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The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
Highlights – Minister Bowen's BYONCE for Data Centres The federal government and Energy Minister Chris Bowen have committed that data centre development approvals will be contingent on BYONCE – Bring Your Own New Clean Energy. The signs are promising –The Energy reports a consultation paper has been released by the federal government that confirmed that the Clean Energy Regulator would use the Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGO) scheme to ensure that data centres contract for renewable energy that is genuinely additional to existing sources and aligned with BYONCE. Highlights – China Generation 8MCY2026 China's total power generation growth slowed to 0.9% yoy in August 2026, while zero-emissions generation grew 8.8% yoy, more than offsetting demand growth and driving a second consecutive monthly decline in fossil fuel generation. Coal generation fell by 4.3% yoy. Solar remained the #2 generation source at 13.1% YTD, ahead of wind at 10.8%, while zero-emissions sources supplied 42.3% of total generation. 8 months into 2026, China's national emissions continue to plateau, six years ahead of 2030. Lowlights – BHP's FY2026 Annual Report confirms their shameful climate walkback In May, Angus Grigg & Maryanne at ABC 4Corners and The Guardian's Christopher Knaus and Adam Morton gave us the big reveal – BHP was locking in diesel fossil fuel use in its Pilbara operations and effectively reversing its commitments on emissions reduction while telling the public it was going green. This highlighted the shameful climate science denialism of the BHP board under Chair Ross McEwan and new CEO Brandon Craig. Four months later, last week we got the big middle finger with confirmation that BHP's emissions in 2035 will be a reported 33% higher than previously expected. The board had listened to its shareholders and the climate scientists and decided to totally ignore them. CEF continues to lobby the government to turn the $3bn annual subsidy to imported diesel for the mining sector into a TTI, a tailwind to energy security and decarbonisation. Lowlights – Sanjeev Gupta is taking the piss, still Reading veteran ABC journalist Paul Barry's insightful book "The Big Steal" reveals the massive ongoing global fraud being perpetrated by international master scammer, who literally bled Whyalla Steelworks dry. I continue to highlight this because Gupta somehow still controls InfraBuild, a firm employing 4,500 Australians and is in all likelihood according to Barry's book trading while insolvent for potentially a decade, yet ASIC is dead silent on this. ASIC asleep at the wheel, again. Main Story – CEF's Safeguard Mechanism Submission Matt Pollard led on CEF's submission to the DCCEEW consultation on the 2026 Safeguard Mechanism Review — an review required to strengthen the Federal Government's flagship policy for driving emissions reduction and fossil fuel abatement across industry. CEF's submission is grounded in enhancing the existing policy framework and improving the effectiveness of the integrated structure of the Safeguard Mechanism, the ACCU Scheme, and the Nature Repair Market. This is key to building investor confidence in deploying capital into on-site abatement for industrial facilities under the Safeguard, and patient capital into nature-based solutions that deliver critical co-benefits in nature repair. CEF sees it as imperative that industry, regulators, investors, landholders and the academic community focus on enhancing the standard and integrity of this structure, and not on abandoning this model. Markets work best with a price signal, and 'polluter pays' is a longstanding core market principle Australia needs to enhance, not discard. Australia has an incredible opportunity to harness the scalability of compliance carbon markets to build a world-scale structure to sustainably generate significant positive outcomes that restore, conserve, and protect Australia's natural capital, and simultaneously create the critical investment signal of a rising price on carbon, supported by fundamentals that will drive such market conditions, catalysing large-scale capital deployment into on-site abatement in industry. Australia's opportunity, and challenge, is in forming market conditions, improving investor confidence and market participation, and ensuring system integrity and stakeholder buy-in. This is key to ensuring the integration of the ACCU Scheme with the Safeguard Mechanism to incentivise high-quality abatement and investment into nature-based solutions while simultaneously not limiting or hindering onsite emissions reductions at industrial facilities. CEF's submission was focussed upon broadening and deepening the policy settings of the Safeguard Mechanism, recommending: Establishing a progressively rising real price floor in the Safeguard Mechanism through purchasing option or reverse auction structures in the ACCU market to increase demand when secondary market prices fall below a rising floor. The Federal Government introduce a significantly greater carbon price liability for entities that exceed their Safeguard baselines by >30% through the purchasing of credits from the Government at a significant market premium over the purchase price paid through price floor auctions. The Federal Government introduce an Australian CBAM for product variables currently most associated with trade-exposed, baseline adjustment (TEBA) concessions to level the playing field for trade-exposed commodities without hindering the decarbonisation of industry and limiting new, low-emissions manufacturing and value-adding capacity to compete in the domestic market with emissions-intensive counterparts. The Safeguard Mechanism be expanded more effectively to the electricity sector to accelerate the phase out of fossil fuel-based generation and support the deployment of critical renewable energy generation, ideally aligned to ensure coal plant closure timetable certainty. The Safeguard Mechanism floor be lowered to 75,000tpa as an efficient next step extension. The Federal Government investigate the potential introduction of Carbon Contracts-for-Difference (CCfD) to accelerate investment into decarbonisation capex for captured facilities — where the current cost of compliance for Safeguard is met from ACCUs and SMCs as the lowest-cost abatement method. Our recommendations are centred upon absorbing lessons from international best practice and the development of carbon pricing mechanisms across the world, and in particular, our key trading partners in Northeast Asia. Link to CEF submission What's coming up? 13-14 October 2026 Annual Industrial Net Zero Summit in Sydney 25-29th October 2026 Bunbury in SW WA I'll be speaking at the Innovative Industries of the Future 2026 Regional Conference
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
Dr. Victor Cha, Dr. Bonny Lin, and Mr. Sydney Seiler discussed recent developments in China–North Korea relations and the broader implications of the Trump–Xi summit for regional security and geopolitics in Northeast Asia.
