Asia
Hague: Asian century or global century?
You may have heard by now that UK Foreign Secretary William Hague is cutting short his Australia visit because of the hostage crisis in Algeria (Prime Minister Cameron, too, is…
The Pakistan march: What next?
Alicia Mollaun, a PhD candidate at the Crawford School at ANU, is based in Islamabad.
The winds of change are stirring in Islamabad. On Monday 14 January, tens of thousands of…
China and India in the Fiji equation
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
The Fiji regime's clear breach of its own decrees and roadmap to democracy, as described in my previous…
Commentary
Can social media calm the waters between Japan and China?
In an opinion piece in American Review magazine, Rory Medcalf analyses the effect social media has had on relations between Japan and China in the East China Sea.Rory Medcalf
Indonesia's WTO candidate
Peter McCawley is a Visiting Fellow at the Indonesia Project, ANU, and former Dean of the Asia Development Bank Institute, Tokyo.
During the first decade of this century we heard…
Why the Fiji regime rejected the draft constitution
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
As Jenny Hayward-Jones described last Friday, the Fiji regime's promise of a transparent and accountable …
Policy experimentation in Afghanistan
From Fred Kaplan's latest column:
...at the end of 2009, Obama sent an additional 33,000 troops to Afghanistan, a surge of nearly 50 percent above the 68,000 already there—and…
China linkage: Bullet trains, Guangzhou protests, SOEs, 2012 review, central Asia and more
Dirk van der Kley is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's East Asia Program.
For almost a decade, China's SOEs have blocked plans to make wealth distribution more equal…
India linkage: Delhi protests, BRICS, economy, solar and hydro, US-India relations 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.
The gang-rape protests…
Reader riposte: Burmese and Chinese days
Trish Hamilton writes:
Reading Michael Fullilove's post about Burmese Days reminded me of another book which, though it was published in 1971, to my shame, I first read in 2012…