Asia and Pacific
Asylum deal a nightmare for PNG and Australia
Deni ToKunai is a political commentator who writes PNG's leading political blog, The Garamut.
In the public commotion and media frenzy of Kevin Rudd's announcement that a new…
The Anglosphere: A view from Europe
Dr Daniel Woker is the former Swiss Ambassador to Australia and now a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Gallen.
I was amused and intrigued by the recent ruminations on Tony…
Japan's turn to nationalism? Not quite
Rikki Kersten is a Professor of Modern Japanese Political History at the ANU.
Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party may have scored a thumping win in Japan's half-upper house…
Kevin Rudd, you're not a good friend of PNG
Martyn Namorong is a multi-award winning writer, blogger and television presenter.
In March 2008, Kevin Rudd made his first official visit to Papua New Guinea to build ties, the…
Rudd's PNG solution will work, but it isn't right
Dr Khalid Koser is a Lowy Institute Non-Resident Fellow and Deputy Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
Prime Minister Rudd's new asylum policy is likely to work.
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Michael Hayden reveals true scale of US-China intelligence competition
Anyone remotely interested in security and intelligence issues would have to be living under a rock to have missed this recent interview with the former head of the CIA and the…
China links: PLA reform, finance reform, corruption, infrastructure and more
World Bank blogger: 'Short of a cataclysm in China, China is already the largest economy in the world--or will be so in 18 to 24 months. The century and a half of America as…
Japan: Back to the future
The exit polls from yesterday's Upper House elections confirm that Japan has returned to one-party democratic rule.
The all-powerful Liberal Democratic Party again faces a rabble…
Boats, aid and the art of the possible
Retired Brigadier Gary Hogan has been Australia’s Defence Attaché in both Papua New Guinea and the Republic of Indonesia.
In March 1964, the 'Year of Living Dangerously',…
Reader riposte: US 'all in' for the rebalance?
Iain Henry responds to Sam Roggeveen's post:
Biden may be insisting that the entire Obama Administration is 'all in' with the rebalance to Asia, but something is revealed by…