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
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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
Preparing Australia to respond to disasters—at home and abroad
PETER LAYTON | The COVID pandemic relentlessly rolls on but prescribed burns have now also begun across Australia as the next bushfire… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 4 August
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Forum Foreign Ministers focus on COVID-19 recovery The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Foreign Ministers met during last week in… 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
Climate change and maritime boundaries: Pacific responses and implications for Australia
REBECCA STRATING AND JOANNE WALLIS | Climate change has the potential to undermine the maritime resource entitlements of Pacific island states. Resource-rich maritime areas… 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
Indonesia records its highest increase in COVID cases – and numbers are likely to rise again before they fall
DICKY BUDIMAN | Indonesia is currently experiencing a massive spike in COVID-19 infection and deaths, as experts (including myself) have unfortunately been predicting. The… Read More
Myanmar: No light on the horizon
ANDREW SELTH | Predicting Myanmar’s future has always been a risky business. It opened up to academics, journalists and others after the abortive 1988… Read More
