Region | China and Northeast Asia | Griffith Asia Insights

Australia’s search for a China policy

Tuesday 28th November 2017

IAN HALL | The Sydney Morning Herald journalist Peter Hartcher recently opined that for all Donald J. Trump’s manifest faults, the…

Friday 24th November 2017

In international politics, the concept of “soft power” is already well known. But in the Chinese domestic domain, the contest…

Monday 20th November 2017

PETER LAYTON | The rise of China is the big international relations issue of our time. Unsurprisingly then, various solutions…

Tuesday 7th November 2017

The conclusion of the recent Communist Party congress in China has turned the world’s spotlight on a hitherto elusive figure,…

Wednesday 1st November 2017

It’s been nearly two months since China’s official media agency Xinhua debuted #Xiplomacy on Twitter. Xinhua, with a weighty…

Monday 30th October 2017

HUI FENG | While the 19th party congress confirmed President Xi Jinping’s grip of power at the top echelon of…

Wednesday 25th October 2017

PETER LAYTON | The Foreign Affairs Committee of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly has been busy sending open letters to…

Saturday 21st October 2017

Donald Trump’s undermining of the Iran nuclear deal only shrinks US options for dealing with North Korea. The US president’s…

Wednesday 18th October 2017

IAN HALL | Nick Bisley is right to call for a clearer – and I would add more confident –…

Monday 2nd October 2017

The schedule of top-level international events in the Asia-Pacific is famously busy. To keep a finger on the pulse of…