North Korea remains committed to perfecting a deployable nuclear weapon capability. It is confident in the understanding that there appears little the international community can do to prevent it.
President Xi Jinping and the rest of the Chinese leadership do not get to positions of national leadership without undergoing decades of trials to demonstrate their capacity to run a country.
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The China Model features political meritocracy at the top, democracy at the bottom and experimentation in between. The West can learn from the best of Chinese leadership, even if it is authoritarian.
Difficult days: a trader checks her phone on the trading floor at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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The Shanghai composite index is proving to be one of the most volatile markets in the world and government regulation is having some unforeseen effects.
Capitalism is, as the Marxists used to say, full of contradictions. It may well be the greatest wealth-generating machine ever invented. But it is famously volatile, unpredictable and prone to cyclical…
Gareth Evans, foreign minister in the Hawke government, brought an ambitious vision for Australia’s international diplomacy to cabinet.
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There is little of Gareth Evans’ sweeping analysis in the cabinet papers of 1990-91 of a rapidly changing world order or of his vision of good international citizenship.
Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull’s predecessor as prime minister, enjoyed a close relationship with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe.
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Australia looks set to continue to confront its core foreign policy dilemma: balancing relations between its largest trading partner, China, and its key security partners, the US and Japan.
An example of the restoration of a degraded mountain slope in China. The country has numerous initiatives underway to battle climate change.
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The US-China relationship is crucial to any global deal on climate change. How strong is their common commitment to working on climate change, and can it last?
China has experienced deforestation in some parts of the country placing valuable biodiversity at risk of extinction.
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There are reports that China-based hackers have compromised the Bureau of Meteorology. If so, what would this mean for the BOM and government security?
China’s upcoming Five-Year Plan places innovation on the table, so will Australians follow the lead and transform alongside their Chinese partners?
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