This year has demonstrated the critical importance of managing risks. An Expert Blog on Belt and Road risks

The US is pushing to decouple from China, but the Trump administration’s geopolitical confrontation with Beijing is spooking others

China is taking a leading role in world order. A closer look at the Belt & Road Initiative can help to understand - and manage - the risks

A case of mistaken identity, an Australian in Hungary and a Hungarian in Australia

China's Belt & Road Initiative has generated a discourse of political risks, at the same time as rising US-China geopolitical contest

As China recovers from the Covid-19 crisis, the apparatus of the state is about to be devoted to a new form of social control. By the...

We need to reimagine what international cooperation would look like, because we need it more than ever to build back stronger and smarter

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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

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

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...