22 Jun 2020
Debt threatens Digicel’s Pacific dominance
The sprawling telecoms provider is deep in the red, and it might be the company’s PNG profits that help bail it out.
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19 Jun 2020
Canberra vs Beijing: A response to Sam Roggeveen
Contrarian views are needed to assess the China risk. And we shouldn’t assume this century will be indisputably China’s. -
19 Jun 2020
Lessons from the India-China border clashes
China has effectively signalled a new phase in its territorial strategy, which should give Indo-Pacific watchers pause. -
19 Jun 2020
Morrison’s messages to the “sophisticated state-based cyber actor”
The Prime Minister appears to be sending a warning – that Australia is on to you. -
19 Jun 2020
COVIDcast: Foreign Minister Joseph Wu on Taiwan’s place in the world
The latest episode in a podcast to discuss the implications of coronavirus for Australia, the region and the world. -
19 Jun 2020
Belt and Road means big data and facial recognition, too
China is exporting the same social control technology it employs to monitor its own population. -
18 Jun 2020
Hard knocks at University of the South Pacific
Claims and counter-claims of corruption have cast a pall over the management of a key regional institution. -
18 Jun 2020
India-China: Pressure at altitude
A shocking fight in Galwan Valley leaves India with dangerous choices, while China thinks it has an upper hand. -
18 Jun 2020
Economic diplomacy: Positive globalism and American exceptionalism
Australia strikes an upbeat attitude to global engagement, while a strong US dollar masks a retreating US. -
18 Jun 2020
Need To Know: Ed Davis on US policing and Black Lives Matter
Many community-minded police leaders complain they are deputised to enforce society’s failures and unfair structures. -
18 Jun 2020
Closing the book on Asia
The National Library of Australia is curtailing its Southeast Asia collection. The move is not in the national interest. -
18 Jun 2020
Will Timor-Leste be the region’s latest press freedom casualty?
An new law under the guise of “dignity” would only diminish democracy and transparency in the country. -
17 Jun 2020
ASEAN Summit: A chance to engage on the Rohingya crisis
The regional body has been notably silent on genocide in Myanmar, ducking behind the myth of non-interference. -
17 Jun 2020
Canberra vs Beijing: A reply to Alan Dupont
We can’t base plans for the future on a chance China may fail. We are yet to internalise how successful it may be. -
17 Jun 2020
Marise Payne stakes a claim for cooperation
The Foreign Minister’s China challenge will grab most attention – but what she said about multilateralism matters more. -
17 Jun 2020
Cambodia: Caught in the middle
As it navigates a post-Covid recovery, Cambodia needs to strike a balance between the US and China. -
16 Jun 2020
Diego Garcia: India’s conundrum
New Delhi declared unequivocal support for “all peoples striving for decolonisation”, only to keep conspicuously quiet. -
16 Jun 2020
It’s not OK: White supremacy and Australia’s security services
A small gesture raises big questions about white supremacist ideology in Australian police and security forces. -
16 Jun 2020
The geopolitical consequences of a pandemic
A global system in flux – from the US to Hong Kong, in politics as much as the economy – ultimately needs leadership. -
15 Jun 2020
Disruption or demands? US post-election foreign policy in Asia
While the re-election of an incumbent may prove strangely turbulent, a new president could bring different burdens. -
15 Jun 2020
Kashmir Covid response sparks fear and suspicion
For many Kashmiris, lockdown and quarantine measures have increased unwanted confrontation with Indian security forces. -
15 Jun 2020
Arms control or out of control?
