Asia
Reader riposte: US 'all in' for the rebalance?
Iain Henry responds to Sam Roggeveen's post:
Biden may be insisting that the entire Obama Administration is 'all in' with the rebalance to Asia, but something is revealed by…
India links: School lunch tragedy, FDI, caste prejudice, China and more
BBC Delhi correspondent Soutik Biswas is following the school lunch poisoning tragedy on his blog.
The tragedy also has political consequences, with the ruling Congress Party…
Food security and Australian land
Cynthia Dearin is Managing Director of Dearin & Associates, a consulting firm focused on investment and cultural ties with the Middle East and North Africa.
In the last five years…
Whaling debate redux
With Japan having just made its closing argument in the International Court of Justice case launched by Australia, some highlights from a debate we hosted back in March between…
The coming Afghanistan mess
Anatol Lieven in the New York Review of Books:
In one respect, we are in a much weaker position than the Soviets in 1989. They could leave behind a rather formidable Pashtun…
Interview: 'How Asia Works' part III
Below is the third part of my exchange with Joe Studwell, author of How Asia Works. Here's part 1 and part 2.
SR: In your previous answer you took a swipe at the IMF for its…
Why does China still receive foreign aid?
Dr Philippa Brant is a Lowy Institute Research Associate.
Over the weekend ForeignPolicy.com published an article by Isaac Stone Fish pondering why the US and Japan still provide…
Israeli film festival, Sydney
My thanks to reader Markus for a link to TimeOut's coverage of Sydney's upcoming Israeli film festival (13-27 August). Among the films on show is a documentary called The…
China: What about the workers?
While the worrywart commentators are focused on the slowing of China's growth (even though most forecasts still start with a '7', which doubles income in a single decade), they…
The 'win-win' New Zealand-Taiwan FTA
On the measure of FTAs signed, New Zealand's 'Asian Century' project is doing better than that of its larger, louder neighbour.
Last week, New Zealand became the first OECD…