The West is gripped by China fear and risks are catastrophised, yet we must find a way to live with China, to manage risks

Australia’s engagement with the Pacific must step-up from donor-recipient relationships to whole-of-government, enduring partnerships

We are facing a crisis of international cooperation in this decade of risk. We need to rethink how to solve global challenges

Australia sees the South Pacific through a security lens, China has economic priorities. Might they partner for sustainable development?

The 50th Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu was a disaster for the Australian government. Canberra’s position in the regional organization t...

Managing environmental risk is now a critical component of doing business in the Asia Pacific says UN Business Forum Chair, David Morris

Australia and China have built a significant level of interdependence, with their economies deeply integrated and growing people-to-peopl...

“I make robots” said the sharply dressed young man.  We had arrived at the same time to an event celebrating forty years of China’s “open...

In the tiny Pacific island of Yap, when it was time for a girl to become a woman she would go to a special house in the forest for four m...

Hong Kong is a truly global city. As a result of its unique history it is both Chinese and yet different from everywhere else in China. I...

I currently live between Beijing and Budapest, between two countries that are deeply misunderstood in the wider world.  Both have had ver...

The Cyprus problem, still unresolved a quarter of a century since I wrote this analysis of the UN peacekeeping force, originally publishe...

It was the summer of 1990 and I was on my way to Budapest, to take up a position as a junior diplomat in the Australian Embassy.  The wor...

Look at any map of the world.  The Pacific Ocean is important.  It is not only because it covers about one third of the planet.  The Paci...

That's quite an Opera House you have there, Astana. Not only an Opera House, but all kinds of grand buildings and monuments.  Is this a ...

It’s a country many people haven’t heard much about, but it is hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders in November, ...

We are going to need to learn how to better work together.  We in the vast Pacific Ocean know this.  It is why our leaders created the Pa...

At the United Nations Oceans Conference in New York on June 9, 2017, world leaders committed to conserve and sustainably use our oceans a...

Pacific peoples are the custodians of the world’s largest, most peaceful and abundant ocean, its many islands and its rich diversity of c...

Address to the UNESCAP High Level Dialogue on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration for Enhancing Sustainable Development in Asia...