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Melbourne Asia Review is an initiative of the Asia Institute. Any inquiries about Melbourne Asia Review should be directed to the Managing Editor, Cathy Harper.

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East Asia’s low spending model on welfare is no longer fit for tackling growing inequality

  • Dr Gyu-Jin Hwang,

Despite their economic ‘miracles’ most East Asian nations have fairly low levels of spending on welfare.

Fortress North Korea and the battle against COVID-19

  • Jasmine Barrett,

The full extent of the impact COVID-19 and related public health measures are having on local populations in the DPRK remains opaque.

South Korea’s geopolitics: Challenges and strategic choices

  • Professor Moon Chung-in & Sung-won Lee,

It will not be easy for the Yoon government to totally ignore the geopolitical and geoeconomic threats coming from China.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons have not been a ‘game changer’

  • Dr Denny Roy,

Pyongyang is a regional irritant and international outlaw government, but it hasn’t become more aggressive since becoming a de facto nuclear weapons state.

INTRODUCTION: The geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific

  • Professor Timothy J. Lynch and Professor Robert S. Ross,

The war in Ukraine has thrown into relief the prospects for peace in the Indo-Pacific.