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2018 Geopolitical Forecast: Asia Pacific 0
- Asia Pacific
- December 19, 2017
Expect tension and conflict to increase within and between many Asian nations in 2018.
The third way: Asia’s economic leadership turmoil 0
- Asia Pacific
- December 6, 2017
Asia’s middle powers are fighting a dogged defence of US trade values while Washington vacillates.
China-Rosneft ties: a burgeoning but unstable dynamic 0
- Former Soviet Union
- November 21, 2017
A focus on short-term gains may lead to blowback for Beijing and Russia’s state-owned oil company.
An eastern caliphate? The future of ISIS in Mindanao 0
- Southeast Asia
- November 17, 2017
Each setback to peace in the southern Philippines has encouraged more radical insurgents.
In the firing line: South Korea’s wartime OPCON transfer 0
- Asia Pacific
- November 9, 2017
President Moon is determined to take back control of South Korea’s operational command from the US.
The intractable insurgency: more violence in Marawi?0
- Southeast Asia
- November 8, 2017
A hollow response to the Marawi siege could invite a new terrorist wave across Southeast Asia.

Proxies: the brutal geopolitics of the Rohingya crisis 0
- Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific
- November 1, 2017
National strategic interests have taken precedent over the suffering of hundreds of thousands.
Abe triumphant: making sense of the Japanese election 0
- Asia Pacific
- October 27, 2017
Despite scandals and low approval ratings, Abe government was re-elected with a two-thirds majority.
Testing Hun Sen: Cambodia’s opposition flees into exile 0
- Southeast Asia
- October 25, 2017
By silencing the opposition, Prime Minister Hun Sen faces little opposition at next year’s election.
The PLA in transition: in pursuit of the ‘China Dream’0
- China
- October 18, 2017
Xi is hastening military reforms by ousting officers who may oppose his joint force vision.
The Chinese Communist Party Congress: Xi ascendant?0
- China
- October 15, 2017
This week’s high-profile gathering will be the greatest test yet of President Xi Jinping’s leadership.
Troubled waters: Australia and China in the Pacific 0
- Asia Pacific
- October 6, 2017
In trying to escape Australia’s neocolonial attitudes, Pacific nations may become indebted to China.