Feature series

Justice for the Rohingya: Regional responsibility

SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER AND SARA E DAVIES  | Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya has passed the threshold for action under the Responsibility to… Read More

Graphic novels chart Myanmar’s history

ANDREW SELTH  | Exotic climate, turbulent past an inspiration to comic writers Before 1988, Myanmar (then known as Burma) did not feature prominently in… Read More

Debating China’s influence in Australia

IAN HALL | Stories of attempts by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to influence Australia’s political processes, gather intelligence, or simply intrude into… Read More

Regional wrap

Kim Jong-un’s visit to China and the diplomatic to-and-fro surrounding the upcoming summit meeting between DPRK and the United States were the most talked-about developments… Read More

Biggles in Burma: Giving boys what they want

ANDREW SELTH  | When British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quoted the poem ‘Mandalay’ during a visit to Myanmar in early 2017, to the obvious… Read More

Why New Delhi welcomes a can-do Canberra

Over the last few years, the emerging closeness between India and Australia has often made news, but such enthusiasm has been, at times, short-lived. However,… Read More

Regional wrap

The most-talked about development, this fortnight, is the significant diplomatic coup pulled off by Kim Jong Un in getting Donald Trump to agree to his… Read More

China’s new central bank governor will have to deal with massive debt and an ambitious economic agenda

HUI FENG | The Chinese government has appointed a new head of its central bank. Yi Gang, currently the deputy governor of the People’s Bank… Read More

Pathways from pariah for Myanmar and North Korea

Myanmar and North Korea were Asia’s pariahs. Both countries emerged from colonial rule to face immediate and existential security threats. Myanmar feared that internal insurgents… Read More

Moon quietly in the centre

 South Korean President Moon Jae-in has been steering his foreign policy through narrow gaps and around tricky obstacles during his first nine months, like a… Read More