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Richard McGregor on the backlash against Xi Jinping - podcast out now
Richard McGregor on the backlash against Xi Jinping - podcast out now
Episode 5 of the Lowy Institute’s new podcast, Rules Based Audio, is out today. In Xi Jinping - The Backlash, Lowy Senior Fellow Richard McGregor discusses his new…
Unpacking the Asia Power Index – Podcast out today
Unpacking the Asia Power Index – Podcast out today
This week on the Rules Based Audio podcast: power in Asia. Who’s got it, who’s losing it, and who’s using what they’ve got in the smartest way? The world’s geopolitical centre of…
Book review: Hugh White’s How to Defend Australia
Book review: Hugh White’s How to Defend Australia
Book Review: How to Defend Australia, by Hugh White (La Trobe University Press, 2019) Defence commentator Hugh White never shouts from the rooftops, and his new book How to…
Book review: The Great Successor
Book review: The Great Successor
Book Review: The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong-un, Sun of the 21st Century, by Anna Fifield (Hachette, 2019) Anna Fifield’s The…
Episode 3 of Rules Based Audio, “The Propaganda Department”, out now
Episode 3 of Rules Based Audio, “The Propaganda Department”, out now
Episode 3 of Rules Based Audio, the new Lowy Institute podcast is out today.  'The Propaganda Department' is a story in two parts about media, censorship and politics in…
Public holiday: Queen’s Birthday weekend
Public holiday: Queen’s Birthday weekend
Monday is a public holiday for the Queen’s Birthday long-weekend in (most of) Australia. Normal publishing will resume on Tuesday. The Interpreter
Episode 2 of Rules Based Audio, “The Terrorist’s Wife” out now
Episode 2 of Rules Based Audio, “The Terrorist’s Wife” out now
Episode 2 of the Lowy Institute’s brand new podcast, Rules Based Audio, is out today. In The Terrorist’s Wife – the role of women in jihad, Lowy Research Fellow Lydia Khalil…
Book review: unruly waters shape South Asia’s history​​​​​​​
Book review: unruly waters shape South Asia’s history​​​​​​​
Book Review: Unruly Waters: How Mountains, Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia’s History, by Sunil Amrith (Penguin, 2018) As Sunil Amrith explains in…
Rules Based Audio: The new Lowy Institute podcast
Rules Based Audio: The new Lowy Institute podcast
Today the Lowy Institute is launching a new half-hour podcast, Rules Based Audio. Each fortnight, I’ll be talking to experts and leading thinkers from Australia and around the…
Belt and Road: colonialism with Chinese characteristics
Belt and Road: colonialism with Chinese characteristics
Although China’s top-ranking diplomat Yang Jiechi has repeatedly assured the world that his country’s supreme foreign policy project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), “does not…