Security

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU When, how, and why do domestic politics shape Southeast Asian states’ relationships with China? This is almost a trick question — not only the diversity of…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU The United States and China now confront each other awkwardly across the regional and global stage in a new era of great power competition. Though it’s…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Jia Qingguo, Peking University As the poet Shelley once hopefully wrote, ‘if winter comes, can spring be far behind?’ When it comes to China–US relations now, it seems that…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Wang Yong, Peking University The COVID-19 pandemic and major power competition tested China in 2021. A review of the trends of 2021 reveals the opportunities and challenges ahead. COVID-19…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU Donald Trump’s presidency signalled a decisive US retreat from free and open trade and leadership of the multilateral trading system that had fostered unprecedented trade and…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Megan Hogan, PIIE It was a year of transition for US trade policy in 2021. The Trump administration’s trade representative Robert Lighthizer was replaced by…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU Japan’s Fast Retailing CEO Tadashi Yanai, who runs the Uniqlo clothing chain, declared that his company wouldn’t be choosing between the United States and China in…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Collin Koh, NTU The ongoing COVID-19 crisis stalled the intended conclusion of the proposed South China Sea Code of Conduct (COC) by 2021. Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin…