For all the talk of alignment, Australia has no influence with North Korea, and South Korea has different interests with China. Despite these efforts, Australia has little real influence over North ...

Rather than setting off a cascade of countries withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the US president may have achieved the opposite. It is astounding what Donald Trump gets away with by using a ball ...

The Philippines made history by handing over former president Rodrigo Duterte this month to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity. In many ways, the move has ...

A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

Donald Trump may have well and truly trashed most of the conventional interpretations of American exceptionalism in little more than two months in office. However, it says a lot about the enduring ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

The big question for Australia’s pre-election aid budget released this week was how it would respond to a global development landscape in turmoil. Deep aid cuts by the United States and, to a lesser ...

Vietnam was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term. This time, Vietnam could be among the biggest casualties. Trump’s first term tariffs on China ...

At last week’s Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, the Philippines’ Armed Forces Chief didn’t mince words, calling on India and South Korea to join an Indo-Pacific “Squad” to push back against China’s ...

Australia and Indonesia signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) last year, reinforcing the existing Lombok Treaty while signalling a commitment to deeper practical cooperation. However, concerns ...

Last week, India hosted its premier geopolitical forum, the Raisina Dialogue, which provides an annual snapshot of how India understands its foreign policy and role in the world. Over ten years, the ...

Among the Canberra national security commentariat, it has been hard to have a conversation in the past couple of years without someone mentioning “the archipelago”. This is the space in which the ...