Self-inflicted challenges hit West on four fronts
As 2022 draws to a close, most people will be glad to see the back of it. The post-Cold War …
Foreign Policy Commentaries
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Partisan games stir up the divided states of America
US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms are expected to inflict severe …
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Xi: the loneliest man in the world
Australia is in trouble with China — again. This week the Chinese ambassador in Canberra, Xiao Qian, came close to …
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After Ukraine, America must get creative
“The process of coming to grips with one’s limits is never easy,” Henry Kissinger once wrote about the American experience …
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Re-vamping the Pacific: will Australia ‘step up’ or ‘step out’?
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi …
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Turnbull had the right idea on China
It’s important, in the interests of constructive debate, to recognise when political leaders who have been the object of serious criticism in the past turn out to have done something right and to praise them fully for it.
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Brits beat us to an independent pandemic inquiry
While Australia can beat the Brits in cricket, the Brits have beaten us in mounting an independent inquiry into government handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dark times ahead as Australia faces crisis on crisis
I used to be an optimist about the world but now I am depressed. When I was born in the early 1970s, the popular wisdom warned that, unless prompt and drastic action was taken to limit population and industrial growth and to end nuclear weapons, the world would face disaster by the end of the 20th century.
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Ties between Delhi and Canberra crucial to Indo-Pacific security
The relationship between India and Australia has grown rapidly in recent years, underpinned by a convergence of security interests in …
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Net Zero By 2050? Don’t Plan on It
As leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow for the United Nations climate-change conference, you may think the world has agreed …