Weekly Pacific Bulletin
Wednesday
13th May
2020
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Tensions in Port Moresby Tensions in Port Moresby rose after a senior police…
China
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 22 July
Wednesday
22nd July
2020
In this week’s Pacific bulletin, Tess Newton Cain looks at COVID-19 update, unemployment support progress in the northern Pacific, PNG…
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 29 July
Wednesday
29th July
2020
In this week’s Pacific bulletin, Tess Newton Cain looks at the rise of COVID-19 numbers in PNG, Vanuatu celebrates 40…
Australian Grand Strategy, China and security
Wednesday
1st July
2020
As conversation about Australia’s public policy response to Beijing’s increasing antagonism towards the nation continues to evolve, Dr Peter Layton,…
Australia’s defence strategic update: It’s all about China
Thursday
6th August
2020
Driven by deepening worries over China’s growing assertiveness, Australia is rethinking its defence strategy, force structure and posture. This has…
The South China Sea gentlemen’s competition: The USS Lassen transit round
Monday
23rd November
2015
PETER LAYTON | In a recent post Kai He insightfully examined the recent transit by the USS Lassen close…
Contested air superiority returns to the Asia-Pacific
Monday
15th February
2016
PETER LAYTON | In a previous century the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) did not always fly technologically advanced aircraft…
The third age of Australian Defence White Papers continues
Friday
11th March
2016
PETER LAYTON | There’s always a certain anticlimax when the latest Defence White Paper is released. The once-feverish anticipation eases…
Security shouldn’t trump economics on the Ausgrid sale
Wednesday
24th August
2016
PETER LAYTON | Security trumps economics, or so the Ausgrid saga seems to have taught us. But maybe this framing…
China’s great big, very capable fighter force
Tuesday
12th April
2016
PETER LAYTON | China’s rapid economic growth over the last two decades has allowed the country to significantly modernise its…