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Greg Sheridan
Greg Sheridan is the Foreign Editor of the Australian.Subscribe to Greg Sheridan RSS Article Feed.
Recent Articles
- China Sends a Message, Australia Trembles - March 25, 2010
- STERN Hu's confession in a Chinese court to allegations of bribery has exactly the same moral and forensic credibility as the confessions captured journalists make in...
- Australia Mustn't Follow Washington's Lead on Israel - March 17, 2010
- The use of Australian passports by the agents, presumably from Mossad, who assassinated a Hamas terrorist in Dubai led to unusually strong criticism of Israel from Kevin...
- U.S. and China Locked in Complicated Dance - February 27, 2010
- Nothing so vexes strategic analysts, not only in Asia but all over the world, as the confusing nature of the relationship between the US and China. The US is having a...
- Australia Confronts its Terror Threat - The Australian - February 25, 2010
- THE government's white paper on counter-terrorism is a landmark, a watershed, a signal moment: choose your metaphor. What I mean to say is, it's a very important...
- Australia Must Do More in Afghanistan - The Australian - February 20, 2010
- IN the months leading up to President Barack Obama's pivotal West Point speech last December, in which he announced a troop surge of 30,000 US forces for Afghanistan,...
- Tehran on Path to Our Destruction - February 18, 2010
- Stand by for some bad news. No, I mean really bad news. The world is not going to apply crippling sanctions to Iran. Even if it did, Iran would not be deterred from...
- France's Burka Ban a Boost for Equality - The Australian - February 3, 2010
- Of all the countries of Europe, France has the best chance of coping successfully with large-scale Muslim immigration. That's not to say it's a very big chance, but it...
- Kevin Rudd has Friend in Clinton - January 14, 2010
- Hillary Clinton has done Kevin Rudd the biggest favour she could possibly do for him on the eve of her visit to Australia for the 25th-anniversary AUSMIN talks in...
- World Needs U.S. Leadership - December 26, 2009
- This was the year the multilateral system, such as it is, broke down. Definitively. The Copenhagen climate fiasco was bad news if you think the planet is warming and...
- Don't Look to Beijing for Global Leadership - December 23, 2009
- The Copenhagen debacle has some enduring lessons about the shape today of global power. One is that the Chinese government, from every point of view, is an extremely...
- Kevin Rudd Brings Order to Asia - December 10, 2009
- It was a glittering occasion at the Prime Minister's residence at Kirribilli last Friday night. Kevin Rudd entertained about 100 of the most influential foreign policy...
- Kevin Rudd Finds His Foreign Policy - November 13, 2009
- Listen to US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell last week describing Kevin Rudd's relationship with Barack Obama. "We're very closely co-ordinating on climate...
- Waiting for Obama to Get Down to War - October 30, 2009
- This past week has seen appalling terrorist violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The bombings in Pakistan were designed in part to coincide with the visit of US...
- Britain Wrestles With War's Human Toll - September 25, 2009
- For Britain, the debate on Afghanistan is in some ways even more agonising than the debate over Iraq was. It is much more intense than the analogous debate in Australia,...
- Women Don't Belong in Combat - September 16, 2009
- The suggestion that women should be able to join all front-line combat units of the Australian Army, including the Special Air Service, infantry rifle companies and the...
- Kevin Rudd's Ambitious Agenda for Australia & Asia - September 11, 2009
- Kevin Rudd is determined to create his Asia Pacific Community. And you know what? He just might succeed. This initiative of the Prime Minister's has been mocked by some...
- Libya Stinks, But Hold Your Nose - September 9, 2009
- There can be few more odious ruling families in the world than the Gaddafis of Libya. The decision by the Scottish government to release on compassionate grounds one...
- Hatoyama Poised for Global Struggle - September 5, 2009
- Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's new Prime Minister, may yet transform northeast Asian security. And he may become Kevin Rudd's new best friend. He has had his first phone call...
- A Pivotal Moment in Japan's History - September 2, 2009
- YUKIO Hatoyama's victory is a pivotal point in modern Japanese history. Hatoyama and his Democratic Party of Japan promise to break down the influence of Japan's...
