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25 Jul 2013 15:07
A more expensive Chinese lunch for Australia?
Last week, the IMF made its contribution to the ongoing debate over Chinese economic performance. -
25 Jul 2013 14:07
Wednesday links: China child abduction, Arctic methane, econoblogs and more
The release of methane from melting Arctic permafrost could cost the world $60 trillion, says the journal Nature. The entire global economy was worth $70 trillion in 2012. -
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24 Jul 2013 17:07
Development links: Asylum seekers, Vietnam, India, big data and more
The role of Australia's aid program in the PNG asylum seeker plan is the subject of this powerful piece from Jo Chandler. -
24 Jul 2013 15:07
PNG reacts strongly to asylum seeker deal
Martyn Namorong is a multi-award winning writer, blogger and television presenter. -
24 Jul 2013 13:07
Kevin Rudd on asylum seeker in 2006
From his essay in The Monthly, Faith in Politics: -
24 Jul 2013 12:07
RAMSI, ten years on
Co-authored by Dr Karl Claxton, an analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. -
24 Jul 2013 10:07
Asylum deal a nightmare for PNG and Australia
Deni ToKunai is a political commentator who writes PNG's leading political blog, The Garamut. -
24 Jul 2013 09:07
The Anglosphere: A view from Europe
Dr Daniel Woker is the former Swiss Ambassador to Australia and now a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Gallen. -
23 Jul 2013 16:07
Hard for US to escape Middle East
Marty Harris is the Lowy Institute's Assistant Digital Editor. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are heading to Washington for peace talks. -
23 Jul 2013 15:07
Reader riposte: Paul Keating's Asia quip
Chris Showell writes: The article Boats, Aid and the Art of the Possible by Gary Hogan concludes with a comment that: -
23 Jul 2013 14:07
Japan's turn to nationalism? Not quite
Rikki Kersten is a Professor of Modern Japanese Political History at the ANU. -
23 Jul 2013 14:07
Robotics in action
A quick follow-up to last Friday's post noting this Wilson Quarterly think piece on the economic implica -
23 Jul 2013 12:07
G20 on tax avoidance: Talk or action?
Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre. -
23 Jul 2013 11:07
Tuesday links: AQAP, arctic ships, China forecasts, Egypt, Japan and more
US challenges abroad: Michael Fullilove's recent appearance on the Charlie Rose Show now online. -
23 Jul 2013 09:07
Kevin Rudd, you're not a good friend of PNG
Martyn Namorong is a multi-award winning writer, blogger and television presenter. -
22 Jul 2013 15:07
Rudd's PNG solution will work, but it isn't right
Dr Khalid Koser is a Lowy Institute Non-Resident Fellow and Deputy Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Prime Minister Rudd's new asylum policy is likely to work. -
22 Jul 2013 13:07
Michael Hayden reveals true scale of US-China intelligence competition
Anyone remotely interested in security and intelligence issues would have to be living under a rock to have missed this recent interview with the former head of the CIA and the NSA, General Mich -
22 Jul 2013 12:07
China links: PLA reform, finance reform, corruption, infrastructure and more
World Bank blogger: 'Short of a cataclysm in China, China is already the largest economy in the world--or will be so in 18 to 24 months. -
22 Jul 2013 11:07
Japan: Back to the future
The exit polls from yesterday's Upper House elections confirm that Japan has returned to one-party democratic rule -
22 Jul 2013 09:07
Boats, aid and the art of the possible
Retired Brigadier Gary Hogan has been Australia’s Defence Attaché in both Papua New Guinea and the Republic of Indonesia. -
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19 Jul 2013 15:07
Reader riposte: US 'all in' for the rebalance?
Iain Henry responds to Sam Roggeveen's post: -
19 Jul 2013 15:07
India links: School lunch tragedy, FDI, caste prejudice, China and more
BBC Delhi correspondent Soutik Biswas is following the school lunch poisoning tragedy on his blog. -
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19 Jul 2013 09:07
Friday links: Streets of Tehran, Pew survey, Aussies in Syria and more
The US Navy wants $65 million in emergency funds to deal with a new mystery weapon. (Thanks Raoul.) -
18 Jul 2013 15:07
Why foreign land acquisition is good for Australia
Cynthia Dearin is Managing Director of Dearin & Associates, a consulting firm focused on investment and cultural ties with the Middle East and North Africa. -
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18 Jul 2013 11:07
Syrian tit-for-tat in Lebanon
Although Hizbullah forces have been active in Syria for a long time, they had largely been confined to training and advisory roles, usually under the cover of protecting the Sayyida Zainab shrine in Damascus or Lebanese Shi'a villages which, by some quirk of cartography, were actually within Syri -
18 Jul 2013 10:07
Food security and Australian land
Cynthia Dearin is Managing Director of Dearin & Associates, a consulting firm focused on investment and cultural ties with the Middle East and North Africa. -
18 Jul 2013 09:07
Reader riposte: Churchill's Anglosphere
Darryl Daugherty responds to Sam Roggeveen's post on the Anglosphere: -
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17 Jul 2013 14:07
Development links: IKEA shelter, refugee data, HIV in Vietnam and more
The World Bank's country classifications are generating ongoing debate, with news that -
17 Jul 2013 12:07
Welcome to new readers
To those who have discovered The Interpreter recently via links from Marginal Revolution, -
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17 Jul 2013 09:07
Abbott's 'so-called' carbon market
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's clumsy remarks on climate change ('a so-called market, in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one') have been -
16 Jul 2013 17:07
Interview: 'How Asia Works' part III
Below is the third part of my exchange with Joe Studwell, author of How Asia Works. -
16 Jul 2013 15:07
Why does China still receive foreign aid?
Dr Philippa Brant is a Lowy Institute Research Associate. -
16 Jul 2013 13:07
Israeli film festival, Sydney
My thanks to reader Markus for a link to TimeOut's coverage of Sydney's upcoming Israeli film festival (13-27 August). -
16 Jul 2013 10:07
Rudd rides the PNG tiger economy
As a long-time advocate for paying attention to Australia's relations with Papua New Guinea, I have to cheer Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to visit Port Moresby so -
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16 Jul 2013 09:07
Foreign policy: Wonks are not in charge
Interesting set of foreign policy headlines from Australia's major news outlets this morning. I think it's fair to say that if you polled 200 foreign policy experts around Australia, not one would say that whaling and 'the boats' are Australia's top foreign policy priorities. -
15 Jul 2013 17:07
The 'win-win' New Zealand-Taiwan FTA
On the measure of FTAs signed, New Zealand's 'Asian Century' project is doing better than that of its larger, louder neighbour. -
15 Jul 2013 15:07
China links: Democracy, Osnos, carbon trading, China Dream and more
Quite an achievement: NZ now has free trade deals with China and Taiwan. (We'll have more on this later in the week.) -
15 Jul 2013 13:07
The world's most dangerous road
The Lowari Pass must have a decent claim to this title. A fascinating glimpse of Pakistani life courtesy of Al Jazeera: