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Hamish McDonald

About Hamish McDonald

Hamish McDonald has been a correspondent in Jakarta, Tokyo, New Delhi and Beijing, and was Regional Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and Foreign Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. He has won two Walkley Awards for reporting from Asia and was made an Inaugural Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

His country, weak or strong (Inside Story 3 August, 2020)

By Hamish McDonald | On 5 August 2020

Xi Jinping is standing in an open military vehicle as it rolls down Beijing’s Avenue of Heavenly Peace. He greets the thousands of troops lined up on either side: “Comrades, thank you for your work!” Heads swivelling to keep their … Continue reading →

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Media in the Asian Century

By Hamish McDonald | On 31 July 2020

As it turned out, Marise Payne seemed to be using the John Howard playbook of alliance management in the Washington visit.

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Media in the Asian Century

By Hamish McDonald | On 17 July 2020

Australian media lead the anti-China campaign.

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Media in the Asian Century

By Hamish McDonald | On 3 July 2020

Not the cyber Pearl Harbour

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Media in the Asian Century

By Hamish McDonald | On 19 June 2020

It’s actually less august journos in the Murdoch chain of tabloids that are getting Xi Jinping’s goat and setting relations with China into a downward spiral, at some cost to Australian exporters.

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HAMISH MCDONALD. Journalists on the ramparts (Inside Story 20.5.20)

By Hamish McDonald | On 25 May 2020

Another triumph for Canberra and the Morrison government’s deft and resolute diplomacy, it would seem. Support for an inquiry into Covid-19 from more than half of the 194 countries at the World Health Assembly in Geneva was “a major strategic … Continue reading →

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