Asia and Pacific
Digital Asia links: Chinese cyber targets, North Korean Internet, Tencent and more
The Asia Pacific is the most dynamic digital landscape in the world, home to the fastest adopters of new technologies and the largest concentration of mobile and social media…
Movie trailer: Apprentice
It was announced earlier this month that Apprentice (note: no definite article, so no Trump) will be Singapore's entry to next year's Academy Awards:
In my occasional visits to…
Mapping Pacific aid: Facebook, India and money laundering
Mapping China’s opaque aid program in the Pacific Islands was more complicated and time-consuming than I had anticipated. I made peace with this fact when I found myself building…
Digital diplomacy links: Syria tracker, Brexit trolls, FOI tweets, Marvel and more
The President's office is at the top of Mexico's digital diplomacy efforts.
America's Defence Intelligence Agency tweeted, deleted then apologised for a tweet critical of…
Witnessing an opaque Pacific power shift
Today the Lowy Institute’s Melanesia program launches a major update to the Institute’s flagship research mapping project on Chinese Aid in the Pacific.* The map now…
Digital Asia links: Bangladesh internet drills, HK elections, Tencent HQ & more
The Asia Pacific is the most dynamic digital landscape in the world, home to the fastest adopters of new technologies and the largest concentration of mobile and social…
Digital Diplomacy links: Antarctic tweets, Army podcast, White House bots, India app and more
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and why the unmediated photo is the message.
The new Hillary Clinton app has taken a page out of Kim Kardashian's mobile app…
North Korea: A realistic path to regime change
One of the great career mistakes a North Korea analyst can make is to predict Pyongyang's downfall, or (even worse) try to attach an actual date to that event. The Democratic…
Digital Asia links: ISIS in Indonesia, South China Sea hacks, WeChat in Africa and more
The Asia Pacific is the most dynamic digital landscape in the world, home to the fastest adopters of new technologies and the largest concentration of mobile and social media…
Digital Diplomacy links: PokemonGO, Indian intel, emoji equality, cyberpower and more
Pakistan's Interior Minister is concerned Indian intelligence may be using social media to spread rumours that could bring down the morale of Pakistani forces.
Five experts…