23 Jul 2018
The US shadow over India’s Iran policy
<p>Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran has created a test for New Delhi’s relations with Tehran.</p>
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23 Jul 2018
Taiwan and Australia’s refugee treatment deal
The Taiwanese have expressed mixed attitudes towards arrangements for the medical treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru. -
23 Jul 2018
A travel notebook to Marawi City
A heady mix of suffering and desperation has left the Philippines’ city even more vulnerable following the brutal siege. -
23 Jul 2018
Russia’s disinformation game in Southeast Asia
Russian arms sales get all the attention, but Moscow’s campaign to undermine trust is a real threat in the region. -
21 Jul 2018
Weekend catch-up: Trump Putin on a show, more
Statelessness, Global Britain, and Indian demographics: the week that was on The Interpreter. -
20 Jul 2018
Xi Jinping, Senegal, and China’s West Africa drive
Beijing is seeking to consolidate influence in a historically French-dominated region. -
20 Jul 2018
A blueprint for India–Australia economic relations
The strategic convergence between the countries is not matched by strong economic and commercial relations. -
20 Jul 2018
The many voices of Hong Kong
Chief Executive Carrie Lam has backed down from a disparaging and hostile stance towards using English. -
20 Jul 2018
Myanmar’s fourth estate
The trial of two Reuters reporters is a sign of a withering local press and the rise of social media rumourmongering. -
19 Jul 2018
Economic diplomacy brief: India ties, Labor on BRI
Infrastructure wars in Asia, a Japan-Europe deal, and the Varghese India report got a surprisingly low-profile launch. -
19 Jul 2018
“Poor old” China meets “poor young” Africa
Population ageing in China opens a new window for African development – and the wider world should pay attention, too. -
19 Jul 2018
North Korea also an intelligence test for Trump
<p>Pyongyang, always keen observers, are seeking to bypass the US bureaucrats and appeal directly to Donald Trump.</p> -
19 Jul 2018
What has gone wrong in Cambodia?
In 1993 the international community allowed Hun Sen to remain the dominant political force, as he still is today. -
18 Jul 2018
India’s demographic timebomb
Without a manufacturing base to provide mass employment, the country faces potholes on its growth journey. -
18 Jul 2018
The Grey List: more trouble for Pakistan’s economy
Lax financial regulation sees Pakistan sanctioned, and also potentially reveal secret details of China’s mega projects. -
18 Jul 2018
Aid links: an escape from the resource curse, more
Aid and the Thai cave rescue, postcards and rice, and a round-up of stories from the aid and development sector. -
18 Jul 2018
Keep calm and carry on: a message to Trump critics
<p>With two-and-a-half years still to go in Trump’s first term, this level of outrage just cannot be maintained.</p> -
18 Jul 2018
Indo-Pacific: are the British coming back?
Budget black holes and Russia’s growing naval truculence will test the ambition of the Royal Navy to act in Asia. -
17 Jul 2018
Trump-Putin: beyond election meddling
<p>The Helsinki Summit was judged as a spectacle, far more than on what the talks were supposed to deliver.</p> -
17 Jul 2018
The President, his partners, and Putin
If America’s allies in Europe were ever in doubt, now they know: the President is a US-only leader. -
17 Jul 2018
Koreas, gas pipelines, and Russia’s ties that bind
Kim Jong-un’s summit with Donald Trump captured attention, but on the Korean Peninsula, many convoluted ploys are afoot. -
17 Jul 2018
Australia and India: different worlds
Australia wants India to support its “rules based order”, but does New Delhi want the same rules? -
16 Jul 2018
Thai cave rescue: no country for Wild Boars
Attention has turned to the “stateless” problem of three of the boys, their coach, and maybe 3 million more in Thailand. -
16 Jul 2018
Indonesian tourism booms, Australia misses out
Despite high visa compliance rates among Indonesians, Australian policies discourage them from holidaying down under. -
16 Jul 2018
