Asia and Pacific
Friday funny: Medical porpoises
I've noted before in this space my admiration for Shaun Micallef, so when he got his own Colbert-like vehicle on the ABC last year, I was excited. Series 1 of Mad As Hell turned…
DPRK: Getting closer all the time...
Earlier this week Jeffrey Choi wrote on this blog that:
North Korea's missile and nuclear technologies appear more advanced and sophisticated than previously thought and it is…
How will China treat Iceland's gay first couple?
Joel Wing-Lun is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's East Asia Program.
As I noted on this blog last month, China's first lady Peng Liyuan caused an online sensation…
A shift in China's North Korea policy?
Jeffrey Choi is a PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations at ANU and an Endeavour Award Scholar. He previously served as an officer in the South Korean…
Australia-China strategic partnership: Two years of fits and starts
The strategic partnership between Australia and China announced yesterday has been a long 24 months in the making. As with any initiative requiring the approval of senior Chinese…
Breakthrough: Australia and China set to announce strategic partnership
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard achieved a diplomatic breakthrough in Beijing today when she and China's Premier Li Keqiang agreed that Australia and China will forge a…
Further DPRK tests a show of weakness
If North Korea soon tests another missile or even, as some reports suggest, a fourth nuclear device, it will be a sign of regime weakness and clumsiness, not strength and cunning…
DPRK: How effective are US missile defences?
Dr Stephan Fruehling is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Program, ANU.
Once again, North Korea's missile program has led the US to make major investments…
Reader ripostes: What's wrong with New Zealand?
Below, a response from Duncan Graham to Stephen Grenville's column of last Wednesday. But first, Dr Rick Boven writes:
The big issue is that NZ's principal 'exports',…
DPRK: China pressure is the key
Responding to Sam Roggeveen's post and the question he poses to me: I think the best way to increase the costs to North Korea of its present course of action (and not only over…