Why isn’t the Japanese Yen more internationalised?
The fast growth of the foreign exchange reserves of the People’s Bank of China and Bank of Japan was a notable feature of the world… Read More
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John Howard delivers Inaugural Asia Lecture
More photos from the Inaugural Asia Lecture are available on our Griffith Asia Institute… Read More
China’s crisis behavior: Political survival and foreign policy
The rise of China is one of the most dynamic political phenomena in world politics in the 21st century. As David Shambaugh, a prominent China… Read More
China and the Panama Papers
The recent massive leak of data from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca shows that greater China constitutes the single largest market for the secretive… Read More
China’s great big, very capable fighter force
PETER LAYTON | China’s rapid economic growth over the last two decades has allowed the country to significantly modernise its defence forces – and none… Read More
From state predation to market extraction: The political economy of China’s rural finance, 1979–2012
Despite some progress in the past three decades, China’s rural economy still suffers from a lack of sound financial intermediation in terms of the coverage,… Read More
Shaping Futures – Asia Future Fellows program for undergraduates
As a 24 year old student applying for what at the time I simply perceived to be a free trip to China, I had no… Read More
Securing the seas, securing the state: Hope, danger and the politics of order in the Asia-Pacific
More than ‘regional integration’, the ‘power shift’ towards China and ‘Asia’ has come to dominate the debates about the Asia-Pacific and global order. As the… Read More
The third age of Australian Defence White Papers continues
PETER LAYTON | There’s always a certain anticlimax when the latest Defence White Paper is released. The once-feverish anticipation eases as firm plans are set… Read More
South China Sea: Beijing is winning, but here’s how to retake the initiative
China is once again causing concern in the South China Sea, this time by moving surface-to-air missiles to the Paracel Islands. Over several years, this… Read More