- Australia's Liberals Need Foreign Policy Lesson - August 30, 2009
- WHAT is the purpose of a political party? Is it in any sense a social movement, a movement of ideas and ideals? Let me give you some context. One of the great...
- Get Used to the Name Yukio Hatoyama in Japan - August 27, 2009
- Japan will hold a national election on Sunday. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Taro Aso will be turfed out and replaced by the Democratic Party of Japan, led by...
- Speak Truth to China's Power - August 21, 2009
- CHINA today is Janus-faced. In the contradiction of the two faces of China sits the present Australian crisis in our relations with the Middle Kingdom. China...
- We Ignore Afghanistan at Our Strategic Peril - August 19, 2009
- In many ways, it is a tale of two armies. Perhaps the most important mistake the Bush administration made after the invasion of Iraq was to disband that nation's army. A...
- U.S. Finds Burma Difficult to Tackle - August 15, 2009
- THE sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi to a further 18 months' house arrest in Burma has angered the world and provoked condemnation from all Western nations. However, the...
- Uighurs Must Fight for Rights within China - August 12, 2009
- It may turn out to be seven days that shook the world, or at least seven days that shook Chinese politics, perhaps permanently. The week-long visit to Australia by...
- The West Must Engage Burma - August 5, 2009
- Burma is a bugger of a problem. And it's getting worse. Last weekend, Fairfax papers reported testimony from two Burmese defectors which suggested Rangoon had progressed...
- Terror Won't Ruin the Indonesia Upstart - July 26, 2009
- Neither Indonesia's economic growth nor its political stability is likely to be knocked off course by the tragic terrorist bombings in Jakarta a week ago. This is the...
- Terror Can't Sink Indonesia - July 24, 2009
- Neither Indonesia's economic growth nor its political stability is likely to be knocked off course by the tragic terrorist bombings in Jakarta a week ago. This is...
- A Savage Blow to Indonesia's Society - July 18, 2009
- THE terrorist bombings in Jakarta are a savage blow against Indonesian democracy and society that demonstrate the ferocious resilience of Islamist extremism as a...
- China Bluffs the World - July 8, 2009
- The violence and rioting in Urumqi, and other cities in the vast, desolate Western Chinese province of Xinjiang, constitute the greatest political loss of life in China...
- The West's Hypocrites Betray Iran - The Australian - July 1, 2009
- THE missing actor in the tragic and gruesome story of Iran since the stolen election of June 12 has been the Western human rights lobby. Where is it? What has happened...
- Obama Kindles Palestinian Hope - June 26, 2009
- BARACK Obama has become ahero to the Palestinians. Meanwhile, a poll published in The Jerusalem Post shows a minuscule 6 per cent of Israelis believe Obama's...
- A Weak, Divided Iran Best for U.S. - June 22, 2009
- THE Iranian regime will almost certainly reassert full control over the country in the next few days, but it will emerge from this crisis seriously weakened. One...
- No Hope for Change in Tehran - June 17, 2009
- EVEN stolen elections have results that matter. The election that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole from the Iranian people last weekend is no exception. Its...
- Obama Reaching for Hearts and Minds - The Australian - June 6, 2009
- Three Lessons from Pyongyang's Test - The Australian - May 27, 2009
- NORTH Korea's nuclear test and missile launchings offer sad and perhaps startling lessons. Lesson No.1: So far, the Barack Obama charm and kindness offensive has had no...
- Sri Lanka's Best Hope Lies in India - The Australian - May 22, 2009
- MAHINDA Rajapakse, Sri Lanka's President, has done what no Western leader has so far done. He has inflicted a devastating, presumably final, defeat on a terrorist...
- Unstable Trio Endangers the World - The Australian - May 8, 2009
- By Greg SheridanIt is the perfect strategic storm. The deadly combination of irrational fervour, aggressive nationalism, the unimaginable destructive power of nuclear...
- Pakistan Must Be Saved From Collapse - The Australian - April 30, 2009
- KEVIN Rudd rightly linked Australia's increased troop commitment to Afghanistan with a desire to ensure the viability of the Pakistani state. He identified this as a...
- Kim's Nuclear Reaction - The Australian - April 25, 2009