It’s dangerous to indulge Kim Jong-un
MICHAEL HEAZLE AND ANDREW O’NEIL | North Korea’s latest missile test is part of a broader strategy to showcase the growing reach of its… Read More
2017
A big step back for Myanmar
ANDREW SELTH | It is always difficult to know exactly what is happening in Myanmar, particularly when eye-witness accounts and reliable reports are dismissed… Read More
Limiting China’s future strategic predominance
PETER LAYTON | Mr Peter Varghese AO, recently retired Department of Foreign Affairs head, has laid out his vision of a possible new regional… Read More
Doklam, the diplomacy of anger, and the Sino-Indian standoff
IAN HALL | The ten-week standoff between Chinese and Indian troops in Doklam, in territory disputed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Bhutan,… Read More
A Contested Asia: What comes after US strategic predominance?
2017 Griffith Asia Lecture by Mr Peter Varghese AO, Chancellor, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 6 September 2017… Read More
Explainer: how international competition affects how much you earn
Low wages growth has been a spectre hanging around the Australian economy for some time. In our series What We Earn we unpick the causes for… Read More
North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are not unstoppable
PETER LAYTON | North Korea has the initiative. It is flying rockets over Japan, it claims to have mounted a hydrogen bomb on to… Read More
The Belt and Road to China-based globalisation
COLIN MACKERRAS | At a time when globalisation from the West appears to be in retreat, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a… Read More
Modi’s foreign policy under pressure
IAN HALL | It is hard to remember now, but before Narendra Modi came to power in May 2014, many reputable pundits thought it… Read More
Fallen idol
ANDREW SELTH | There was a time, not so long ago, when Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was hailed by the international… Read More
