Author: Luvsanvandan Bold, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mongolia Mongolia’s ancestors were risk-takers who built the largest contiguous land empire in world history ranging from the Korean...
Author: Kirill Nourzhanov, ANU After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the energy potential of Central Asia — especially the hydrocarbon reserves in the Caspian Sea basin...
Author: Adam P. MacDonald, Halifax For decades, China has been Myanmar’s principal international partner. In the years preceding Myanmar’s opening up, China dominated Myanmar’s foreign discourse...
Author: Liam Gammon, ANU Indonesia’s PDI-P party, the home of Soekarno-ist nationalism, was expecting Wednesday’s legislative elections to carry it to a stunning comeback after a...
Author: Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan, Blue Banner, UN Mongolia is a relative newcomer in contemporary world politics. The end of the cold war, the normalisation of Sino–Russian and...
Author: Kirill Nourzhanov, ANU By local standards, 2013 proved quite successful for the people and leaders of the five Central Asian republics. There were no major...
Author: Sheryn Lee, University of Pennsylvania In 2013, Taiwan’s political and economic developments again centred on its relationship with China, and the effect of cross-Strait rapprochement...
Author: Joseph Cheng, City University of Hong Kong Around 120,000 people recently took to the streets to protest against the government’s decision not to grant a...
Author: Le Hong Hiep, UNSW ADFA and VNU On 12 November 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to Vietnam. This was his second...