Posted by Natasha Vary

A recent mass stabbing attack on bystanders at a train station in China has again focused attention on the troubled Xinjiang province. Read the full article by Griffith Asia Institute’s Dr Michael Clarke in Asian Currents April 2014 edition (page 22).

The Gladstone Observer, through a report by Dr Vlado Vivoda, discusses how the standoff between Russia and Ukraine exacerbates Europe’s vulnerability caused by its reliance on Russian gas. To read the report, click here.

Despite terrorism, drink spiking and a reversal in the moral high ground, Australians can’t resist Bali. Colin Brown, Adjunct Professor for the Griffith Asia Institute, discusses the changing relationship between Australia and Indonesia since Schapelle Corby’s imprisonment in 2004. Read the full article ‘Indonesia changed while Corby was behind bars’ in The Age (published Monday […]

Griffith Asia Institute Director, Professor Andrew O’Neil, discusses the occasionally turbulent history between Australia and China and how it has shaped current political decision making. Read the article at The China Policy Institute blog for the University of Nottingham.

Griffith Asia Institute Director, Professor Andrew O’Neil, is quoted in an article in The Australian responding to recent comments on the Abbott Government’s China policy. You can read the article by Rowan Callick at The Australian.

Griffith Asia Institute were pleased to host a roundtable meeting on Friday 24 January with Dr. Su Hao, Professor at the Department of Diplomacy, China Foreign Affairs University. Dr. Hao is currently a visiting professor at Bond University.

The arrest and detention of the outspoken Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti (pictured) in Beijing on 15 January demonstrates that the Chinese Communist Party has returned to an uncompromising, hard line approach toward Xinjiang and the Uyghur. Tohti, an economist at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, was reportedly arrested after 30 police raided his […]