Tag Archive for: "Asia–Pacific"
Cyber wrap

Cyber news remains a bit topsy-turvy state-side thanks to the new US President. While Donald Trump was expected to drop a new Executive Order on cybersecurity a few weeks ago, it never “officially” materialised, though …

Making the most of the French connection

One of 2016’s more notable surprises was the selection, in April, of French shipbuilder DCNS as the principal partner to design and build Australia’s future submarines. Few Australians would have anticipated that outcome, but it’s …

Japan and Oz do the trilateral on Trump

Since the 1960s, Australia and Japan have built one of Asia’s closest partnerships. I was going to say one of Asia’s most unusual, but lots of relationships in this region are strange. When times get …

Trump and strategic change in Asia

It’s 20 January, Inauguration Day in the United States, and nobody now doubts that we’re destined to live in what the Chinese would call ‘interesting times’. The new president’s campaign rhetoric strongly intimated that under …

Asia 2017: strategic transformation accelerates

In a recent podcast for Foreign Policy, editor David Rothkopf interviewed Thomas Friedman about his latest book—essentially an argument for why, in 2017, we should feel optimistic about the future. Friedman’s core argument is that …