China's Pacific push has helped us: it has forced us to lift our game
Originally published in The Australian.
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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.
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.
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
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
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
Chinese students being taught 'us and them' brand of diplomacy
Originally published on ABC Online.
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
The collapse of the “Chinese collapse” theory
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 9 April 2018
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
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
Are China and Australia at a Breaking Point?
Originally published in The Diplomat
Donald Trump, trade, and Malcolm Turnbull in the middle
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
By Roland Rajah
Back to the Syrian (un)civil war
Originally published in The Australian.
Admiral Harris, you can see China at a different angle from down here
Originally published in The Australian
By Euan Graham
Democracy harmed by catch-all foreign influence laws
Originally published in Australian Financial Review.
'Message to Trump – no TPP renegotiation'
Originally published in the Nikkei Asian Review (Photo: Washington Post/Getty Images
Canberra looks for new bridges over troubled waters
Faced with a distracted US and an increasingly assertive China, Australia needs, more than ever, friends and partners in the region. Originally published in the Straits Times
By Euan Graham
Iranian protests pose little threat to Rowhani or Khamenei
Originally published in The Australian (Photo: Getty Images
How to handle the finger-wagging from Beijing
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review (Photo:
Bob Menzies clearly believed Japan could crush us
Originally published in The Australian
By John Edwards
US President Donald Trump rolls the dice on Jerusalem
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
Which are the countries still talking to North Korea?
North Korea is often portrayed as entirely isolated from the rest of the world, but as the Lowy Institute's new 2017 Global Diplomacy Index has found, the so-called Hermit Kingdom has diplomatic links with almost 50 countries. Which are they, and just how close are their ties? Originally published
Nations align in the fight for Syrian peace
Originally published in The Australian
Foreign Policy White Paper: Does reality match our ambitions?
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
'Australia needs to engage China and hedge the risks of this relationship'
Originally published in The Australian (Photo: Max Braun/Flickr
By Alan Dupont
John Curtin: normal nice human being in world at war
Originally published in The Australian
By John Edwards
Trump exhumes the Quad
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
By James Curran
Russian denials and the Donald Trump paradox
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
By Bobo Lo
Malcolm Turnbull is facing big choices, but picking between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping isn't one of them
Originally published on the ABC website
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