Permacrisis can’t be the future of US–China relations
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Confusion, miscommunication, lies, crude posturing, finger-pointing— last month’s ‘balloongate’ was the contemporary US–China relationship in microcosm.…
Global diplomacy breaks the hard nexus between war and famine
Author: Editorial Board, ANU This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Bengal Famine in India and the less well-known…
The unintended consequences of unconstrained economic sanctions
Author: Editorial Board, ANU It’s now been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. In response to an unprovoked act of…
A different kind of Asia Pacific minilateralism is now needed
Author: Editorial Board, ANU There’s no question that the risks of political and economic fragmentation that come with great power…
Dangerous divides bedevil Southeast Asia’s majority-Muslim democracies
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Around the time of Indonesia’s 2019 presidential elections, there was great concern about the damage that…
Getting India’s trade strategy aligned with its national development ambitions
Author: Editorial Board, ANU India is stepping into the spotlight on the world stage this year as the host of…
Dealing with China’s polycrisis
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Those paying attention to the World Economic Forum in Davos will doubtless have heard the latest…
Asia’s response to US trashing of the rules-based international trading system
Author: Editorial Board, ANU The end of 2022 left no doubt that the Biden administration in Washington had joined its…
Myanmar presents ASEAN with only bad options
Author: Editorial Board, ANU So dominant was the focus on the creep of Cold War dynamics into the geopolitical landscape…
Sri Lanka out of intensive care, but still in the trauma ward
Author: Editorial Board, ANU If you think your New Year hangover was bad, spare a thought for Sri Lanka. In…