Asia and Pacific
China naval exercise stokes Japan's fears
So China is accusing Japan of ‘dangerous provocation’ over its alleged monitoring of Chinese naval exercises in the Western Pacific.
Amid the prolonged tensions between the two…
NZ-US: Allies in all but name
Jack Georgieff is a research associate with the International Security program at the Lowy Institute.
This week US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and New Zealand Minister of…
Reader riposte: Indonesia's reaction to spying claims
Neil Watson responds to Sam Roggeveen's question: why is the Indonesian government making its displeasure over spying allegations so public?
Re Indonesia and the spying, I would…
Double trouble on the Mekong
Visiting Cambodia, Laos and Thailand over the past three weeks leaves me in no doubt that issues associated with the Mekong continue to be a subject of sharp controversy, both as…
Spy claims: Indonesia takes it up a notch, but why?
So Australian Ambassador Greg Moriarty is being 'invited' to pay a visit to Indonesia's foreign ministry to offer an explanation for this Sydney Morning Herald report claiming…
Sino-Japanese tensions: The case for strategic patience
Michael Green is Senior Vice President for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, a Professor at Georgetown University and a non-resident fellow…
Aung San Suu Kyi's risky strategy
Andrew Selth is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute.
Aung San Suu Kyi is in Europe, where she recently collected the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded…
Reader riposte: India's resource scarcity
Wilson Chau, a former Lowy Institute intern, writes:
Really interesting email exchange with the co-authors of In Line Behind a Billion People. It is a book that I must read.
If…
Indo-Pacific security links: China-Japan, Sierra Madre, drones, Diego Garcia and more
Dougal Robinson is a project research assistant in the Lowy Institute's International Security program.
Andrew Erickson from the US Naval War College and his two co-authors have…
How scarcity will define China's next decade
James Fallows calls it 'the never-ending big question about China': where is this high-speed juggernaut headed?
In Line Behind a Billion People is a new book that attempts an…