Managing political risks on the Belt and Road This year has demonstrated the critical importance of managing risks. An Expert Blog on Belt and Road risks
Decoupling: Trump's Challenge to the Global Order The US is pushing to decouple from China, but the Trump administration’s geopolitical confrontation with Beijing is spooking others
Global opportunities, but with political risks 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
Political risk on the Belt and Road China's Belt & Road Initiative has generated a discourse of political risks, at the same time as rising US-China geopolitical contest
Social credit: the next China risk for business 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 en...
No substitute for cooperation in sustainable development We need to reimagine what international cooperation would look like, because we need it more than ever to build back stronger and smarter
China fear in a time of Covid The West is gripped by China fear and risks are catastrophised, yet we must find a way to live with China, to manage risks
It's time for a Pacific "step in" to Australia's council of governments Australia’s engagement with the Pacific must step-up from donor-recipient relationships to whole-of-government, enduring partnerships
Decade of Risk We are facing a crisis of international cooperation in this decade of risk. We need to rethink how to solve global challenges
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Geopolitics of the South Pacific Australia sees the South Pacific through a security lens, China has economic priorities. Might they partner for sustainable development?
Australia's Pacific "step up" stumbles The 50th Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu was a disaster for the Australian government. Canberra’s position in the regional organization t...
UN Asia Pacific Business Forum raises sustainability risks Managing environmental risk is now a critical component of doing business in the Asia Pacific says UN Business Forum Chair, David Morris
Australia - China geopolitics and the South Pacific Australia and China have built a significant level of interdependence, with their economies deeply integrated and growing people-to-peopl...
To see the future, look at Shenzhen “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...
A remote Pacific Island faces up to China 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...
A Hong Kong day 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...
Hungary’s China Hedge I currently live between Beijing and Budapest, between two countries that are deeply misunderstood in the wider world. Both have had ver...
Keeping but not Making Peace: the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus The Cyprus problem, still unresolved a quarter of a century since I wrote this analysis of the UN peacekeeping force, originally publishe...
Rising in the East 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...
China, the Pacific and the Blue Economy 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...
Will Astana become the Singapore of Central Asia? 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 ...
Papua New Guinea: A New Gold Mountain? It’s a country many people haven’t heard much about, but it is hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders in November, ...
Partnership for a sustainable, blue economy 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...
