The shifting sands of Asia

THERE is a specific kind of quiet that settles over a capital city when its ruling elite begins to realise that the ground beneath their feet is moving. In Canberra and Melbourne, among the scholars and officials who manage the delicate machinery of the Australian state’s foreign policy, that quiet is palpable. There is the hushed intensity of a room where the old maps no longer match the terrain. I am currently here meeting those tasked with studying and navigating these waters, and the sens...

By none@none.com (Khurram Husain)