Asia
Is China a realist power?
Eurasia's arc of instability is ablaze. Robert Kagan rails against America's impotence. A cartoon depicts Uncle Sam as a hapless fireman, impotent in eastern Europe and the Middle…
Xi Jinping in India: Economic focus suits both sides
Prepare yourself for a glut of feeble anthropomorphic metaphors (elephants, pandas, tigers, and dragons are all anticipated) and bloviating communiqués: India-China diplomacy is…
Commentary
Collaborating across the Indian Ocean
Collaborating across the Indian OceanDanielle RajendramPragati14 September 2014Please click here for the online text. Danielle Rajendram
Commentary
China Australia relationship needs to broaden from trade
China-Australia relationship needs to broaden from tradeJames BrownThe Saturday Paper30 August 2014Please click here for the online text.James Brown
India-Japan embrace is all about China, but not for the reasons strategists say
India and Japan lie at the extremes of oriental Asia, and to a casual visitor the two countries feel about as different as could be. Yet they share powerful bonds on many levels…
Southeast Asia links: South China Sea, gender and ageing, global competitiveness and more
What will Prayuth do as Thai Prime Minister? Joshua Kulantzick explains.
Zhai Kun of CICIR asks: who makes the rules on the Chessboard of the South China Sea?
Malaysia Airlines…
Modi and Abe inaugurate new India-Japan partnership
By Manjeet Pardesi and Robert Ayson, both from the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington.
A few days…
Commentary
Looking beyond old alliances to forge a safer Indo-Pacific region
Looking beyond old alliances to forge a safer Indo-Pacific regionRory Medcalf and Dr C. Raja MohanThe Australian3 September 2014Please click here for the online text.Rory Medcalf …
Japan's continuing confidence in the alliance
The views expressed here are the author's own, and do not necessarily represent those of National Institute for Defense Studies or the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
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Speeches
2014 Australia-India Roundtable Report: Outcomes Statement and Summary Record of Proceedings
The relationship between Australia and India has reached a new maturity, based on deepening connections between their societies, economies, education sectors and policy…