President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013,immediately winning over many foreign governments with promises of unprecedented investment.
The son of notorious dictator Ferdinand Marcos is the only South-East Asian leader to take the Lowy Institute’s stage during next week’s ASEAN summit.
Kearns is CEO of home builder AV Jennings,which like the Wallabies,is well past its glory days.
The human element is bonus,not business. The real reason for the greater Australian priority is China.
Sam Roggeveen is firing rhetorical torpedoes at Australia’s cosy consensus on defence and stirring up debate with his provocative new book,The Echidna Strategy.
Germany’s foreign minister has praised Australia for serving as a role model on how to withstand attempted Chinese economic coercion.
Chinese Australians feel increasingly positive about life in Australia,but an annual survey has found their views on some issues differ significantly from the broader population.
China has registered the largest power decline of any country in Asia because of hardline COVID rules,while Australia is closer to overtaking Russia.
The NZ prime minister warned against isolating China unnecessarily,and argued against viewing the war in Ukraine as a contest between democracy and autocracy.
In a new book,political commentator Paul Kelly focuses on Morrison’s mission and motives – but it suffers from muddled thinking.
Rather than lean on Jakarta to fall into line with the West’s strategic objectives,a non-aligned,prosperous Indonesia can help ensure a more balanced Asia where it is harder for any one power to dominate.