Will Economic Decline Mean Political Upheaval in China?
Kevin Rudd was last week rebuked by the Chinese Foreign Ministry for his rebuke to…More
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Chinese Friction
North Korea’s missile launches this week effectively put the last nail in the coffin of…More
Do We Really Need An Anti-China Sub?
Wayne Swan’s budget announced that Australia will receive a $27 billion military upgrade that, according…More
Propping Up The Giants
When the two US mortgage heavywieghts Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae went under, the major…More
RIP: The Press
Reading the recently deceased David Foster Wallace’s book on John McCain (McCain’s Promises: Aboard the…More
Space: The New Cold Warzone?
If you have been reading the Chinese media lately, there will be little you don’t…More
Securing the Region
Greg Sheridan doesn’t get a lot right, but I had to agree with him on…More
Who's Running the World These Days?
Last week, in a speech delivered at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, Pope Paul Keating held…More
Neo-Cold War Politics 101
The current situation in East Timor makes me think of my first year American Politics…More
China and the Phony Wars
‘You’re a phony,’ said Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, exercising a disparaging phrase…More