Inside Story

International A struggle for India’s soul Robin Jeffrey 12 March 2019 Despite the border flare-up, the national election result seems likely to be tighter this time International Where does North Korea go from here? Justin Hastings 5 March 2019 The Hanoi summit might have failed to reach an agreement, but it highlighted the dilemmas facing the regime International China’s ghosts Hamish McDonald 5 March 2019 A series of anniversaries is making the leadership anxious and exposing the country’s weaknesses International Exclusion, prosecution or restricted re-entry? Jessie Blackbourn 26 February 2019 The controversy over Shamima Begum’s bid to return to Britain from Syria has parallels in Australia

International In Timor-Leste, an eventful year ends in tension Michael Leach 14 December 2018 The country’s political scene is being shaped by co-habitation between an AMP government and a Fretilin president International The blue wave’s female tinge Lesley Russell 14 December 2018 It’s being called the new “Year of the Woman,” and it augurs badly for the Republicans International Not the new cold war Graeme Dobell 27 November 2018 “Hot peace” is a much better label for this period of competing powers within a single system International #MeToo’s subcontinental shockwaves Kerry Brown & Marya Shakil 22 November 2018 In a tale of two countries, India is reacting but China is largely unmoved

International Xi Jinping’s war on the Uighurs Louisa Lim 25 September 2018 Uighur families in Adelaide are watching the crackdown in China’s Xinjiang province with intensifying alarm International Indonesian democracy’s gathering clouds Tim Colebatch 21 September 2018 On balance, it’s been a good first term for the Indonesian president. But is he putting the gains in danger? International Bolivia’s Neo-Andean visionary Antonio Castillo 12 September 2018 Fuelled by new arrivals in the Bolivian capital, Indigenous architecture is on the rise in El Alto International How America’s War on Poverty became a war on the poor Lesley Russell 17 August 2018 The Trump administration says the decades-old effort to reduce poverty is over, for all the wrong reasons