Regional wrap
Thursday
4th July
2019
The past fortnight would be best described as surreal and bizarre; surreal because one witnessed leaders of countries seemingly hostile…
Category Archive: Feature series
One small step for a President, one giant leap for Pyongyang
Thursday
4th July
2019
Trump’s unexpected gesture may have been the only way to get talks back on track. US President Donald Trump has…
Asia Future Fellows – Brisbane program 2019
Monday
1st July
2019
The annual Asia Future Fellows Program is a Griffith and Peking University global exchange initiative designed exclusively for undergraduate students…
No longer in a cleft stick: India and Australia in the Indo-Pacific
Friday
28th June
2019
India has assumed far greater prominence in Australian strategic thinking in recent times, as a potential economic and political counterweight…
“It’s not hard to become a political cartoonist from China, because there are only five or six of us”
Tuesday
18th June
2019
The most internationally famous of Australia’s 1.2 million people of Chinese ethnicity “came out” this week. He is the best-known…
Regional wrap
Thursday
20th June
2019
This fortnight, millions of Hong Kongers took to the streets to protest against a proposed bill that would allow…
Ghost of Tiananmen still haunts
Tuesday
4th June
2019
However high China’s skyscrapers soar, however huge the economy grows, however hurriedly the belt and road girdle the earth, the…
Regional wrap
Thursday
6th June
2019
The last fortnight was one of those never-ending ones, where Indo-Pacific watchers witnessed the unfolding of spectacular geopolitical developments with…
Another round in PNG’s great game
Monday
10th June
2019
Papua New Guinea’s new prime minister, James Marape, is virtually unknown in Australia. The lazy excuse is that the country’s…
Japan: From Heisei to Reiwa
Monday
3rd June
2019
Last week, Bruce Miller AO, Australia’s former Ambassador to Japan delivered our Perspectives: Asia seminar reflecting on Japan’s recent imperial transition, and the significance…