Strategic Challenges

Rudd: Asia Needs 'Pax Pacifica' as China Rises

Failure to do so could have “profound consequences for the world at large,” says Australian Foreign Minister at Asia Society.

Complete Text of Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd's Speech at Asia Society New York

The former Prime Minister's speech was entitled 'The Prospects for Peace in the Pacific: The Future of the Expanded East Asia Summit.'

Excerpt: Ahmed Rashid's 'Pakistan on the Brink'

Leading Pakstani journalist Ahmed Rashid lays out America’s options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years.

Stephen Smith discusses the need for cooperation with China and India

Stephen Smith Stresses Cooperation with Rising Asian Nations

Australian Defence Minister addresses shared maritime security challenges, the rise of China and Australia's recent decision to allow uranium sales to India.

Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon Julia Gillard MP

Australia Turns Focus Toward Asia

Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the commissioning of a white paper on Australia in the Asian Century at and Asia Society luncheon.

Australia PM Julia Gillard on Australia's Role in Asia

Full text of speech Gillard delivered Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Asia Society in Melbourne, Australia.

Bangladesh's Economic Progress and Potential

Full Text of speech by Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Delivered September 20, 2011 at Asia Society in New York.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New York on Sept. 20, 2011

Bangladesh on the Rise

Citing impressive economic advances, Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina hopes to position her country as a hub linking South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China.