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China’s networked leadership
Party royalty: China’s president Xi Jinping. Presidencia Perú On the night of 14 November 2011, Neil Heywood – a British businessman and consultant, resident in China for over a decade – was staying...
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Location, location, location
Starting somewhere: the Uppatasanti Pagoda in Naypyitaw. Diver Dave/ Wikimedia Myanmar has taken charge of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, for the first time. To host the hundreds...
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Prabowo versus democracy in Indonesia
“Affordable” democracy: Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto arriving at a Ramadan concert in Jakarta earlier this week. Romeo Gacad/ AFP Indonesia’s presidential election is being fought hard,...
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A post-winter’s tale
“What crisis?”: View of London from St Paul’s, 1979. M.C. Morgan/ Flickr Thirty-five years ago, on the evening of 28 March 1979, I watched from the House of Commons press gallery as Jim Callaghan’s...
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Australia–Japan relations: an alternative future
Reinterpreting: Prime minister Tony Abbott with Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe during at Parliament House on 8 July. Lukas Coch/ AAP Image While Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe was making a...
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Fear and favour
“Black campaigning”: Media proprietor Dahlan Iskan paid for a response to the libellous anti-Jokowi newspaper Obor Rakyat. Associated Press Indonesia’s media is often lauded as being among the freest...
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China’s Godfather?
A different world: China’s president Xi Jinping. Felipe Dana/ AP Photo Chinese writer Yu Jie knows how to irritate important people. In 2010, during a period when the Chinese premier of the time, Wen...
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The gutting of Radio Australia
“Too few people in Australia understand how important Radio Australia has been in the Pacific,” says the ABC’s Sean Dorney, shown here after he was expelled from Fiji for his reporting of the crisis...
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Israel vs Hamas: the flawed assumptions
A Palestinian girl taking shelter in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, on 30 July. Mohammed Saber/ EPA By any conventional measure, Hamas should now be more than ready to agree to a ceasefire in its...
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Not over till they’re over: the countdown to the US midterm elections
Follow the money: Michelle Nunn speaks to her supporters after she won the Democratic Party Senate primary in Georgia in May. Since then, she and her opponent have spent huge sums on advertising....
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