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China's premature power play goes very wrong
China's premature power play goes very wrongRory MedcalfThe National Interest. Please click here for full online text.Rory Medcalf
Would Americans give their lives for Asia? No
Picture it: it's 1 March 2015. Tokyo and Beijing are headed towards what was once the unthinkable.
Over the last several months China has instituted daily non-naval maritime…
What Shinzo Abe actually said in Singapore
The Chinese rhetorical fireworks over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last weekend have been so widely reported that we are at…
Are resource constraints driving China's Asia policy?
By Geoff Miller, Australian Ambassador to Japan (1986-89) and Director-General of the Office of National Assessments (1989-95).
Recent reports from the Shangri-La Dialogue…
How to manage economic nationalism in Indonesia
Both Indonesian presidential candidates have taken a strongly nationalistic stance on foreign investment in their pre-election campaigning. When one of them takes office in…
Allure of normalcy: America's first-order foreign policy issues
Last week saw the publishing of Robert Kagan's latest essay for New Republic magazine: 'Allure of Normalcy: what America still owes the world'. It is a magisterial contribution…
Shangri-La Dialogue: General Wang Guanzhong returns fire at Abe and Hagel
Nick Bisley ended his distillation of Day 1 of the Shangri-La Dialogue with this: 'We will have to wait for the second day to see how Beijing responds to the gentle but…
The diplomacy of hard and soft power at Shangri-La
The Shangri-La Dialogue styles itself as the premier forum for defence diplomacy in Asia. Given the scale of the event, the number of countries represented and the media coverage…
Hagel at Shangri-La: China's behaviour 'destabilising and unilateral'
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's keynote speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last night did not quite match the pre-event speculation that he would pitch Japan as a…
Shinzo Abe talks China at the Shangri-La Dialogue
By my count, the word 'China' only passed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's lips twice during his keynote address to the Shangri-La Dialogue here in Singapore, yet it is…