Revoking hard-won arms control achievements seems nothing less than madness. -
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12 Jun 2020
Seizing the chance to chart “The India Way”
Covid-19 has allowed New Delhi to show a collaborative and constructive brand of diplomacy, instead of zero-sum rivalry. -
12 Jun 2020
COVIDcast: Xi Jinping and Covid-19
The latest episode in a podcast to discuss the implications of coronavirus for Australia, the region, and the world. -
12 Jun 2020
Thailand: Another dissenter disappears
A fresh abduction case raises serious questions, not for the first time, about the reach of Thai authorities. -
11 Jun 2020
North Korea may have benefited from the pandemic after all
With Washington distracted by Covid-19, the crisis allowed Beijing to cooperate with Pyongyang without usual censure. -
11 Jun 2020
With Syrian prosecutions, a rare case of universal jurisdiction
A seldom-used legal concept demonstrates the reach of justice even in the most hopeless circumstances. -
11 Jun 2020
Hong Kong: What China stands to lose
Xi Jinping’s attempted show of strength in Hong Kong only serves to betray his weakness in Beijing. -
11 Jun 2020
China toys with a new propaganda technique: Irony
The already reductive US-China spat has now been turned into an actual cartoon, in an earnest bid for foreign sympathy. -
10 Jun 2020
In Yemen, a deadly concoction of arms sales, conflict and Covid-19
Without a ceasefire, a humanitarian catastrophe fuelled by Western arms shipments is about to get much worse. -
10 Jun 2020
Climate change makes Covid-19 politics look easy
The coronavirus pandemic has led to all kinds of novel political calculations. Climate change needs even better ones. -
10 Jun 2020
Need To Know: Ben Hubbard on the Mohamed bin Salman power grab
The Saudi Crown prince has enacted sweeping positive reforms, yet did so by embracing authoritarianism. -
10 Jun 2020
The key to peace in Afghanistan? Eliminate Taliban sanctuaries
Unless Pakistan’s support to the Afghan insurgency is shut down, there is no chance of a lasting Afghan peace. -
9 Jun 2020
The case for Australian strategic ambiguity
Loyalty has its place. But being a more uncertain ally can make you a better friend. -
9 Jun 2020
The gravity of China’s space base in Argentina
What the South American country stands to gain from the deal is something of a mystery. -
8 Jun 2020
Public holiday: Queen’s Birthday long weekend
We’re taking a day off. Normal publishing will resume on Tuesday. -
6 Jun 2020
In the US, a week of protests and a tidal wave of history
The killing of George Floyd snapped America awake to racism – again. The problem runs deeper than a rogue president. -
5 Jun 2020
New Zealand and China: Contending with words and actions
Wellington has a strong history in relations with Beijing, a record that will help in adapting to new complications. -
5 Jun 2020
COVIDcast: World economy in flux
The latest episode in a podcast to discuss the implications of coronavirus for Australia, the region, and the world. -
5 Jun 2020
Central Asian nations want to kick-start the BRI – and China is happy
Covid-19 has spurred rumours and local tensions, but economic fortunes of the region are increasingly bound to Beijing. -
4 Jun 2020
US: Powerful unions protect police – from reform
Changes to police culture have been obstructed by police unions who are often more powerful than police chiefs. -
4 Jun 2020
Economic diplomacy: Asian investment, super tension & the WTO hot seat
World trade could be set to fall as much as 30% this year. Who is going to be in charge of fixing the problem? -
4 Jun 2020
China and Japan’s island dispute
The issue is not whether Beijing would want to challenge Tokyo over the islands. The question is when, and how? -
4 Jun 2020
Aiding the Pacific during Covid – a stock-take and further steps
Money is flowing, but the proportion of support is well below amounts advanced economies are deploying for themselves. -
3 Jun 2020
In India and Africa, women farmers lack land rights
Despite significant participation in agriculture, women across both regions face similar obstacles to ownership. -
3 Jun 2020
US break with WHO: Where does it leave the rest of the world?
Honest assessment of the Covid-19 response will require cooperation from all member states. There is no alternative. -
3 Jun 2020
Mapping the cost of the pandemic to women in the Indo-Pacific
A new survey is a wake-up call for governments and organisations to direct urgent funding to women’s peace and security. -
2 Jun 2020
India-Australia strategic partnership: Leveraging aerospace capacity
The two countries have an opportunity to pursue air-power cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, where stability is essential. -
2 Jun 2020
Who really killed the Quad 1.0?
Australia has borne the blame for sinking the first Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. The history is not so simple.