Given the state of US-China relations, their statement on climate is a big development. There’s a long way to go, especially whether China can do more on methane and coal. But the two biggest emitters now have a framework for cooperation, something we’ve been working on at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

Under President Xi Jinping, China has shown a growing willingness to act outside the accepted geopolitical, economic and even diplomatic global framework and practices.

Optimiste. L’ancien Premier ministre australien est l’un des grands experts de la Chine contemporaine. Il appelle à se montrer ferme sans rompre avec Pékin.

There is great danger in the view that only serving politicians have a place in our public square

Cam Wilson and Sami Shah speak to former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on meeting Rupert, the need for a Murdoch Royal Commission & watching Succession.

Kevin Rudd joins to talk about COP26, Australian politics and Evergrande.

Kevin Rudd weighs in on how Australia can mend its relationship with France, following a blotched $90 billion submarine deal that sent the two countries into a major diplomatic rift.

Beijing’s policy options are threefold: bankrupting Evergrande to send a message to the rest of the sector; propping it up because it is simply “too big to fail”; or facilitating an orderly distribution of assets.

I have come to the conclusion that church and state can have different positions and practices on the question of same sex marriage. I believe the secular Australian state should be able to recognise same sex marriage.

From time to time in human history there occur events of a truly seismic significance, events that mark a turning point between one epoch and the next, when one orthodoxy is overthrown and another takes its place.

Above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey are arrayed ten great statues of the martyrs of the Church. Not Peter, Stephen, James or the familiar names of the saints sacrificed during the great Roman persecution before Constantine’s conversion. No: these are martyrs of the twentieth century, when the age of faith was, in the minds of many in the West, already tottering towards its collapse.