Asia

Documentary trailer: The Square
This new documentary about the Eyptian uprising is getting plaudits from reviewers and attracting Oscar buzz. The Daily Beast calls The Square 'the definitive on-the-ground…
Asian crisis and GFC compared: All the wrong lessons
  Do we learn from economic crises? The 2008-10 crises in America and Europe and the Asian crisis a decade earlier present a rich source of contrasting experience to examine. What…
China naval exercise stokes Japan's fears
So China is accusing Japan of ‘dangerous provocation’ over its alleged monitoring of Chinese naval exercises in the Western Pacific.  Amid the prolonged tensions between the two…
NZ-US: Allies in all but name
Jack Georgieff is a research associate with the International Security program at the Lowy Institute. This week US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and New Zealand Minister of…
Reader riposte: Indonesia's reaction to spying claims
Neil Watson responds to Sam Roggeveen's question: why is the Indonesian government making its displeasure over spying allegations so public? Re Indonesia and the spying, I would…
Double trouble on the Mekong
Visiting Cambodia, Laos and Thailand over the past three weeks leaves me in no doubt that issues associated with the Mekong continue to be a subject of sharp controversy, both as…
Spy claims: Indonesia takes it up a notch, but why?
So Australian Ambassador Greg Moriarty is being 'invited' to pay a visit to Indonesia's foreign ministry to offer an explanation for this Sydney Morning Herald report claiming…
Syria: Vote 1 Bashar
Despite everyone telling him that he's got to go, Syria's President Bashar Assad has been steadfast in his refusal to do so, claiming that the only ones who can tell him it's…
Sino-Japanese tensions: The case for strategic patience
Michael Green is Senior Vice President for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, a Professor at Georgetown University and a non-resident fellow…
For Australia in Afghanistan, victory was never an option
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For Australia in Afghanistan, victory was never an option
Dr Rodger Shanahan, Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, reflects on Australia's role in the war in Afghanistan and the impact on the country…