Roger Garside predicts that China’s strongman leader Xi Jinping will soon be removed from office in an internal Communist Party coup. While highly debatable, Garside’s new book highlights the potential for and costs of political instability in China.

Conflict along the Sino-Indian border has brought home for India the reality of dealing with a powerful neighbor. An unintended side effect has been the course correction in Indian public discourse of the erstwhile neglect of Chinese politics and foreign policy.

Greg Dodds’ alternative account of the Vietnam War is a captivating memoire. It is detailed, personal, and provides on-the-ground context to key moments in Vietnam.

The rise of China as a revisionist power has also marked a return of geopolitics and great power politics in 21st century Asia. Active Indian participation is needed in the unfolding of Asian geopolitics.

Participation in global value chains has been the key factor driving China’s exports and economic development, according to Professor Yuqing Xing. But America’s trade and tech war with China, along with COVID-19, are threatening the global-value-chain development model.

Yes, James Callaghan was an underrated British prime minister. Hickson and Miles present a compelling psychological portrait of a fervent political operator who rose from humble circumstances to the highest office in the land.

Afghanistan’s major regional external stakeholders, Pakistan, China, Russia and Iran, will play a major role in that country’s future. But the five former-Soviet Central Asian republics (CARs or "stans")  are also strategically important and must be factored into the stakeholder mix.

Peter Hartcher’s new book provides a forensic analysis of the deterioration in the Australia-China relationship, with insights and insider information.  He argues that Australia needs to toughen its protections against China.

The Tiananmen Square Massacre offered a violent glimpse into the nature of Chinese politics under a communist government. In his new book, Indian diplomat Vijay Gokhale revisits his first-hand experience of the 1989 event.   

Obama’s account of his movement from lower reaches of Democrat politics to the White House is compelling reading. It is well written, and best digested slowly, chapter by chapter, anecdote by anecdote.