Asia and Pacific
China and India in the Fiji equation
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
The Fiji regime's clear breach of its own decrees and roadmap to democracy, as described in my previous…
Commentary
Can social media calm the waters between Japan and China?
In an opinion piece in American Review magazine, Rory Medcalf analyses the effect social media has had on relations between Japan and China in the East China Sea.Rory Medcalf
Indonesia's WTO candidate
Peter McCawley is a Visiting Fellow at the Indonesia Project, ANU, and former Dean of the Asia Development Bank Institute, Tokyo.
During the first decade of this century we heard…
Why the Fiji regime rejected the draft constitution
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
As Jenny Hayward-Jones described last Friday, the Fiji regime's promise of a transparent and accountable …
China linkage: Bullet trains, Guangzhou protests, SOEs, 2012 review, central Asia and more
Dirk van der Kley is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's East Asia Program.
For almost a decade, China's SOEs have blocked plans to make wealth distribution more equal…
Reader riposte: Burmese and Chinese days
Trish Hamilton writes:
Reading Michael Fullilove's post about Burmese Days reminded me of another book which, though it was published in 1971, to my shame, I first read in 2012…
Chuck Hagel and US defence spending
James Brown's post about the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Obama's new Defense Secretary focuses on his views about the Asia 'pivot', but perhaps those views won't matter very…
Chuck Hagel and the Asia pivot
This morning's announcement of Chuck Hagel as President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense elicited predictable outrage over Hagel's judgment on Israel. Congressional…
Lowy Institute's books of 2012 part V
Part 1 of this series by Lowy Institute research staff here; part 2 here; part 3 here; part 4 here.
Burmese Days by George Orwell. Selected by Michael Fullilove.
My book of…
Analyses
Northeast Asia turns its attention to the Arctic
In an analysis brief for the National Bureau of Asian Research, Lowy Institute East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson writes that China, Japan, and South Korea are all…