Category Archives: Asia-Pacific Politics
Beyond the Asia-Pacific: China’s Next Geo-Strategic ‘Stepping Stone’
STROBE DRIVER, JUN 4 2016, 3587 VIEWS Image by U.S. Pacific Command China in recent times has begun to drastically alter its role in the Asia-Pacific (A-P) region, from that of being a docile observer for many decades to being … Continue reading
But will China invade Australia?
These past weeks have seen Clive Palmer MP berate the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government and other (Chinese) that have had business dealings with him. This was followed by a further dictum from his colleague Senator Jacqui Lambie speaking … Continue reading
What a State demands, what a citizen gives, and what Abbott and Hockey simply don’t understand
Recent history and the dreaded ‘age of entitlement’ mantra The rhetoric from the Abbott-Hockey mantra of the ‘age of entitlement’ appears to be getting more manic as a viewing of the ABC’s Parliament Question Time will attest; and as other … Continue reading
Australia’s Abbott government, the Asia-Pacific region and the ‘China Divide’
Prime Minister (PM) Abbott arrived in China after a somewhat successful mission to Japan and South Korea recently, in acquiring trade benefits on some Australian exports. Broadly speaking, his visit to parts of the Asia-Pacific (AP) region has been hailed … Continue reading
The Rise of Pax-Sino and the Asia-Pacific Region
This is a presentation I gave as part of the Cultural Enquiry Research Group (CERG) on the 3rd of March 2014, entitled ‘The Kangaroo, the Eagle and the Dragon: Australia-America-China and the possibility of war in the ‘Asian Century.’ It … Continue reading
Australian Navy ‘strays’ into Indonesian waters
There is much to read in to what has happened recently in the straying of Australian Navy vessels into Indonesian sovereign waters and the ire this has raised in the officials of their government. From a party that espouses ‘sovereignty’ one would think … Continue reading
The Indonesia spy scandal and the future for Australia
Professor White of the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre is right in his article in The Age, on 26 November, 2013: ‘Abbott playing with diplomatic fire in Asia.’ The level of incompetence shown by the Abbott government in dealing with … Continue reading
