Opinions and essays

Our regular guests contribute commentaries, analyses and opinion pieces on various topics of interest related to New Zealand's role and engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. If you would like to suggest a topic or send your response to any of the articles below, contact Dr Andrew Butcher at abutcher@asianz.org.nz

• Australia's real China problem - Dr Robert Ayson is currently Senior Fellow in the Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. In this article he discusses Australia's increasing fraught relationship with China.

• US Marines from Okinawa to Guam: Strategic Implications for Japan -  The author, Prof Matake Kamiya, currently Professor of International Relations at the National Defense Academy of Japan and formerly an Asia 2000 Foundation Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses recent relocations of the US military in the Pacific region.

• Rudd's 'China literacy', thirteen years on - Charles Prestidge-King of the Australia National University assesses the Australian Prime Minister's long-standing desire to improve his country's cultural and linguistic literacy of Asia in general, and China in particular.

• New Zealand's place in Asia - Asia:NZ Executive Director Dr Richard Grant takes stock of the changing geo-political climate and discusses why its relationship with Asia is becoming the determinant of New Zealand's long-term security and economic growth.

• China: What responsibilities come with rising power status? In this article, Professor Yongjin Zhang, examines the different perceptions of the European Union, the United States and China itself in relation to the rising Asian power’s potential new role and responsibility in the global system.

• Japan-Australia relations: The multi and the mini - Dr Malcolm Cook of Australia's Lowy Institute on the emergence of new 'mini-lateral' groupings such as the G20

• Responding to non-traditional security challenges in Asia - Mely Caballero-Anthony is Associate Professor at the RSIS in Singapore

• Verdict India 2009: Congress Rises with its Heir - Sourabh Gupta, Samuels International Associates, Washington DC

• Architectural momentum in Asia and the Pacific - Hadi Soesastro, CSIS, Jakarta (link to external site)

• Developing regional security architecture in the Asia-Pacific - Dr Thomas S. Wilkins, Lecturer at the Center for International Security Studies,  University of Sydney

• The 8th Shangri-La Dialogue - Dr Mark G. Rolls

• Rudd in Singapore: the Asia-Pacific Community idea - Professor Gary Hawke

• Australian defence in the Asia-Pacific century - Professor Hugh White, Lowy Institute of International Policy, Sydney

• Lowy Institute urges major overhaul of Australia's diplomatic network - Alex Duchen, Lowy Institute of International Policy, Sydney

• US foreign policy and Asia - Terence O'Brien, Centre for Strategic Studies

• Asia and the current crisis - Professor Gary Hawke, Senior Fellow New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, former Chair of the New Zealand Committee of PECC

• Rethinking immigration - Paul Spoonley, Massey University

• Fears and hopes, doused - Dr Malcolm Cook, Lowy Institute