Asia with its new-found affluence as the world’s lowest-cost and highest-quality manufacturer, is devoting much of its windfall profits to arms. Growth and emerging energy shortages are giving birth to dangerous new tensions. In a great “arc of crisis” stretching from Taiwan to China and from South Korea to Japan, defence spending is significantly higher than that of post-Soviet Russia. Asian nations, including India, are rapidly developing new long-range strike capacities as legions...

The Asian migration controversy of the 1980s in Australia was reminiscent of that a century earlier. However, as this study of the “new” Asian migration of the 1980s illustrates, the circumstances and characteristics have been vastly different. This study places Asian immigration in a broader international context in which the emigration to Australia is part of a wider pattern of population movements with diplomatic ramifications and economic implications for both Australia and the emigrants’...