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  • 27 Jul 2023
    • China
    • United States

    Qin Gang has come and gone, but US-China drama is stuck on repeat

    Daniel R. DePetris
    The sudden and surprising demise of China’s foreign minister won’t change the systemic tensions in the relationship.
  • 27 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    An agenda for the AUSMIN talks

    Sam Roggeveen
    Australia should spend less time worrying about American strength – and more time thinking about its resolve.
  • 26 Jul 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Geo-economics
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States
    • US Economy

    A return to old-school mercantilism?

    Ved Shinde
    Suspicion and economic competition are forcing states back in time, with protectionism and self-sufficiency the new norm.
  • 24 Jul 2023
    • China
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • United States

    Forget Washington, Pyongyang’s most important target has always been Beijing

    Khang Vu
    Kim Jong-un’s charm offensive with Donald Trump may have yielded few results. Not so his efforts with Xi Jinping.
  • 17 Jul 2023
    • China
    • Japan
    • Taiwan
    • Australia
    • United States

    The emergence of “collective strategic ambiguity” on Taiwan

    Rupert Schulenburg
    With a change in language, has Washington over-promised on its allies’ appetite for conflict with China?
  • 10 Jul 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology
    • United States

    The Quad: Tackling the spider, not cobwebs, in cyberspace

    Ravi Nayyar
    A security pact, but not as we know it. How a commitment to uplift software security will reap benefits for all.
  • 5 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Papua New Guinea
    • United States

    The downsides for Australia from the US‑PNG defence agreement

    Henry Storey
    Sovereignty concerns about the American deal will create additional hurdles for Australia-PNG Defence Treaty currently under negotiation.
  • 27 Jun 2023
    • China
    • Vietnam
    • United States

    China’s double wedge against efforts to foster Vietnam-US relations

    Khang Vu
    Just as Beijing seeks to coerce Hanoi in the South China Sea, it warns about Washington’s intentions closer to home.
  • 19 Jun 2023
    • India
    • United States

    Will Modi charm again in Washington?

    Aarti Betigeri
    The Indian PM’s visit will see Biden embrace a polarising leader while trying to keep an influential diaspora onside.
  • 16 Jun 2023
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Global Economic Governance
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Is US industrial policy headed in the wrong direction?

    Connor O’Brien
    Washington’s geopolitical strategy threatens to entrench economic hierarchies and undermine the global green transition.
  • 15 Jun 2023
    • Middle East
    • United States

    Washington’s difficult dance in the Middle East

    Ved Shinde
    The United States is recalibrating its strategy in the region and using history as a guide.
  • 15 Jun 2023
    • China
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • United States

    It’s time for South Korea to refocus on multilateral diplomacy 

    Gabriela Bernal
    A new national security strategy stresses values-based diplomacy, but that can’t be at the expense of talking to China. 
  • 13 Jun 2023
    • China
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Shangri-La: A missed chance for US–China dialogue

    Cherry Hitkari
    But at least both sides recognised that the outbreak of a conflict would be “unbearable”.
  • 9 Jun 2023
    • Bangladesh
    • United States

    The US steps up pressure on Bangladesh ahead of elections

    Md Salman Rahman
    Concerns about fostering democracy must also be considered alongside growing US strategic interests in the country.
  • 8 Jun 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Europe's Economy
    • European Union
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Geo-economics
    • IMF
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: Duelling D-words to delineate China

    Greg Earl
    Australia seems to be treading carefully around the G7’s agreement to de-risk dependence on the region’s biggest economy.
  • 6 Jun 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Defence & Security
    • International law
    • United States

    US-China: A Cold War lesson to apply “rules of the road” at sea

    Donald R Rothwell
    Soviet and American warships had a code to prevent dangerous encounters and the US and China should have the same.
  • 5 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • International law
    • War Crimes
    • United States

    Lessons from history: Comparing Australia’s response to war crimes with the United States

    Daniel Flitton
    The fallout from the Ben Roberts-Smith case is only the beginning of a reckoning about justice in war.
  • 19 May 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Global Issues
    • United States

    Building a Quad that lasts to the next generation

    Kate Clayton , Eleanor Shiori Hughes
    Joe Biden won’t decide the future of the Quad. But he and the other engaged leaders can help foster it.
  • 17 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Papua New Guinea
    • United States

    Biden’s trip cancellations reveal pitfalls of a crowded diplomatic calendar

    Daniel Flitton
    Bailing on Australia and PNG highlights the growing risk of disappointment when leaders are clambering to summits here, there, everywhere.
  • 10 May 2023
    • Global Economy
    • Geo-economics
    • United States

    Biden’s quiet economic revolution

    Nick Bisley
    The guiding hand of the state is back as geopolitics rules.
  • 28 Apr 2023
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Marcos has turned the Philippines towards America – not without risks

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    An expanded US military presence will benefit efforts to stand up to China. But Filipinos are wary of the social cost.
  • 27 Apr 2023
    • South Korea
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • United States

    Will US reassurance be enough to halt South Korea’s nuclear ambition?