Turkey must be thinking of the Bomb
While NATO wobbles and strongmen prosper, a newly authoritarian Turkey might turn towards nuclear options. -
14 Jul 2018
Why India is buying the world’s emptiest airport
Geopolitical rivalry between big powers sometimes yields odd results. -
14 Jul 2018
Weekend catch-up: Trump–Putin rendezvous and more
ASIO and DFAT talk China, Mohammad bin Salman’s reforms and Japanese floods: the week that was on The Interpreter. -
13 Jul 2018
Japan floods a warning for a changed climate
Failure to radically cut global carbon emissions will mean disasters such as that in Japan will become the new normal. -
13 Jul 2018
Polio in PNG: a menace resurfaces
A mass immunisation campaign is needed, and a dedicated effort to lift dismal health standards in the country. -
13 Jul 2018
Short-term capital flows to emerging economies
Surges and retreats of foreign capital flows pose a question: how could they be made less volatile and more beneficial? -
13 Jul 2018
Why Japan is supporting Cambodia’s election
Despite Western concern the ballot will be neither free or fair, Tokyo is seeking to counter China’s influence. -
12 Jul 2018
Aid and the new face of entrepreneurship
Backing local entrepreneurs helps redefine the assumption that informal-sector employment is fundamentally precarious. -
12 Jul 2018
Reform in Saudi Arabia: will MbS squib it?
Saudi Arabia’s young tyro is trying to keep up with citizens who are demanding a lot more of their rulers and system. -
12 Jul 2018
Tit-for-tat-for-tit-for-tat
In his trade war, Donald Trump’s maximum pressure tactics look likely to prove highly counterproductive. -
12 Jul 2018
High anxiety: Donald Trump’s summits
The summit with Putin reflects an ongoing US strategic failure to learn to think how Moscow thinks. -
11 Jul 2018
Cambodia: dispelling the Malaysia illusion
No stunning surprises will be allowed in Hun Sen’s drive to remain as prime minister. -
11 Jul 2018
China’s expanding navy
The PLA-N is growing rapidly, raising problems for personnel and the integration of new capabilities into the service. -
11 Jul 2018
Burdens and threats at NATO summit
Donald Trump’s theatrics about military spending will distract the alliance from a focus on pressing threats. -
11 Jul 2018
Pacific links: Melanesian arts festival, more
<p>China offers pre-APEC meeting with Pacific leaders, the ABC in the Pacific, Solomon Islands resilience, and more</p> -
11 Jul 2018
Assessing Duterte’s China investment drive
Separating the PRC and Hong Kong when calculating Chinese investment in the Philippines has major consequences. -
10 Jul 2018
New Zealand’s P-8 purchase: straddling the gap
New Zealand could change to a strategic “front line” if geopolitical competition in the South Pacific hots up. -
10 Jul 2018
Boris Johnson exits. Pass the salt.
<p>Johnson still displays a twinge of anxiety in his effusive praise of British strength.</p> -
10 Jul 2018
Syria: extinguishing the flame of the revolution
Bashar al-Assad faces more challenges, but momentum in military campaigns is a difficult thing to stop. -
10 Jul 2018
New Caledonia: decolonisation in conversation
Locals in New Caledonia share their views about the territory’s prospects ahead of the November ballot on independence. -
9 Jul 2018
The domestic politics of New Zealand’s defence
It’s not China that animates New Zealand’s latest defence policy statement. -
9 Jul 2018
US Navy sails into Taiwan sunset
Whereas in 1996 America’s affirmations of support for Taiwan were genuine, they are now a bluff. -
9 Jul 2018
China business and China threats
Doing business with China means being able to say no when the conditions for Australia become too onerous. -
9 Jul 2018
Indonesia’s elections and the local result
Analysts should be wary of using regional elections as a guide for the 2019 presidential race. -
7 Jul 2018
Weekend catch-up: Hambantota port and more
Cambodian military politics, Nauru’s ABC ban, and “Patrons of Mateship”: the week that was on The Interpreter. -
6 Jul 2018
“Patrons” of the alliance and the missing mates
<p>Australia’s public diplomacy is not advanced by excluding women and failing to recognise diversity.</p>