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo's Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip (University of Hawaii Press, 2026) comprises translations of poems, tales, letters, epitaphs, and funeral orations by Yi Kyubo (1168–1241), the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Dr. Breuker's translation and introduction humanize this celebrated poet, whom he reveals as not only a great writer, but a doggedly ambitious man with a reputation for drinking, a son weighed down by his family's expectations of greatness, and a father who grieved for his dead son. Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated” is an excellent book for anyone who wants to better understand the famed writer and the political, social, and literary context of the Koryŏ dynasty.Remco Breuker is a Professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University. His research spans medieval and modern Korea and Northeast Asia, with a particular focus on historiography, identity formation, borders, state formation, and the uses of history in contemporary politics.He has translated Korean literature into Dutch, and in 2025 he both contributed to and co-edited an English translation of the Samguk Yusa, an important Korean historical text.Buy Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: hereDr. Breuker's LinkedIn: hereDr. Breuker's Bluesky: hereAbout the host: Leslie Hickman is an Anthropology graduate student at Emory University. Shehas an MA in Korean Studies and a KO-EN translation certificate from the Literature TranslationInstitute of Korea. You can contact her at leslie.hickman@emory.edu Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo's Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip (University of Hawaii Press, 2026) comprises translations of poems, tales, letters, epitaphs, and funeral orations by Yi Kyubo (1168–1241), the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Dr. Breuker's translation and introduction humanize this celebrated poet, whom he reveals as not only a great writer, but a doggedly ambitious man with a reputation for drinking, a son weighed down by his family's expectations of greatness, and a father who grieved for his dead son. Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated” is an excellent book for anyone who wants to better understand the famed writer and the political, social, and literary context of the Koryŏ dynasty.Remco Breuker is a Professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University. His research spans medieval and modern Korea and Northeast Asia, with a particular focus on historiography, identity formation, borders, state formation, and the uses of history in contemporary politics.He has translated Korean literature into Dutch, and in 2025 he both contributed to and co-edited an English translation of the Samguk Yusa, an important Korean historical text.Buy Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: hereDr. Breuker's LinkedIn: hereDr. Breuker's Bluesky: hereAbout the host: Leslie Hickman is an Anthropology graduate student at Emory University. Shehas an MA in Korean Studies and a KO-EN translation certificate from the Literature TranslationInstitute of Korea. You can contact her at leslie.hickman@emory.edu Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo's Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip (University of Hawaii Press, 2026) comprises translations of poems, tales, letters, epitaphs, and funeral orations by Yi Kyubo (1168–1241), the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Dr. Breuker's translation and introduction humanize this celebrated poet, whom he reveals as not only a great writer, but a doggedly ambitious man with a reputation for drinking, a son weighed down by his family's expectations of greatness, and a father who grieved for his dead son. Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated” is an excellent book for anyone who wants to better understand the famed writer and the political, social, and literary context of the Koryŏ dynasty.Remco Breuker is a Professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University. His research spans medieval and modern Korea and Northeast Asia, with a particular focus on historiography, identity formation, borders, state formation, and the uses of history in contemporary politics.He has translated Korean literature into Dutch, and in 2025 he both contributed to and co-edited an English translation of the Samguk Yusa, an important Korean historical text.Buy Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated: hereDr. Breuker's LinkedIn: hereDr. Breuker's Bluesky: hereAbout the host: Leslie Hickman is an Anthropology graduate student at Emory University. Shehas an MA in Korean Studies and a KO-EN translation certificate from the Literature TranslationInstitute of Korea. You can contact her at leslie.hickman@emory.edu Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
