Asia
A Chinese canal in Nicaragua?
There is pride in Hong Kong that a local private company is pushing ahead with perhaps the world's largest-ever civil works project, the 280km long, 500m wide Nicaragua Canal…
Book review: The China-Pakistan Axis
In 1965, a Pakistani military delegation traipsed to Beijing in hope of replacing equipment they'd lost in the previous year's war with India.
Premier Zhou Enlai, meeting the…
Australia must push for regional adoption of Arms Trade Treaty
On 24 December 2014, two decades of campaigning and several years of negotiations culminated in the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) entering into force as an internationally legally…
Is China fragile?
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is a parable for unanticipated risk: the possibility of 'unknown unknown' events that no-one sees coming.
In a new essay, The Calm…
South China Sea: Jakobson and Glaser are both right
There has recently been a touch of disagreement on this site between Linda Jakobson of the Lowy Institute and Bonnie Glaser of CSIS about the motivations for China's actions in…
The US has abandoned a constructive strategy towards North Korea
On 2 January the US announced additional bilateral sanctions against North Korea, adding embargoes on three entities and 10 individuals. The stated reason was the alleged North…
What I got wrong in 2014, and what I got right
January should be called pundit accountability month. On websites such as this, we make all sorts of predictions and forecasts, or we identify structural trends or leadership…
Commentary
Setting the field: Australia-India engagement in Southeast Asia
Setting the field: Australia-India engagement in Southeast AsiaDanielle RajendramPragati12 January 2014Please click here for the full online text.Danielle Rajendram
Southeast Asia links: Pope's pivot, bloggers and gay rights in Vietnam, Thai monks and more
To much fanfare, the Pope will visit the Philippines this week – all part of the Pope's pivot to Asia, says Prashanth Parameswaran.
At the beginning of the year Hanoi took the…
Commentary
A 2015 resolution for risk reduction
A 2015 resolution for risk reductionRory MedcalfAsia Maritime Transparency Initiative23 December 2014Rory Medcalf