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, China’s Nasdaq, was plummeting from astronomical …
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 difficult choices in conducting…
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 foreseeable future the Communist government will follow the fate of …
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 was elected in 2013. As the government…
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 in the region. China has not been…
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 a limited exercise…
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 fault lines between civilizations…
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 Labor government. Former prime ministers…
