1 Mar 2021 Erasing memory in China’s Tibet Graeme Smith The Chinese Communist Party is employing familiar tactics to assert its rule. When co-opting fails, coerce or silence.
26 Feb 2021 A Duterte dynasty? Michael Beltran A campaign by the daughter of the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte hovers somewhere between rumour and reality.
26 Feb 2021 India must be realistic about Russia relations Anita Inder Singh New Delhi can talk up ties all it likes, but Moscow’s eyes are also looking east – to Beijing.
25 Feb 2021 Why Aussie exporters won’t be toasting China or the US Greg Earl Wine exporters suffer a sour drop. Could a clever sales pitch deliver a new special vintage?
25 Feb 2021 Australia’s silence on Chagos dispute doesn’t help Benjamin Herscovitch Ensuring a consistent approach to the “rules” would make it that much harder for China to break them.
24 Feb 2021 The ups and downs of the Vietnam–North Korea relationship Khang Vu Hanoi and Pyongyang have had their share of differences, but they also have a long historical connection.
24 Feb 2021 What are China’s leaders saying about the South China Sea? Oriana Skylar Mastro The rhetoric weaves between cooperative and competitive, leaving the question of what – and who – to believe.
23 Feb 2021 Terrorism and New Zealand’s dual citizenship conundrum Rodger Shanahan This is an age in which dual nationality is widespread, and problems related to alleged ISIS members were foreseeable.
23 Feb 2021 Afghanistan: To leave or not to leave Syed Fazl-e-Haider Under the Doha deal, US forces are meant to be out of the country in mere weeks. Either way, peace appears far off.
23 Feb 2021 Democracy vs autocracy: Biden’s “inflection point” Sam Roggeveen If this really is a new Cold War, it’s off to a slow start.
22 Feb 2021 Are Indonesia’s “rubber” laws limiting freedom of speech? Jim Nolan Jokowi’s call for “improved supervision” of criminal defamation laws won’t lead the media to stop the presses just yet.
22 Feb 2021 Expanding the CPTPP: A form guide to prospective members Jeffrey Wilson , Hayley Channer South Korea? Britain? China? Which country would you bet on to be the next big winner?
19 Feb 2021 Myanmar’s coup will test the loyalty of the security forces Andrew Selth Don’t assume the various armed forces organisations are just a mindless mass prepared to do whatever they are told.
19 Feb 2021 What happened to Australia’s “soft power”? Melissa Conley Tyler A review of soft power was trumpeted as a chance to increase Australia’s persuasive force. So why was it abandoned?
18 Feb 2021 India’s Koo plots a digital coup Aarti Betigeri A Twitter clone is gaining ground, but where does the push to localise social media end up?
18 Feb 2021 Palaces and protests: Where to next for Russia? Ian Hill Popular support for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny won’t bring down the Putin regime, but it has stripped off the façade.
17 Feb 2021 How China is bending the rules in the South China Sea Oriana Skylar Mastro Beijing’s misapplication of international law in the disputed waters is more complex than it seems on the surface.
17 Feb 2021 Allies but not friends? New Zealand and Australia Robert Ayson Trans-Tasman tensions have boiled up over a citizenship case, but this latest spat betrays deeper problems.
17 Feb 2021 Russia vs the EU Daniel Woker A visit to Moscow by Europe’s top envoy did nothing to calm a growing diplomatic spat. What if Washington weighs in?
16 Feb 2021 Antarctica: Working a rules-based system Claire Young The frozen continent is not fully quarantined from an assertive China, yet myths should not be mistaken for reality.
16 Feb 2021 India, Canada and the new vaccine politics Grant Wyeth As a pharmaceutical powerhouse, India finds it now holds the cards over Canada and what it sees as its irksome PM.
16 Feb 2021 What Biden means for Australia’s aid policy Dane Moores The US president has signalled a serious commitment to bolstering international development.
15 Feb 2021 Australia’s place in a decarbonising world economy Roland Rajah The economics of climate change are rapidly shifting, and that has opportunity for Australia.
15 Feb 2021 The power of example: America’s presence in Diego Garcia Blake Herzinger US claims to upholding the rules-based order don’t square with its silence on Mauritian sovereignty in the Chagos.
