China's Pacific push has helped us: it has forced us to lift our game
Originally published in The Australian.
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ASEAN–Australia relations: The suitable status quo
Australia’s dialogue partner relationship with ASEAN is more suitable for Australian interests in Southeast Asia than the idea of ASEAN membership
By Malcolm Cook
Submission to the inquiry into the strategic effectiveness and outcomes of Australia’s aid program in the Indo-Pacific
Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Unregulated population migration and other future drivers of instability in the Pacific
Potential drivers of unregulated population migration in the Pacific Islands require attention from regional governments including Australia
By Rita Parker
Has China's leader Xi Jinping now passed his peak?
Originally published in Australian Financial Review.
Why North Korea is in no hurry to do what the US wants
Meeting in Singapore last month, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un captured the world's attention and promised to work towards “new relations”. Why have mixed messages followed? Originally published as a BBC.com news analysis.
The Global Power Balance Shifts Toward Asia
Originally published on Brink News
Managing foreign interference and multiculturalism
Originally published in Australian Financial Review.
“Americanism, not globalism”: President Trump and the American mission
President Trump may be unwittingly preparing the United States for the end of American global hegemony
By James Curran
Huawei has ended a national illusion
Originally published in Australian Financial Review.
Australia must tread carefully in its Pacific contest with China
Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald
Terrorism trumps China, US fears for Australians
Originally published in The Australian on 20 June 2018
Malaysia’s Diplomacy Is Trapped in Mahathir’s Shadow
Originally published in Foreign Policy.
2018 Lowy Institute Poll
After the remarkable developments of the past two years and following a year of heated domestic debate on issues such as foreign influence, energy and immigration, the 2018 Lowy Institute Poll has observed both continuities and discontinuities in Australian public opinion
By Alex Oliver
2018 Lowy Institute Poll Interactive
After the remarkable developments of the past two years and following a year of heated domestic debate on issues such as foreign influence, energy and immigration, the 2018 Lowy Institute Poll has observed both continuities and discontinuities in Australian public opinion
By Alex Oliver
Speech by the Hon. Charles Abel, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer of Papua New Guinea
The Hon. Charles Abel, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer of Papua New Guinea, delivered this address at the Lowy Institute, Sydney, on Monday 18 June 2018
Getting Singapore in shape: Economic challenges and how to meet them
Without bold adjustments, Singapore’s extraordinary economic performance may prove difficult to sustain
China's private concerns about Trump-Kim
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review
Three reasons why the Singapore summit had to happen
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald
So how can China tame Trump? By cribbing from Japan.
Originally published in The Washington Post
North Korea summit the latest act in Asia's great melodrama
Orginially published on ABC News
By Euan Graham
Instability in the Pacific Islands: A status report
Domestic developments in the Pacific Island states matter more than ever to Australia
Australia's Seasonal Workers Program a win for Pacific Islanders, too
Originally published on ABC News
Royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was glorious. But it’s not ours.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 25 May
Cancelled Trump-Kim summit no surprise given glaringly obvious gulf in recent weeks
Originally published in Channel News Asia
By Euan Graham
Trump, Kim and the North Korean nuclear missile melodrama
The Trump–Kim summit is a distinct new phase in the dramatic cycle that defines the North Korea nuclear issue and the peninsula’s highly theatrical brand of geopolitics
By Euan Graham
North Korea is a dangerous distraction
The real struggle in Asia is with China — and Trump is throwing away U.S. advantages.
First published by Foreign Policy on 23 May 2018
US remains the top power in Asia but for how long, as Trump erodes vital alliances?
Michael Fullilove and Hervé Lemahieu say China is rapidly gaining on the US as an Asian regional power, and the Trump administration’s mismanagement of trade and diplomatic ties in the region threatens its most significant advantage.
Originally published in the South China Morning Post on 11
Trump's goal is regime change
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
By Lydia Khalil
Australia must shed self-doubt over its place in the new Asia
Originally published in The Australian on 9 May 2018
Remaking the Middle East
How a troubled region may save itself
Chinese students being taught 'us and them' brand of diplomacy
Originally published on ABC Online.
Labour migration as complementary pathways for refugees in the Asia-Pacific
This working paper examines whether legal labour migration schemes can be opened to humanitarian migrants who may otherwise become targets for migrant smugglers
By Jay Song
Reserve judgment on 'mission accomplished' in Syria
Originally published in Channel NewsAsia
All Western guns blazing not as easy as advocates make out
Originally published in The Australian.
With China or without?
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review
Comparative international approaches to establishing identity in undocumented asylum seekers
This working paper looks at international practices for establishing identity in undocumented asylum seekers and argues there is scope for Australia and its regional partners to develop an internationally accepted standard of identity document
The collapse of the “Chinese collapse” theory
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 9 April 2018
Safeguarding Australia’s security interests through closer Pacific ties
Greater Australian engagement in the Pacific Islands region is needed if Canberra wants to ensure regional stability and underpin Australia’s national security
By Greg Colton
The other North Korea question: How important is the Korean Peninsula to the US?
Historians may come to see North Korea’s nuclear-armed ballistic missiles as the trigger that unravels America’s strategic leadership of Asia.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 29 March 2018
What key players want from Trump–Kim talks (and what they’ll get)
Originally published in the South China Morning Post
By Euan Graham
ASEAN summit is diplomatic coup for Australia
Originally published in Australian Financial Review
Charities and terrorism: Lessons from the Syrian crisis
Terrorists have manipulated the humanitarian crisis in Syria to create a cover for foreign fighters and to raise funds for terrorist groups under the guise of charitable donations
Xi Jinping must defuse China's debt bomb
Originally published in Australian Financial Review
Trump’s trade war pins Australia between a rock and a hard place
Originally published in The Australian
By Roland Rajah
Xi Jinping’s ideological ambitions
World communism isn’t Beijing’s goal, but it is encouraging the spread of authoritarianism. Originally published in The Wall Street Journal
Winston Peters on New Zealand in the Pacific
On 1 March, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, delivered an address at the Lowy Institute
Are China and Australia at a Breaking Point?
Originally published in The Diplomat
2017 Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue Outcomes Report
The Lowy Institute hosted the fifth annual Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue from 12 to 15 December 2017 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
By Anna Kirk
Donald Trump, trade, and Malcolm Turnbull in the middle
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
By Roland Rajah
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