Asia and Pacific
Warming up to Indonesia
Most of us Indonesia groupies have long been nonplussed at how Australians are so luke-warm (and so ill-informed) about Indonesia, as confirmed by the latest Lowy poll.
I agree…
Why don't Australians trust Indonesia?
This year's Lowy Institute poll reveals Australians' lack knowledge of Indonesia and a pronounced mistrust of our northern neighbour. Only 33% of Australians agree that Indonesia…
Interview: Kishore Mahbubani's great convergence, part III
Below, the final part of my interview with Kishore Mahbubani, one of Asia's most prominent world-politics commentators and author of The Great Convergence. Part 1 here and part 2…
NZ-China: Is integration becoming dependence?
Katherine Ellena is a Research Associate with the US Naval Postgraduate School and a former New Zealand diplomat. The views expressed here are hers alone.
Two milestones occurred…
Indonesia's police: The problem of deadly force
Jim Della-Giacoma is the Asia Program Director for International Crisis Group.
My four year-old daughter recently came home from her Jakarta kindergarten with a story about a…
Reader riposte: Why tax Aussies abroad?
Paul Harper from Phnom Penh writes:
Further to Janet Magnin's comments and Nick Alexander's article Taxing Australians Abroad, it is unclear to me what services I am receiving…
Commentary
New Zealand-U.S. defense relations: A possible return to the alliance?
In this article on The Diplomat's Flashpoints blog, Lowy Institute Thawley Scholar Jack Georgieff looks at what it might take for a return to ally status between the United…
Nauruan democracy works in a Nauruan way
Cait Storr is a lawyer, writer and academic at University of Melbourne researching Nauru and other Pacific small island states.
On Saturday 8 June, Nauru held a peaceful, indeed…
China's agenda in Switzerland (and Europe)
Dr Daniel Woker is the former Swiss Ambassador to Australia and now a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Gallen.
For his first trip abroad as Chinese premier last month,…
Is China already a responsible economic stakeholder?
The meeting between Presidents Obama and Xi in Palm Springs over the weekend presented another opportunity to berate China for its international economic imbalances, but the two…