Global Politics

China and India share a 4000km long border, and it’s been a relationship that has had its tense moments. This situation ... Read more

In contemporary South Asia, conflict is an all too frequent feature of life. As in other parts of Asia, increasingly th... Read more

Ben Habib (Politics, La Trobe University) on the political climate in North Korea, and their nuclear weapon capabilities... Read more

Recent years have witnessed mingled alarm and envy in the West at the supposed excellence of China's education system - ... Read more

State intervention in natural resource management is often inflexible, but projects in the Kangra District of India have... Read more

Is Tibetanness under threat? As more young Tibet are lured towards a dominant Chinese education, Tibetans are faced with... Read more

China has announced a relaxing of the family planning policy, with a change of the existing law to a two-child policy be... Read more

On 12th June 2018 the world witnessed a peace summit between two long feuding leaders the United States president Donald... Read more

On the 22nd May 2014 the Royal Thai Armed forces led by General Prayuth Chan-ocha launched a coup against the democratic... Read more

China's economy is in a state of transition, and its success and failure has an impact on a global level. Dr Geoff Raby ... Read more

East Asia’s security environment is changing rapidly. China’s power and confidence is rising, the US is increasingly int... Read more

For most defectors the decision to leave North Korea is never an easy one, and there are major difficulties in addressin... Read more

Alongside China and India, Brazil is an emerged economic giant. It is also custodian of a large part of the environmenta... Read more

India struggles with environmental imperatives. Its cities have the worst air pollution in the world, its iconic rivers ... Read more

Professor Nick Bisley (Executive Director of La Trobe Asia) and Dr Benjamin Habib (Politics and International Relations,... Read more

After years of civil unrest, will Nepal's struggling democracy survive the recent earthquake? In this episode of Asia Ri... Read more

Chinese philosophy has a long history stretching back more than two thousand years and covers schools of thought such as... Read more

The Philippines’ maverick president, Rodrigo Duterte, has had a turbulent first year in office. His crime fighting agend... Read more

China's economy has long been a story of success and growth, and being the second largest in the world has given it a po... Read more

China’s emergence as a global power of the first rank has changed the Asian region and the world. It has reordered estab... Read more