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Geoff Raby

Brisbane Times

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Best of 2025 - After Trump goes home

15.01.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Australia's strategic choices in a fragmenting global order

30.11.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Without peer in Australian media – Geoff Raby

25.11.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

After Trump goes home

10.11.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Trump turns the tables on Taiwan

05.11.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

How Trump meeting with Albanese turned the tables on Taiwan

The President’s statement that China has no appetite to invade Taiwan could be the beginning of a shift from a posture based on the inevitability of...

24.10.2025 10

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

China’s giant military parade didn’t surprise just the West

15.09.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

China’s giant military parade didn’t surprise just the West

China’s recent display of its newly acquired military might surprised not only international observers but its own seasoned diplomats.

12.09.2025 9

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

Albanese’s visit to China is a moment for statesmanship

11.07.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

I was ambassador in China. Here’s what Xi will want to discuss with Albo

When the prime minister meets the head of the world’s biggest political machine, it is more than anything else an opportunity for exercising...

08.07.2025 10

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

The Russians are not coming to Indonesia

20.05.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

The Russians are not coming to Indonesia

At no time did any of our national leaders consider how preposterous was the suggestion that Indonesia might let Russia base long-range bombers in...

16.05.2025 10

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

Is China really the main threat to Australia's security?

11.04.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Great power diplomacy in the era of Trump 2.0

26.03.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

Trump’s strange affair with Putin and Xi leaves allies out in the cold

The direct dealings between the American and Russian presidents in deciding Europe’s eastern front have the whiff of Yalta in 1945.

21.03.2025 9

Financial Review

Geoff Raby

China’s digital sputnik moment

12.02.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Geoff Raby

DeepSeek is a sign of China’s structural shift, not decline

Contrary to the narrative that China’s private sector has been squeezed into irrelevance, major developments in new industries are being led by...

07.02.2025 6

Financial Review

Geoff Raby