Submarines versus Facebook
Eyeing Beijing, Taiwan’s political class is nervous, yet again. Australia is jumpy too for lesser reasons. Taiwan’s fear looms close…
Truth, meet error
Recently at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, new university president Lawrence Bacow was blocked from giving his speech on universities and…
My plan for a new Korea
Trump does not nibble, he leaps, to high ground or low. North Korea is an issue ripe for a Trump…
Fish or bear’s paw?
Last century, when Mao ruled China, shop assistants repeated daily, ‘We don’t have any more’ (Meiyou). I heard the phrase…
Buffoons, donkeys and little men
Good news for Australia in Beijing this week, if a mild setback for Kiwis. In the twelve months to February…
Letter from Beijing
Political extravaganzas in China, like October’s 19th Communist Party Congress, aren’t policy turning points. They are theatre. Only one of…
Of myths and messiahs
There is much about the legacy of Whitlam that is reminiscent of Kennedy and Obama