    Eva Mackinley
    Seoul has won extra support from Washington, but not for the goal of global disarmament.
  • 26 Apr 2023
    • Asean
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • United States

    Quad should ask ASEAN to a diplomatic dance

    Ved Shinde
    For all the talk of hedging, Southeast Asian nations have long worried about China’s ambition to dominate the region.
  • 19 Apr 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • United States

    Hugh White on the choice facing Penny Wong

    Hugh White
    How long can the Foreign Minister talk of a multipolar order in Asia in a government working to bolster US strategic primacy?
  • 18 Apr 2023
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Melanesia
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • United States

    Not the Indo-Pacific: a Melanesian view on strategic competition

    Patrick Kaiku
    The states of the southwest Pacific are not interested in a zero-sum contest between the United States and China.
  • 13 Apr 2023
    • Asia
    • China
    • Global Economy
    • IMF
    • United States

    Economic diplomacy: Counting the cost of decoupling

    Greg Earl
    US-China tensions are disrupting economic links for other countries as new forecasts of slow growth make change harder.
  • 12 Apr 2023
    • China
    • Australia in the World
    • China-Australia Relations
    • United States

    Australia’s delicate dance with the United States and China

    Philipp Ivanov
    Could Canberra’s deft management of its Beijing relationship influence policy in Washington?
  • 4 Apr 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    To help end war in Ukraine, the Quad should back India to engage Russia

    Adarsh Badri
    India might be accused of playing both sides but also has the special relationships to lead a push towards a settlement.
  • 4 Apr 2023
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • United States

    North Korea keeps building more powerful weapons, with no end in sight

    Gabriela Bernal
    Diplomacy is desperately needed to avoid an irreversible escalation in nuclear capability and the excuse to use it.
  • 3 Apr 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    What the Quad could learn from AUKUS

    Arzan Tarapore
    If the four powers decide to adopt a greater security role, they should go beyond empty signals.
  • 22 Mar 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    AUKUS commits Australia to fight China if America does, simple

    Hugh White
    Whatever the flag, Washington would not sell nuclear-powered boats unless it could count on them in war over Taiwan.
  • 17 Mar 2023
    • Afghanistan
    • China
    • Al Qaeda
    • Islamic State
    • Terrorism
    • Russia
    • United States

    Is a stable Afghanistan where China, Russia and the US cooperate?

    Adam H. Dehsabzi
    Three of the world’s most influential powers have skin in the game when it comes to preventing another civil war.
  • 16 Mar 2023
    • Iraq War
    • Iraq
    • United States

    What went right in Iraq

    Paul Bremer
    Twenty years on, the former Coalition Provisional Authority head reflects on his year in charge of the country.
  • 14 Mar 2023
    • Japan
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • United States

    Japan and South Korea: a logical but uneasy alignment

    Robert E Kelly
    Is a compensation deal to right colonial-era wrongs part of a strategic shift towards rapprochement?
  • 10 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    AUKUS: Asking a veteran submariner what to think

    Justin Burke
    What are the big issues still lurking beneath the surface of the AUKUS debate?
  • 2 Mar 2023
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    AUKUS and intellectual property

    Naoise McDonagh , Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann
    In an era of economic entanglement, IP theft has the potential to threaten democracy. Governments need to be vigilant.
  • 15 Feb 2023
    • China
    • United States

    Balloon goes up for Washington’s “decisive decade”

    Elizabeth Buchanan
    Matching it with Beijing will take far more attention than the United States has so far devoted.
  • 15 Feb 2023
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • China
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Reset in US–Philippines relations tells of yet another China fumble

    Makoi Popioco
    The 180-degree reversal in Manila’s foreign policy was a consequent evolution of the previous regime’ approach.
  • 6 Feb 2023
    • Asia
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • United States

    The big picture: five lessons for five years of the Asia Power Index

    Hervé Lemahieu
    Superpower rivalry matters – but don’t be blinded to the role of smaller players in a region of many contests.
  • 6 Feb 2023
    • China
    • International Relations
    • United States

    Chinese grey zone spy balloons over the American heartland

    Peter Layton
    High-flying espionage went out of fashion in the 1960s, but the most recent sky crisis has reignited tensions.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • New Zealand
    • United States
    • Sex and Gender

    Women leaders: not so poles apart

    Erin Hurley
    In seemingly different settings, Jacinda Ardern and Nancy Pelosi confronted much the same challenges.
  • 26 Jan 2023
    • Bangladesh
    • United States

    Sanctions help bring accountability in Bangladesh

    Mubashar Hasan
    Extrajudicial killings and disappearances have dropped dramatically, with the government aware the world is watching.
  • 16 Jan 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • United States

    Towards meaningful Quad cooperation on intelligence

    Arzan Tarapore
    Collaborative AI capabilities would allow the partners to deepen military cooperation, should leaders choose that step.
  • 29 Dec 2022
    • China
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Global Issues
    • United States
    • Review

    Pop culture politics: How to Interpret 2022

    Daniel Flitton
    “Soft power” or reputation risk, the cross-over of popular entertainment and global politics is never far from the news.
  • 19 Dec 2022
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    A focused direction for the Quad

    Erin Mello
    Doubling-down on existing initiatives – rather than new goals – will see the grouping deliver tangible public goods.
  • 9 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    US-Australia alliance: beyond sentiment

    Caitlin Byrne , Peter Dean , Stephan Frühling , Andrew O'Neil
    Of supporters or sceptics alike, new research shows most Australians view the alliance via a cost-benefit analysis.
  • 8 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    AUSMIN: the submarine conundrum

    Justin Burke
    It’s a big challenge to manage the ambition for nuclear-powered subs and still juggle other crucial defence decisions.
  • 6 Dec 2022
    • Philippines
    • United States

    The US may force the Philippines’ (willing) hand

    Michael Beltran
    A visit by VP Kamala Harris has revitalised a military pact and shown how Bongbong Marcos views America’s regional role.
  • 1 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Global Issues
    • Qatar
    • United States

    Economic diplomacy: Scoring goals outside the stadium

    Greg Earl
    Shifting geopolitics and economics make picking the diplomatic champion from the Qatar World Cup more challenging.
  • 21 Nov 2022
    • Pacific Islands
    • United States

    Will the new US Congress still pay for its Pacific promises?

    Jessica Collins
    The Biden administration has staked $810 million on a regional strategy and now must ensure bipartisan support.
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