When Narendra Modi arrives in Australia this week, much of the focus will rightly be on how far the India–Australia relationship has travelled. This will be his third visit (Opens in new window) as ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke plainly (Opens in new window) when he recently said that China was keen on increasing its influence “at a minimum, and [achieving] hegemony in the ...

Last month, Thailand decided to scrap a Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia (Opens in new window) concerning their maritime disputes, including a framework for a joint marine resources ...

Australians register historic levels of distrust and unease in 2026 Charles Lyons-Jones ...

An assessment of the size and shape of the PLA's growing capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. Special-operation soldiers aboard the missile frigate Yueyang, a Type 054A (Jiangkai-II class) multi-role ...

Afghanistan is giving away its mineral wealth. Through a pattern of deals that export value at the point of extraction, the country is surrendering control over what could – and should – be its ...

In 2023, the Australian government adopted a “strategy of denial” to guide defence planning, defined as an “defensive approach designed to stop an adversary from succeeding in its goal to coerce ...

Australia is not on the list of countries calling for a moratorium on DSM. These ill-defined impacts of DSM on the Pacific’s greatest shared resource – the ocean – are why Palau, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, ...

Donald Trump’s behaviour during this presidential term reveals a surprisingly deep strategic logic. The core goal remains to restore absolute American superiority over China and Russia. But Trump ...

The UN’s regular budget has been reduced from an estimated US$3.72 billion in 2025 to $3.45 billion in 2026, a cut that underscores the scale of the organisation’s current liquidity crisis. The ...

On many metrics, certainly scale and affordability, Chinese companies are well ahead of the rest when it comes to manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs). Yet the United States, long since overtaken by ...

The sovereign citizen movement has spread from the United States to more than 26 countries globally. Covid restrictions and digital networks accelerated its growth and created dangerous intersections ...