19 Mar 2019 6:00
Peace in Afghanistan: the tumultuous road ahead
The next round of peace talks will be anything but straightforward if the previous negotiations are anything to go by.
Long reads
18 Mar 2019 16:00
China’s Social Credit System: the black market and inequalities
Could Beijing’s new governance method erode trust between the public and the Party?
18 Mar 2019 12:30
India: never quite in focus
India deserves sustained closer scrutiny, but with Australian media groups shuttering bureaux, attention is fleeting.
18 Mar 2019 10:00
Five questions about the Christchurch attack
There may not be a direct causal link between the attack and conservative political rhetoric. It is too early to tell.
18 Mar 2019 6:00
Diplomatic switch? Solomon Islands relations with Taiwan or China
Honiara might break with Taipei after the April election, and may not be the last in a tug of war with Beijing.
15 Mar 2019 13:00
Singapore’s careful F-35 fighter aircraft purchase
With these flying advanced sensor arrays, the aim could be to protect Singapore as Switzerland of Southeast Asia.
15 Mar 2019 12:00
With US out of favour and China doubts, Duterte turns to Tokyo
Japan has quietly, and successfully, been building ties with the Philippines in a way that could calm a volatile region.
15 Mar 2019 10:30
Brexit: Britain’s Commonwealth pivot is nothing new
Britain has pinned hopes on former colonies before, with overstated consequences then, leaving lingering doubts now.
15 Mar 2019 6:00
China’s “South Asia challenge” for the Belt and Road Initiative
Chinese strategists have identified three trends that pose severe challenges to the promotion of the BRI in South Asia.
26 Feb 2019 6:00
The gloom about Myanmar’s economy
Many problems can be sheeted home Aung San Suu Kyi – even if there are few critics willing to suggest alternatives.
5 Mar 2019 15:30
Malaysia joins the International Criminal Court
Why now, after resisting membership for more than 20 years, has Malaysia decided to ratify the Rome Statute?
18 Feb 2019 14:00
Pulwama attack: more questions than answers
India’s retaliation against Pakistan is predictable, and not at all effective in tackling sources of Kashmir’s strife.
4 Mar 2019 12:30
Breaking Russia’s space stranglehold
America’s new spacecraft represents a significant strategic shift in space.
22 Feb 2019 16:00
The botched Amazon deal and its importance for 2020 US elections
The Amazon case highlights tensions between the progressive young guns and moderate older guard in American politics.
22 Feb 2019 13:30
The new Middle Eastern space race
Israel’s mission to the moon is indicative of a trend where spaceflight in the Middle East is linked to politics.
21 Feb 2019 10:30
The tremendous impact of a US-China investment and technology war
The impending bifurcation of the world internet economy will disrupt many industries, companies and national economies.
1 Mar 2019 11:00
How Assad’s Tehran trip exposed political rifts in Iran
The visit by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad carried far deeper meaning in the tension between Iran’s hardliners and moderates.
18 Feb 2019 15:30
Indonesia’s election debates: there’s substance in the style
The televised debates bring the campaign to a country that has only been practising democracy for 20 years.
16 Jan 2019 16:00
Timor-Leste’s forgotten Chinese
The Chinese-Timorese community face discrimination and stereotypes in the country they’ve long called home.
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13 Dec 2018 17:00
What went wrong? Taiwan fails to legalise same-sex marriage
Foreign influence helped scupper a bid to be the first Asian nation to formally legalise gay marriage.
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21 Nov 2018 16:00
Timor-Leste: refining agreements in the Greater Sunrise
Timor-Leste’s sees a purchase of US energy group ConocoPhilips’s stake in Greater Sunrise as a “seat at the table”.
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2 Nov 2018 6:00
Yemen, Khashoggi, and the deadly Saudi trade
No one denies Western weapons are used in Yemen but it took a journalist’s death to focus on arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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31 Oct 2018 10:30
Caught in the net: slavery on Southeast Asian seas
The seafood you bought from your local market could have been caught by a slave.
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16 Oct 2018 6:00
The corridor of power
The remote Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan was central to the Silk Road, Great Game, and Cold War – now China has plans.
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11 Oct 2018 14:15
Facing ghosts of the past in Bougainville
Post-war justice has been elusive, but until grievances are confronted, the consequences of impunity can be deadly.
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6 Sep 2018 14:30
China’s tech bubble
As debts mount and liquidity begins to dry up, it will soon become clear how much the growth of tech start-ups was fact.
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17 Aug 2018 14:30
Electric vehicles and industrial policy
A dramatic shift in the global automotive market sees electric vehicles, once viewed as toys, gaining momentum.
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