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The relationship with China is of critical importance to Australia. It is also increasingly complex, being influenced by economics, domestic...
Australia has implemented a wide range of policies which, while not explicitly anti-China, are definitely interpreted that way. Other countr...
For decades in Australia we have assumed that America will prevent any serious emerging military threats to Australia, or defend us from the...
In recent years, the Indian and Chinese states have become increasingly assertive in the Himalaya. Driven in part by their mutual enmity and...
When talking about Chinese international politics, the loudest voices are often western ones, and the Chinese perspective is limited to offi...
For the most part, China has seen Australia as an especially agreeable and non-troubling partner, as a predictable American security ally bu...
China and India share a 4000km long border, and it’s been a relationship that has had its tense moments. This situation is made all the more...
For most defectors the decision to leave North Korea is never an easy one, and there are major difficulties in addressing the refugee crisis...
When Narendra Modi and the BJP won the 2014 election in India they did so under the slogan 'Achhe din aane waale hain' - Good days are comin...
In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extraj...
There are 22 official languages in India, but more than 780 have been recognised. It can be a challenge to communicate across the country, a...
Religion and caste divides Indians in many ways - religion primarily between Hindu and Muslim, with Hindu further divided by a complex caste...
With a fast-growing population and aspirations to join the throwaway prosperity of the developed world, India generates vast quantities of w...
The Indian National Congress party in India has mostly looked to the Nehru-Gandhi family for leadership, making them powerful figures in Ind...
India goes to the polls in 2019, and the popular incumbent Narendra Modi is currently favoured to retain his position. With close to a billi...
The vibrant fashion styles of Tokyo are notable for their colour and playfullness, and the shojo culture (girls) draw on anime, manga, liter...
In 2017 India celebrated 70 years of independence from British rule. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the country, calling for the peo...
India will soon be unveiling the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity. At 182m tall it towers over its nearest competitor by more tha...
The Bund, or Wai Tan in Chinese, is a waterfront strip in central Shanghai. It is within the former Shanghai International Settlement, and s...
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, North Korea may be assembling more nuclear weapons, Japan is building up its military a...
In recent months there has been intense speculation in the media and in policy forums about China’s involvement in the Pacific. In turn, thi...
East Asia’s security environment is changing rapidly. China’s power and confidence is rising, the US is increasingly introspective and uncer...
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, and its regional ambitions are growing. Reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may...
For decades Australia’s security and economic policy has been developed based on an established regional order coming out of World War II, b...
Waste in India is an important and visible issue, and the country is struggling to manage and process recycling. While a reported 60% of pla...
For most defectors the decision to leave North Korea is never an easy one, and there are major difficulties in addressing the refugee crisis...
Japan is one of many countries faced with an ageing population, but the problem is quite pronounced. The world's lowest fertility rate combi...
The mausoleum of Emperor Qin is a national treasure of China, and is known throughout the world for the army of terracotta warriors that gua...
On 12th June 2018 the world witnessed a peace summit between two long feuding leaders the United States president Donald Trump and North Kor...
In recent history the world witnessed a peace summit between the United States president Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim-Jong Un....
Chinese philosophy has a long history stretching back more than two thousand years and covers schools of thought such as Confucianism, Taois...
China's economy has long been a story of success and growth, and being the second largest in the world has given it a position of power in t...
India’s fast-growing population, and aspirations to join the throwaway prosperity of the developed world, generate vast quantities of waste,...
Asia’s elderly population is on track to reach a billion by 2050, and there are few governments prepared to meet this change, which will hav...
The future of the Indo-Pacific region is being buffeted by an array of complex forces including the return of great power rivalry, rising il...
Any visitor to China will be acutely aware of the amount of security, and nowhere is this more visible than the nation’s capital, Beijing. G...
The Chinese education system has had its criticisms, but many argue that it delivers, at least in the larger cities such as Shanghai and Hon...
Indonesia is a sprawling nation of islands across south-east Asia, and two environmental concerns are significant – deforestation and rising...
China operates on a scale that outclasses every other country, and are taking climate change seriously. As the world’s biggest polluter many...
North Korea is a country that can little afford a close examination of ecological impact. The environment exists and is protected as long as...
India struggles with environmental imperatives. Its cities have the worst air pollution in the world, its iconic rivers are, in some places,...
With China's emergence as a power of the first rank it has changed the Asian region and indeed the world. It has reordered established patte...
China’s emergence as a global power of the first rank has changed the Asian region and the world. It has reordered established patterns of t...
China and Australia have relationship anchored by strong trade bonds, and there is a respectful prime-ministerial level dialogue between the...
Australia has a vital set of relationships with its Asian neighbours, built on the foundation of shared geography, security interests and mu...
Western countries are impressed by the performance of China's schools in international tests and search for the secrets of their success, bu...
India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is a man with strong views on economics. He came into office in 2014 with a vision for India to be a...
For the past 15 years western democracies have appeared to reach a crisis point. Cynicism towards political institutions is widespread, with...
Modern India stands on the threshold of becoming a global power. As it seeks to revitalise its economy and improve the health and education...
Much of migration to Melbourne is studied in a post-war context dominated by Greeks and Italians fleeing a post-war Europe, but it undoubted...