Author: Dong Dong Zhang, ANU

The US–China trade deal announced on 12 May is another clear sign of warming official relations between the United States and China. The deal is an early harvest of the 100 day plan that Xi proposed to Trump to help the United States expand its exports to China. Read more…

Author: Allan Gyngell, ANU

When the Australian government announced plans for a foreign policy White Paper to provide a ‘comprehensive framework to guide our international engagement over the next 5 to 10 years’, it must have known what a difficult task it had set itself. Read more…

Author: Sourabh Gupta, ICAS

Chinese President Xi Jinping has not been shy to employ assertive diplomacy in support of an ambitious, long-term and strategic foreign policy agenda. No single political project personifies this lack of reticence more than the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Read more…

Author: Hugh White, ANU

This month, what is likely to be this year’s biggest international summit will convene in Beijing to discuss the world’s most ambitious project. China’s Belt and Road Initiative aims to redefine the global economy of the 21st century Read more…

Author: Abdul Basit, RSIS

Unites States National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster embarked on his maiden visit to South Asia on 16 April 2017. McMaster’s trip to the region is part of the on-going consultation process ahead of finalising the Trump administration’s South Asia policy. Read more…

Author: Yoram Evron, University of Haifa

Over the years, China and Japan have followed very different paths of involvement in the Middle East. The one policy that both countries have consistently shared though is steering well clear of the region’s politics and conflicts. This is starting to change. Read more…

Author: Enze Han, SOAS

Conflict has flared up again in the Kokang region along the Sino–Myanmar border, leading to the deaths of at least 30 people and the outflowing of more than 20,000 refugees from Myanmar into China’s Yunnan province. Read more…