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
Region | China and Northeast Asia
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View our expert commentary and informed analysis on the latest developments in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, North Korea, Mongolia and Hong Kong.
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
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
The unacceptable dangers of accepting a nuclear North Korea
MICHAEL HEAZLE | The crisis on the Korean Peninsula has for the first time introduced an element of confusion over the strategic goal pursued… Read More
North Korea’s dangerously rudimentary nuclear command-and-control systems
Conventional wisdom tells us that because North Korea’s elites are rational actors, they will conclude that the benefits of employing nuclear weapons will be outweighed… Read More
Australia and Korea’s wars
ANDREW SELTH | Griffith Asia Institute Adjunct Associate Professor, Dr Andrew Selth recently had the below article republished in the Lowy Interpreter. In light… Read More
New developments in China’s financial regulation
HUI FENG | Beijing’s two-day closed door meeting on finance and regulation was concluded on 15 July 2017. Dubbed the National Finance Work Conference,… Read More
