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 ...

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

The abrupt disabling of Anthropic’s Mythos models exposed how readily one government can cut off global AI access – a choice Australia cannot ignore. An AGI hegemon would be far more powerful than any ...

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 ...

When Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, the American president has said he expects the Chinese leader to greet him with “a big, fat hug.” While Southeast Asians would like to see a ...

When a tailings dam collapsed at a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia last year, tens of millions of litres of toxic waste spilled into waterways feeding the Kafue River, the country’s most important ...

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, ...

We’re told that President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy is all about China, that a master strategist is at work to isolate Beijing from the world by attacking one of its closest partners and a ...

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 ...