Author: Andrew Elek, ANU China’s president, Xi Jinping, announced the creation of an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) just before the October 2013 APEC meeting in...
Author: Kishore Mahbubani, NUS In 2019, barely five years away, the world will pass one of its most significant historical milestones. For the first time in...
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: Ross Garnaut, University of Melbourne Australia is enjoying its 22nd year of economic growth without recession — an experience that is unprecedented in any other...
Author: P. K. Ghosh, Observer Research Foundation Vietnam’s recent granting of seven oil blocks in the South China Sea for exploration by India is part of...
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: Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Chulalongkorn University Never has Thai politics degenerated so quickly from uneasy accommodation to outright insurrection in just a month. It started with a...
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...