Publications by Linda Jakobson

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  • Obama-Xi: Not too hot, not too cold

    Watch video Many readers know the lines from the 19th century fable about Goldilocks and the three bears: 'not too hot, not too cold, just right.' Those lines come to mind when reading the mostly positive initial reports of the informal summit between presidents Obama and Xi. These two leaders...
    10 June 2013
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • Why has China's president forsaken protocol?

    Much has been made of the fact that the Chinese and American presidents are meeting in informal surroundings on Friday at the Sunnylands retreat, the former estate of Walter Annenberg in Rancho Mirage, California. Protocol will be kept to a minimum and the presidents will meet in short-sleeved...
    6 June 2013
    By
    Linda Jakobson
  • Commentary

    Beijing’s Arctic goals are not to be feared

    In an opinion piece in the Financial Times, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, writes that China’s motives in the Arctic are perfectly comprehensible; they concern climate change, trade and resources.
    20 May 2013
    Commentary
    By
    Linda Jakobson
  • Commentary

    China won't be frozen out of Arctic

    In an opinion piece about China and the Arctic for the Global Times (in English and Chinese), Lowy Institute East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson argues that Chinese policymakers will have to grapple with the jitters that China as a rising power evokes.
    17 May 2013
    Commentary
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • China and the Arctic: What's the fuss?

    For a few hours this evening Australian time, media outlets from around the world will zoom in on Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost city of 18,000 inhabitants and host to the Arctic Council ministerial meeting. The foreign ministers of the eight Arctic Council member states – Canada, Denmark, Finland,...
    15 May 2013
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • Australia-China strategic partnership: Two years of fits and starts

    The strategic partnership between Australia and China announced yesterday has been a long 24 months in the making. As with any initiative requiring the approval of senior Chinese leaders, there have been fits and starts along the way. Less than a month ago, when the countdown to Julia Gillard's...
    10 April 2013
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • Breakthrough: Australia and China set to announce strategic partnership

    Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard achieved a diplomatic breakthrough in Beijing today when she and China's Premier Li Keqiang agreed that Australia and China will forge a strategic partnership. There will be an official announcement from Gillard and Premier Li in the next few hours...
    9 April 2013
    By
    Linda Jakobson
  • Commentary

    How involved is Xi Jinping in the Diaoyu crisis?

    Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, published an article in The Diplomat on the tense stand-off between Beijing and Tokyo over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, available here .
    8 February 2013
    Commentary
    By
    Linda Jakobson
  • Xi Jinping

    China's foreign policy dilemma

    In this Analysis, Linda Jakobson writes foreign policy will not be a top priority of China's new leaders because they must focus on immense domestic problems. Therefore Chinese foreign policy can be expected to be reactive. This may have serious consequences because of the potentially explosive...
    5 February 2013
    Analysis
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • Northeast Asia turns its attention to the Arctic

    In an analysis brief for the National Bureau of Asian Research, Lowy Institute East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson writes that China, Japan, and South Korea are all vigorously lobbying to become a permanent observer on the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum established in 1996. Until...
    18 December 2012
    Analysis
    By
    Linda Jakobson

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