The political aftershocks from the Myanmar earthquake will reverberate long after the rescue teams return home, writes Nicholas Coppel.

Tragedy for Myanmar, Dangers for Donors

Faced with 46 per cent US tariffs, Vietnam is unlikely to retaliate in kind. It is likely that Hanoi would avoid confrontation and lean on diplomacy instead.

How Will Vietnam Deal With President Trump’s Shocking Tariffs?

There are opportunities for Indonesia in the disruption caused by the new Trump tariff regime, writes Arianto A. Patunru. But it will require the kind of bold domestic reform carried out in response to previous economic emergencies.

Can Indonesia Rise to the Trump Tariff Challenge?

In David Armstrong’s Asian media review this week: “Reciprocal” tariffs savage poor nations. Plus: Auto levies hand “keys to the future” to China; Myanmar military declares ceasefire but continues fighting; Black carbon pollution a threat to glaciers; US, India in nuclear power deal; Bitter times for Darjeeling tea industry

Asia battered by Trump’s harsh tariffs – Asian Media Report

Amid concerns over China’s rise, European countries are turning their gaze to Asia. Former diplomat John McCarthy says regional players like Japan and Australia must work with the Europeans to ensure the new Biden Administration gives more policy weight to the region, and especially Southeast Asia. 

Europe's back

This year the United Nations marked the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). But, as Professor Emeritus Ramesh Thakur, a renowned expert on nuclear control regimes, notes there is little to celebrate and even less to be optimistic about as the risks of nuclear war persist, especially in the Indo-Pacific. Some bold new thinking is required. 

Crisis and stability in nuclear triangle 

A dangerous assumption has long been made, perhaps innocently, in Canberra’s formulation of China policy that sufficient Australia literacy is in place in China to avoid disastrous misunderstanding and miscalculation, writes Diane Hu. 

China Australia literacy

Indonesia’s presidential candidates have had little to say on foreign policy. But whoever is sworn-in as President this year will face one of the most challenging international environments to confront a new Indonesian administration.

Indonesia missing debate

While the warming China-Russia partnership poses challenges for the Western-led international order, India faces its own dilemmas in how to handle relations between an old rival and an old friend, write Arun Sahgal and Anshita Shukla. 

China Russia India

The rise of China necessitates the rise of Australian knowledge of China. As David S. G. Goodman writes, this knowledge is vital to our economic prosperity and national security.

China studies Australia future

Australia once had a vibrant cultural relationship with China. Michael Keane asks, could its revival help ease current diplomatic tensions? 

Can culture help

China’s 'Asian way' is an all-embracing idea and a coded language to discredit other countries’ actions that are deemed harmful to China’s strategic interests, writes Hoang Thi Ha. 

Building peace

A year after Australian academic Sean Turnell was arrested in Myanmar following the military coup, his fate within a politically controlled and opaque judicial system remains uncertain. Charlotte Galloway argues fresh diplomatic approaches might be required to secure his release. 

Bring Sean Turnell home

A calibrated engagement strategy helped end Myanmar’s military dictatorship in 2015 – the same is required today. 

Biden flawed Myanmar policy

At this week's US-China summit in San Francisco, the growing threat posed by the 'nuclear tinderbox' in Northeast Asia must not be ignored, write Susan Thornton and Joel Wit. 

Biden Xi North Korea

An annual survey of elite opinion in Southeast Asia points to the necessity and opportunity for Australia to lift its engagement with its immediate region. Asialink adviser Chen Chen Lee and Catherine Hooton argue that by working with like-minded powers Australia can expand ASEAN’s geostrategic options and help them avoid a binary choice between China and the US. 

Australia's strategic opportunity

Australia’s China problem—official contacts frozen and many of our exports under siege—is now gaining attention far beyond our shores. As former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans AC writes, much of the world, given stark evidence of the economic havoc that China’s displeasure can wreak, and of the ugly depths to which its 'wolf warrior diplomacy' can descend, is trying to understand both how we fell into this hole, and whether we can climb out of it with our dignity intact. 

Australia China problem

With the trajectory of China’s economy — and many other dimensions of its power — shrouded in great uncertainty, finding the right policy response requires a more contested and open debate, writes Jane Golley. 

Australia's China policy

South Korea in Crisis – Domestic Turmoil, Global Implications, and the North Korean Threat

Faced with a marriage crisis and declining birth rates, China plans to roll out new policies to encourage childbearing. But Yi Fuxian argues the weight of history and social forces is stacked against success. 

Asialink Insights

Tragedy for Myanmar, Dangers for Donors

How Will Vietnam Deal With President Trump’s Shocking Tariffs?

Can Indonesia Rise to the Trump Tariff Challenge?

Asia battered by Trump’s harsh tariffs – Asian Media Report

Tragedy for Myanmar, Dangers for Donors

How Will Vietnam Deal With President Trump’s Shocking Tariffs?

Can Indonesia Rise to the Trump Tariff Challenge?

Asia battered by Trump’s harsh tariffs – Asian Media Report