Asia
Defence White Paper pulls its punches on China
Andrew O'Neil is Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University.
The most striking feature of the 2013 Defence White Paper is the growing…
Bending to China's wishes: Tibet and Glencore
Dr Daniel Woker is the former Swiss Ambassador to Australia and now a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Gallen.
Due to China's size and importance, relations with Beijing…
Syria: Claims, damned claims and reality
I wrote previously about the philosophical reluctance of President Obama to use US power unless key US interests were at stake. Martin Indyk's excellent talk at the Lowy Institute…
Commentary
Sweet and sour in defence take on China
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Rory Medcalf, Director of the International Security Program, writes that the 2013 Australian Defence White Paper takes a…
Indyk, Fullilove, Obama and Corleone
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'80 percent of life is showing up', said Woody Allen. But did he have any advice about leaving?
As my post from last Thursday made clear, I was more than…
White Paper: Defence gets serious
There's lots to like in the 2013 Defence White Paper. And there's lots of detail missing too. Let's examine the White Paper on its own terms.
The first thing this White Paper…
Defence White Paper 2013: Treading water in the Indo-Pacific
The Australian Government was right not to set up grand expectations for its 2013 Defence White Paper released today. This is a less ambitious and in some ways more sophisticated…
India links: Ladakh, Power 500, ad industry, US relations, economic slowdown and more
Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program whose work focuses on India and China-India relations.
China and India are in…
Reader riposte: The forgotten white paper
The Defence White Paper is due to be released within the hour. Luke Maynard, a graduate of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, writes:
Hugh White was right – this white…
Martin Indyk on US Middle East policy: Obama's Michael Corleone moment
A superb speech this morning at the Lowy Institute from Ambassador Martin Indyk, Director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and a former US Ambassador…