Author: Peter Drysdale, ANU The Chinese authorities moved decisively on many fronts last week to put a floor under the collapse of Chinese stock markets. ChiNext,...
Author: Chu Nguyen, UHD The appreciation of the Vietnamese dong, coupled with characteristics specific to Vietnam’s transitional economy, leaves the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) with...
Author: Jerome A. Cohen, NYU Forecasts of China’s future run the gamut. I do not endorse either extreme. There is no significant chance that in the...
Author: Peter Drysdale, East Asia Forum There were mixed signals from the current Australian Liberal-National Party Coalition government on its approach to foreign investment when it...
Chinese investment in Sri Lanka is causing major problems for Sri Lanka’s President Mathripala Sirisena and has become a point of tension in Sri Lanka–China relations.
Author: Sourabh Gupta, Samuels International Over the past six years, unilateral and escalatory actions by claimants to territories in the South China Sea have exacerbated tensions...
Author: Ben Ascione, ANU Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are negotiating with their coalition partner, Komeito, to introduce legislation recognising...
Author: Peter Drysdale, East Asia Forum Over twenty years ago, Samuel Huntington warned that the world faced a future that would be dominated by the ‘clash of civilisations’. ‘The...
Author: Stuart Harris, ANU Australia’s foreign policy has been a mix of positives and negatives under the Liberal-National Coalition government, as was true of the previous...