Written by Kyoko Hatakeyama
Moreover, since Japan has maintained a stable relationship with China — despite their territorial disputes — the region does not have to worry about backlash or anger from China just because they choose Japan over China.
Read MoreWritten by Nava Nuraniyah
The attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Sintang, West Kalimantan on 3 September is but one indication that the existing anti-radicalism campaign has merely served as a political weapon to target government enemies, rather than defending minorities.
Written by Drake Long
The time for introspection should not wait for the COVID narrative to shift once more. After all, the crew change crisis is still not over: the world has just entered its 30th month of leaving its seafarers out at sea, with no safe harbour for them to find.
Read MoreWritten by Phan Xuan Dung and Wichuta Teeratanabodee
Japan’s AstraZeneca provision stood out compared to China, thanks to its perceived better quality. In addition, China’s soft power has been seriously undermined by an assertion of hard power in territorial disputes and coercive diplomacy against states that refuse to toe its line.
Read MoreWritten by James Borton and Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
Sustained domestic pressure, efforts by other littoral states to align their claims with UNCLOS, and a growing chorus of countries referencing the award in their note verbales strengthen the hands of leaders who may come out more assertively on the issue.
Read MoreWritten by Mahima Duggal
Foreign aid diplomacy has shaped China’s international economic profile, transforming its image from a developing economy to an economic powerhouse at the centre of global supply chains, thus making it a critical financier of development projects in the global south.
Read MoreWritten by Aadil Brar
Amid a destabilising security environment, China has limited opportunities to provide a different model for the region and the growing involvement of European powers in the Indo-Pacific will only further complicate these plans. To date, the United Kingdom has said that they will hold naval drills with Japan; France has committed to play a growing role in the Indo-Pacific and expanded cooperation with India, and Germany has formally adopted an Indo-Pacific strategy.
Read MoreWritten by James Laurenceson
Tokyo, New Delhi, and Jakarta have all had serious challenges with Beijing, but their relations never fell to the depths of the current China-Australia tensions. These countries might offer some useful advice here, too.
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