Pacific

Book Review: China Matters: Getting it Right for Australia

John Hemmings

John Hemmings review China Matters: Getting it Right for Australia by Bates Gill and Linda Jakobson.

Independent Ally: Australia in an Age of Power Transition

William Clapton

William Clapton reviews Independent Ally: Australia in an Age of Power Transition, by Shannon Tow.

India and China: Will the Doklam Row Plateau Off?

Shashank Joshi

Since mid-June, India and China have been locked in the most serious crisis between the two countries in 30 years.

Britain Needs New Safeguards to Deal with Chinese Investment

John Hemmings

China’s foreign direct investment is both necessary and welcome. However, it comes with risks, which current legal structures in Britain are ill-equipped to assess.

Is China’s Xi Jinping Removing Possible Successors?

Charles Parton

President Xi Jinping has moved decisively and unexpectedly against one of the top 25 Communist Party officials in the Politburo, Sun Zhengcai, once seen as a possible successor.

""China's naval presence in the Indian Ocean is showing signs of a qualitative shift," Joshi said, noting the mainland's growing patrols and the July 12 dispatch of Chinese troops to a military base in Djibouti — Beijing's first long-term foreign military deployment in almost 60 years. "This Chinese facility is not just a platform from which China can project initially modest power into the western Indian Ocean, but will also justify and support a greater volume and pace of other patrols through the eastern and central Indian Ocean," Joshi added. "

As India and China face off in the mountains, a new confrontation is growing in the ocean