In the early hours of Saturday 8 October, an explosion on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia to Crimea demolished lengths of its road and railway tracks. Commentators in Ukraine are saying there are three …
On 25 September, Italy went to the polls and elected a record number of far-right members of parliament. As a result, the leader of the largest party in the winning coalition, Giorgia Meloni, is expected …
China has overtaken the United States to top the world in the number of high-quality scientific papers it is producing. Analysis by Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy indicates a marked improvement in …
The 20th anniversary of the Bali bombings is first and foremost a day to remember those lost in, and those who survived, the worst terrorist attack Australians have ever experienced. It is also an occasion …
The strategic partnership between the United States and India is pivotal to maintaining the balance of power in the vast Indo-Pacific region and counterbalancing China’s hegemonic ambitions. The US is India’s second-largest trading partner, and …
How a nation prepares for war is nearly as important as how it wages war. It is in peacetime that a military identifies and acquires the weapons with which it will fight, determines their optimal …
At the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, starting on Sunday , Xi Jinping will almost certainly be confirmed for a third term as the party’s general secretary and China’s president. With that, …
As India assumes the leadership of both the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the G20, Delhi will need to ensure that the concerns of developing nations are not ignored. At the head of two groups with …
As Australians absorb the damning evidence from inquiries into local casinos, Transparency International Australia has identified the nation as a favourite location for international money launderers. In its report, Asian roulette, the Geneva-based international research …
For decades, Australians’ faith in globalisation and economic liberalism ensured that discussions about resilience focussed on recovery from short-term disasters. But the impacts of Covid-19 and the exponential decline in global security in recent years …
With Indian Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Australia for his second trip here this year, much of the reaction will no doubt focus on his country’s supposed weakness towards Russia. Indeed, it has been …
In New York during United Nations climate week, Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen described the ‘enormous’ task Australia faced in moving industry towards decarbonisation. The new government’s proposed National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) is …
Following the Honiara riots in November last year, the Chinese Communist Party has pushed false narratives in coordinated information operations in an attempt to shape Solomon Islands public perception and to undermine the country’s relations …
No one could have foreseen that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s popularity would nosedive so soon after the Liberal Democratic Party triumphed in July’s election to the Upper House of the Japanese Diet. Until recently, …
As the Chinese Communist Party convenes next week to embellish and extend Xi Jinping’s role as emperor, the mandate of heaven wobbles. The imperial mandate has been translated into a Marxist mandate of history. Heaven …
The Indonesian government’s announcement on 27 September of its agreed 2023 defence budgetary allocation leaves Indonesia no closer to having a military capable of wielding a ‘minimum essential force’ (MEF) by 2024, let alone, on …
On 29 September, member states of the International Telecommunications Union voted to elect Doreen Bogdan-Martin as the organisation’s next secretary-general. Bogdan-Martin—a US national who’s served in the ITU since 1994—was in contention for the top …
There has been a discernible upturn in India–Australia defence ties in recent months, with increased interaction between the two maritime nations through bilateral and multilateral military exercises. The maritime waters between Indonesia and northern Australia …
The independent leads of Australia’s defence strategic review, Stephen Smith and Angus Houston, have a tough task on their hands. It’s the first such review since Paul Dibb’s in 1986, which largely governed the 1987 …
Australia has long positioned itself as a leader in the global effort to eradicate modern slavery. Two reports released in the past three months highlight both the importance of this leadership to Australia’s broader strategic …