17 Apr 2018
Biding time: the G20 Eminent Persons Group on financial governance
The EPG says economic reforms proposed by the G20 are neither radical nor novel.
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17 Apr 2018
A new high: India–Japan defence links
A new deal for amphibious aircraft shows just how far ties between the two countries have come. -
16 Apr 2018
Is Trump ready to bear the cost of a trade war?
The test of US policy is not how much it can hurt others but how much pain it will withstand. -
16 Apr 2018
Aid links: Timor youth, India’s biometric ID test, and more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector. -
16 Apr 2018
Why poor countries won’t lose out from the US–China trade war
If anyone deserves protection at this increasingly protectionist time it is the least developed countries around the world. -
16 Apr 2018
Commonwealth Games: medals, babies, and nation-building
Pacific island countries, especially, win big in a breakthrough event. -
15 Apr 2018
Syria strikes: mission accomplished?
<p>The US felt compelled to act, Bashar al-Assad has been punished, yet may not be deterred.</p> -
14 Apr 2018
Weekend catch-up: Chinese influence in Vanuatu, Syrian crisis, and trade woes
The week that was on The Interpreter. -
13 Apr 2018
Boao Forum, through the eyes of China’s state media
“Confidence” was the message, reinforced in print and online. -
13 Apr 2018
In Syria, Trump must collude with Russia
Airstrikes aside, the US needs Moscow to influence the Assad regime and negotiate an end to this sordid conflict. -
13 Apr 2018
Europe and its populists
The triumph of Viktor Orbán in Hungary is not just a curious and isolated development. -
13 Apr 2018
Japan, South Korea and the West’s tension with Russia
Why did Japan and South Korea not join the expulsion of Russian diplomats after the Skripal attack? -
13 Apr 2018
New trans-Tasman vision needed
In a world of significant change, Australia and New Zealand will need each other more than ever. -
12 Apr 2018
Economic diplomacy brief: Indonesia and Vanuatu, dole woes, and IP theft
Greg Earl with economic snippets from across the region. -
12 Apr 2018
“Presumably, we shall have to call her a Stateswoman”
More positive profiling of women in office will result in more positive perceptions of women in political leadership. -
12 Apr 2018
Global monetary policy returning to “normality”
Fears about the effects of quantitative easing are refuted by experience. -
12 Apr 2018
Migration and border policy links: US border troops, American journeys, and more
<p>Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field.</p> -
12 Apr 2018
Vietnam’s crackdown on dissent could undermine its stability and growth
Detaining enemies of the state could erode international support for Vietnam. -
11 Apr 2018
Julie Bishop and the liberal ideal
The Foreign Minister seemed most animated when discussing ideas that are clearly under threat in the region and indeed globally. -
11 Apr 2018
Entrepreneurial traffic in the Jakarta jam
Ride-hailing apps are all the rage in Indonesia’s capital, but an old favourite is chugging on. -
11 Apr 2018
Pacific Islands links: Vanuatu base talk, PNG unplugged, medals, and more
Links and stories from around the Pacific by The Interpreter team. -
11 Apr 2018
Rouhani, Erdogan, and Putin’s bizarre love triangle
Jostling over Syria offers a glimpse of emerging alliances and compromises as the US-led security order winds down. -
11 Apr 2018
The Boao confidence
Xi Jinping didn’t mention Beijing’s current stand-off with Washington, but the contrast he was drawing was clear. -
11 Apr 2018
Australia vs China, Europe vs Russia
Surprising parallels in international relations appear to lead to similar replies. -
10 Apr 2018
The lack of appeal in Nauru
Australia should question why final court appeals have been scrapped in the tiny Pacific nation before an alternative was set up. -
10 Apr 2018
Getting our maritime security effort right
The time has clearly come for a careful examination of what Australia needs in a civil maritime security organisation. -
10 Apr 2018
The many questions about China’s Vanuatu ambition
Talk of a Chinese military base in Vanuatu should provoke tough questions in Australia, but not undue alarm. -
10 Apr 2018
Xi’s big bureaucratic shake-up
Sweeping reforms may be difficult to swallow for central and local agencies, but the reorganisation of the Chinese bureaucracy has a good chance of success. -
9 Apr 2018
Borneo oil spill costs Indonesia’s poor
<p>Marine pollution and its impact on ocean life represents a major threat to coastal communities.</p> -
9 Apr 2018
Aid and development links: superheroes and the resource curse, poverty in Nigeria, and more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector. -
9 Apr 2018
The peril of North Korea’s charm offensive
<p>The US and South Korea must be wary about Pyongyang dangling the strings.</p> -
9 Apr 2018
American trade policy returns to “aggressive unilateralism”
The US deployed similar trade tactics in the 1980s to pursue its grievances with a rising Japan. -
9 Apr 2018
Amal Clooney no match for Trump and China in Southeast Asia press clampdown
Authoritarian governments are quick to claim “fake news” in a neighbourhood crackdown on press freedom. -
7 Apr 2018
Weekend catch-up: Sergei Skripal, Korean summit, and women’s rugby in Tonga
The week that was on The Interpreter. -
6 Apr 2018
Bangladesh: breaking with dynasty
Forthcoming elections in Bangladesh will expose the semblance of democracy in the country. -
6 Apr 2018
Chinese belts and roads stir mixed reactions in Europe
Europeans are growing more wary of China, but still welcome many of its contributions. -
6 Apr 2018
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan: a welcome but fragile thaw
The signs of warming relations between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are built on the friendship between two authoritarian rulers. -
6 Apr 2018
Watching on: Australia and the Korean Peninsula talks
Australia has put its trust in Donald Trump and his transactional, “deal-making” style of diplomacy. -
5 Apr 2018
Migration and border policy links: Israel’s UNHCR backflip, Pacific seasonal workers, more
Links and updates from across the migration and border policy field. -
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5 Apr 2018
Skripal: the weight of evidence
The alternatives to Russian culpability in the nerve agent attack strain credulity. -
5 Apr 2018
Facebook’s May day
Upcoming EU regulations will have a huge effect on how data-fuelled tech giants do business. -
4 Apr 2018
An agenda for the Moon–Kim summit
Moon Jae-in surely sees himself as Nixon going to China, rather than Chamberlain going to Munich. -
4 Apr 2018
The world according to Mohammed bin Salman
The Saudi Crown Prince is on a PR drive yet still displays all the kingdom’s weakness. -
4 Apr 2018
The rationale for Egypt’s military spending spree
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi looks to balance Cario’s economic weakness with military prowess. -
4 Apr 2018
Indonesia’s fishy furore
A policy of catching and destroying poachers’ boats has made a celebrity of the Fisheries Minister. -
3 Apr 2018
Aid and development links: cut or not, gender and water, trade in Central America, and more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector. -
3 Apr 2018
Small dots, large strategic areas: US interests in the South Pacific
The US would be wise to further invest in ensuring that the Pacific nations retain their independence, freedom, and sovereignty. -
3 Apr 2018
Words that count: New Caledonia’s referendum question
The continued divide in Caledonian society is shown by the very formulation of the question that will help decide the territory’s future. -
2 Apr 2018
China: the party, the state, and the new anti-graft body
Xi Jinping has taken a significant risk with reforms of the anti-corruption system.