Publications by Linda Jakobson

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  • Commentary

    Foreign policy will stay on China's backburner

    Foreign policy is not likely to be elevated to a key priority of China's new leadership, writes Linda Jakobson, East Asia Program Director at The Lowy Institute, on CNN's Global Public Square.
    29 November 2012
    Commentary
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • China's Arctic aspirations

    China wants to be part of the Arctic order and, as a rising power, emphasizes the global implications of the Arctic’s melting ice. Although several non-Chinese observers have described China’s actions in the Arctic as ‘more assertive’, and the Chinese Government has taken steps to protect what it...
    26 November 2012
    Lowy Institute Papers and Reports
    By
    Linda Jakobson
  • Commentary

    New leaders unlikely to be bold reformers

    In an opinion piece in The Australian, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, writes that those who want to see China's leaders initiate bold reforms will probably be disappointed in the 'old' and 'conservative' Politburo Standing Committee.
    16 November 2012
    Commentary
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • China's new leadership: A victory for Jiang Zemin and the princelings

    Looking at the line-up of China's new leaders , two things stand out. First, Jiang Zemin, the 86-year old who was China's leader from 1989-2002, ought to be a very content man. Of the new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), three owe political allegiance to Jiang, who almost literally...
    15 November 2012
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • Chinese politics remains a men's club

    While we wait for the announcement later today of who will govern China over the next five to ten years, it is worth digesting a few facts about China's new group of 205 most influential citizens . These are the 195 men and 10 women selected on Wednesday as members of the new Central Committee of...
    15 November 2012
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • An absurd defence of communist rule

    Daniel Bell, a Canadian who teaches political science at Tsinghua, one of China's most prestigious universities, has of late been rattling foreign China watchers with his commentary about alternatives to democracy in China. Bell claims that because democracy is flawed as an ideal, China's political...
    13 November 2012
    By
    Linda Jakobson
  • Commentary

    Australia's Pollyanna Asia Policy

    In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal Asia, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, writes that the Asia White Paper's underlying assumption is that the region will be devoid of major upheaval.
    2 November 2012
    Commentary
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • The dangers of the Chinese media

    Yesterday I saw myself misquoted by Xinhua , China's official news agency: On the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, China, as the host of the Six-Party Talks, has functioned as more than just a coordinator. Linda Jacobson, East Asia program director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in...
    3 October 2012
    By
    Linda Jakobson
  • Commentary

    These anti-Japan protests are different

    In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal Asia, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, compares the recent anti-Japanese protests to similar anti-Japanese sentiment which swept across China seven years ago. This time around, the consequences could be much more serious.
    19 September 2012
    Commentary
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • Xi Jinping: A debacle, not a crisis

    The Chinese Government continues to keep its citizens and the rest of the world in the dark about the health and whereabouts of China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, who has not been seen in public since 1 September. Yet, wild rumours about Xi's possible fate seem to be overblown. If Xi was...
    12 September 2012
    By
    Linda Jakobson

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