This week on Sinica, I'm joined once again by Ryan Hass, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, former NSC director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and co-host of the Beijing Brief podcast. Ryan has just published two pieces that couldn't be better timed: a long essay in China Leadership Monitor, “China's Great Power Vision Comes into Focus,” which argues that the 2020s may be remembered as the decade Beijing finally laid its cards on the table — and a shorter Brookings piece, “Why Beijing Isn't Taking the Bait with Trump,” on why Xi Jinping has answered an unusually accommodating American president with a poker face, and what that means for Xi's state visit to Washington later this month.We start with the perennial question — what does China want? — and Ryan's own two-decade journey with it, from chasing a supposed secret strategy in Zhongnanhai as a junior political officer to concluding that Beijing's vision is now legible and consistent: an international political order stripped of its liberal core and rebuilt around sovereign equality and the “global majority.” We talk about “American decline” and “strategic stalemate” in Chinese discourse, the tension between China's pitch to the developing world and its export juggernaut, the Middle East and Northeast Asia as test cases, and the central riddle of Ryan's essay: why a country so willing to articulate its ambitions has been so unwilling to pay for them. Then we turn to the summit — constructive strategic stability, escalation dominance, and what will and won't be on the table when Xi comes to Washington.03:11 – The “What does China want?” genre — and why Ryan concluded there is no secret plan locked in a Zhongnanhai vault06:10 – From participant to architect: what actually changed, and whether Beijing is revisionist or, as I cheekily put it, restorationist09:12 – “American decline” (美国衰落) and “strategic stalemate” (战略相持): reading Beijing's rhetorical restraint and the Maoist echo14:34 – Champion of the global majority, or the world's factory? The $6 toaster problem and the credibility gap on Ukraine and Japan19:36 – The Middle East as a test case: economic enabler, not security patron — and the good-faith maximalist rebuttal24:38 – Northeast Asia: why Beijing keeps generating the very encirclement it fears26:59 – Rhetoric without resources: flat foreign aid, shrinking BRI lending, and the SCO as China's proving ground32:28 – The Pew swing that hasn't materialized, and why Biden may have been America's last restorationist president36:01 – Why Beijing isn't taking the bait: Xi's poker face, “constructive strategic stability,” and the G2 refusal41:55 – Confident abroad, anxious at home: the purges, the memory of 2020, economic escalation dominance, and a viewer's guide to the September summitPaying It ForwardRyan flags two women doing important work in China studies, both with books out this fall: Emily Matson of Georgetown, whose China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II examines how the start date of China's war with Japan was moved from 1937 back to 1931; and Shuxian Luo of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, whose Simmering Seas: Escalation and De-escalation in China's Maritime Disputes is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in October. He also gives a shout-out to the engines of the Brookings China Center, research assistants Allie Matthias and Joyce Yang.RecommendationsRyan: Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, which he's late to but found poignant for its eerie echoes of today's battlefields — and Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's Regime Change, an inside account of the second Trump administration that he calls harrowing but essential for anyone trying to anticipate the president's behavior. (He also finally read The Three-Body Problem, and now knows his sophons from his Trisolarans.)Kaiser: Robert Harris's Agrippa, published September 1 — the memoir of Marcus Agrippa, the general who won Octavian's battles and built half of Augustan Rome, and a story about the pivot from republic to empire that feels uncomfortably relevant. And if you've read Tuchman, do read Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Not my official recommendation, but astonishing.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
The latest news from home and abroad, with a close eye on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula in particular
September 1, 2026 - Join The Korea Society for a rapid reaction discussion exploring recent shifts in Korean Peninsula security and diplomacy. Featuring Ambassador (ret.) Joseph Yun, this program will examine President Donald Trump's decision to modify joint military exercises with South Korea and his revelation of ongoing communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The program is moderated by policy director Jonathan Corrado. The session will draw lessons from past negotiation cycles, assess how the geopolitical climate has evolved since Trump and Kim last met, dissect the implications of North Korea's new "hostile states" policy, examine South Korea's shifting role as a diplomatic pacemaker, and explore how the surrounding geopolitical situation—such as the expanding Russia-North Korea alliance and The Iran War—is reshaping dynamics in Northeast Asia. Ambassador Yun will also share insights from his multi-decade career managing Korean Peninsula relations. This program is made possible by the generous support of our individual and corporate members and the Korea Foundation. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/geopolitical-affairs/rapid-reaction-an-olive-branch-for-north-korea/
Ocean carrier reliability just hit its lowest point since before the current alliance structure took effect, with typhoon-driven port congestion in Asia dragging Shanghai down to just 21% on-time arrivals in July.In this episode, Lars Jensen and Caroline Weaver cover:Global vessel reliability at 56% for July, and the 40 percentage point gap separating Gemini's 89.5% from Premier Alliance's sub-50% performanceNYFI's Asia-US sub-lane data, including Northeast Asia's role as a swing capacity market and a fresh split between US East and West Coast ratesSuez Canal normalization now at 19% of Asia-Europe capacity, and what it means for demand growth if that reaches 50%A reopened split between 20-foot and 40-foot rates on the Trans-Atlantic Westbound lane, plus Q4 bunker and emissions surcharge changes
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