Region-China and North East Asia

People love pandas but what’s really behind China’s panda diplomacy?

CAITLIN BYRNE  |  There is no question, the world loves China’s giant pandas. The enigmatic, reserved herbivores evoke goodwill wherever they travel. With… Read More

Advancing foreign investment in APEC

TONY MAKIN | Since the early 1990s, international trade growth has persistently eclipsed foreign investment growth in the Asia-Pacific. Over this time Asia-Pacific… Read More

ANZUS and China

ROWAN CALLICK | China was front of mind as the ANZUS Treaty was framed, was signed and came into force. The Chinese Communist Party… Read More

Responding to China’s unending grey-zone prodding

PETER LAYTON | The best way to counter China’s grey-zone activities may be a measured forward-planning approach that proceeds step-by-step. China… Read More

It’s gold, gold, gold for Japan and its uplifting Games

ROWAN CALLICK | Two months ago The Economist castigated Japan for its obduracy—one dictionary definition, “stubborn persistence in wrongdoing”—for deciding to press ahead with… Read More

Small-state responses to strategic dynamics in the Indian Ocean

CAITLIN BYRNE  |  The Indian Ocean is a vast and dynamic domain. Yet, much like its Pacific counterpart, it is too easily cast… Read More

Missile controls in East Asia

TANYA OGILVIE-WHITE AND TANVI KULKARNI | A global race to acquire sophisticated long-range missiles is underway, despite their destabilizing impact on international security. This… Read More

Learning in the grey zone: how democracies can meet the authoritarian challenge

MATTHEW SUSSEX | Innovation by authoritarian nations in the ‘grey zone’ is becoming one of the most serious challenges facing contemporary democracies. It… Read More

Bringing the grey zone into focus

PETER LAYTON | Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update was, by the standards of such publications, a hard-hitting document. It had a particularly… Read More

China’s attitude to outsiders plummets

The rapid dismemberment of Hong Kong’s lively and internationally facing culture points to a bigger story. That is, that the same suspicious attitude to the… Read More

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