12 Feb 2021 Addressing a mistake – words matter Daniel Flitton My article on the Pacific Island Forum leadership fallout was ill-considered.
12 Feb 2021 Foreign policy’s “Indigenous moment” is here James Blackwell Australia needs to step up to the challenge.
12 Feb 2021 Scottish independence and the implications for British defence Conor McLaughlin Breaking away from the UK would bring up some thorny issues – like what to do with nukes.
12 Feb 2021 CCP governance comes to the South China Sea Zachary Haver Focusing exclusively on China’s use of coercion across the region obscures the true extent of Beijing’s ambitions.
11 Feb 2021 The importance of Myanmar’s pots and pans protests Phyu Phyu Oo Popular resistance to the military coup has taken a variety of forms, some of them harder to silence than others.
11 Feb 2021 Covid’s long reach upsets the economic pecking order Greg Earl China’s economy could overtake the US faster than expected but there are also implications for Australia closer to home.
11 Feb 2021 Pakistan and Saudi Arabia reconcile amid shifting alliances Syed Fazl-e-Haider For Riyadh, the road to Beijing goes through a friendly Islamabad.
10 Feb 2021 What next for Pacific regionalism? Jonathan Pryke The achievements of the Pacific Islands Forum should not be missed amid the rancour. There is still a chance for repair.
10 Feb 2021 Crushing dissent in a new paranoid India Edmond Roy As public protests grow, so does the government’s authoritarian urge.
10 Feb 2021 Vaccine nationalism: Rich nations must also care for the poor Andrea Chloe Wong Short-sighted hoarding ignores the world’s interconnected economy, and threatens to prolong the Covid crisis.
9 Feb 2021 Does it really matter if the Pacific Islands Forum falls apart? Daniel Flitton Last week’s fiasco over electing a new leader revealed an organisation too fragile to confront big challenges.
9 Feb 2021 India and Australia: Beyond the three Cs Andrew Hunter It is unambiguously in Australia’s interest to strengthen our relationship with India in many aspects.
9 Feb 2021 India should prioritise a denial strategy in the Indian Ocean Arzan Tarapore The stand-off with China in the Himalayas has raised a broader debate about India’s strategic outlook.
9 Feb 2021 PNG: Mistaking massacres for tradition Leanne Jorari Tribal violence has spiralled into outright warfare, beyond the ability of law enforcement to deal with it.
8 Feb 2021 Myanmar: Calling a coup a coup Adam Simpson The military argues that it has operated within the country’s constitution. That’s simply not true.
8 Feb 2021 Pacific development outlook for 2021 Alexandre Dayant The economic toll of the pandemic will take years to recover from, but signs of progress are starting to appear.
8 Feb 2021 Chagos: A boundary dispute tips over a sovereignty ruling Natalie Klein A case between Mauritius and Maldives stands on the ICJ opinion on the former’s claim to the Chagos Archipelago.
8 Feb 2021 What APEC has to offer in 2021 Dick Grant No panacea, certainly, but a newly engaged United States might see APEC as just the right forum to work with the region.
5 Feb 2021 Messages from China’s third white paper on foreign aid Denghua Zhang What's changed, and what hasn’t?
5 Feb 2021 What does America think the rules-based order is for? Sam Roggeveen The US is in a defensive crouch rather than in an expansionary mood. But bring on debate.
5 Feb 2021 Germany’s ordinary new world Marcus Colla Nobody knows the size of the personal vote Angela Merkel will take with her, or the consequences for German politics.
4 Feb 2021 A bruising 24 hours in the Pacific Jonathan Pryke An eruption over the the next PIF Secretary General and a university bust-up reveal a region divided.
4 Feb 2021 History haunts Japan–South Korea ties Henry Storey Geopolitical expediency has previously pushed South Korea and Japan closer together, but a painful past keeps intruding.
4 Feb 2021 The Donbass conflict: Waiting for escalation Nikola Mikovic The forgotten war involving Ukraine and Russia in the energy-rich region is simmering still.
3 Feb 2021 Myanmar’s empty promise of constitutional reform Melissa Crouch Democracy campaigners tried to play by the military’s rules. They suffered for it anyway.
3 Feb 2021 A “beggar-thy-neighbour” approach keeps seafarers stranded Sandra Tsui Some countries have banned crew rotations. Some have tight limits. A few are open. So a crisis continues.