The Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister, Zheng Zeguang, set the tone for the recent ARF Cyber Workshop in Beijing when he said there should be three priorities for the nations gathered in the room. First, that …
It’s time for Australians to come to grips with their more troubling security outlook and debate how best to strengthen their deterrence and defensive capabilities. That’s the core message in my essay Game Plan: The …
In Australia, we typically don’t consider trade relationships and trade agreements as contributing to national security. Yet, there’s an important strategic economic dimension. If two or more economies are prospering because all are able to …
As we await the release of Government’s Cyber Security Strategy, the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s first unclassified threat report has provided an indication of the challenges the Strategy is seeking to overcome. The high rate …
The recent SDSC–CSIS report The ANZUS alliance in an ascending Asia (PDF) makes an interesting argument about the US–Australia alliance becoming a ‘central hub’ for American policy in the Pacific. We explained yesterday why we …