous choices, while China thinks it has an upper hand.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • Global Economy
    • Coronavirus

    Economic diplomacy: Positive globalism and American exceptionalism

    Greg Earl
    Australia strikes an upbeat attitude to global engagement, while a strong US dollar masks a retreating US.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • United States

    Need To Know: Ed Davis on US policing and Black Lives Matter

    Lydia Khalil
    Many community-minded police leaders complain they are deputised to enforce society’s failures and unfair structures.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • Institutions
    • Australia and Asia

    Closing the book on Asia

    James Spigelman
    The National Library of Australia is curtailing its Southeast Asia collection. The move is not in the national interest.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Public Opinion
    • Timor-Leste
    • Southeast Asia

    Will Timor-Leste be the region’s latest press freedom casualty?

    Jim Nolan
    An new law under the guise of “dignity” would only diminish democracy and transparency in the country.
  • 17 Jun 2020
    • United Nations
    • Asean
    • Myanmar
    • Human rights

    ASEAN Summit: A chance to engage on the Rohingya crisis

    Rebecca Barber , Sarah Teitt
    The regional body has been notably silent on genocide in Myanmar, ducking behind the myth of non-interference.
  • 17 Jun 2020
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China

    Canberra vs Beijing: A reply to Alan Dupont

    Sam Roggeveen
    We can’t base plans for the future on a chance China may fail. We are yet to internalise how successful it may be.
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