Rethinking US grand strategy
Thursday
6th June
2019
PETER LAYTON | Great power competition is today’s defining strategic issue. Crucially this competition is…
Category Archive: Region | China and Northeast Asia
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…
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…
Taking stock of Xi’s new narrative for Asia
Wednesday
22nd May
2019
CAITLIN BYRNE | Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping delivered a landmark speech, centred on the significance of Asian…
Time to focus on foreign policy for the sake of Australia’s future
Thursday
16th May
2019
Australians face a set of decisions in foreign policy arguably more important to us than any national decisions since the…
Hun Sen’s natural bilateral “bestie”
Wednesday
15th May
2019
On the sidelines of the second Belt and Road Forum in China last month, Cambodia’s Hun Sen was busy. He…
One road, many questions
Tuesday
7th May
2019
Even after last week’s intricately choreographed second global forum of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – to which Australia’s…
Regional wrap
Thursday
25th April
2019
The last fortnight was marred by yet another man-made tragedy in this part of the world, a terrorist attack…
Sustaining business succession plans in chaebols: The cases of Samsung and Hyundai
Wednesday
24th April
2019
Plans to succeed businesses to the third generation have proven difficult for some founding families in South Korea. Such is…
New Japanese Air Force emerges
Thursday
18th April
2019
PETER LAYTON | The Japanese Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) lives in a tough neighbourhood. In the south, China is…