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Potential drivers of unregulated population migration in the Pacific Islands require attention from regional governments including Australia

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.   

Originally published in Australian Financial Review. 

Originally published in Australian Financial Review. 

Originally published in The Australian on 20 June 2018

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

Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review

Originally published in The Washington Post

Domestic developments in the Pacific Island states matter more than ever to Australia

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 25 May

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

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

Originally published in The Australian on 9 May 2018

Originally published on ABC Online. 

Originally published in Channel NewsAsia

Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 9 April 2018

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

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

Originally published in Australian Financial Review

World communism isn’t Beijing’s goal, but it is encouraging the spread of authoritarianism. Originally published in The Wall Street Journal

Originally published in The Diplomat