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  • 18 Jul 2017
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security

    Politics and policy meet in new Home Affairs Department

    Geoff Kitney
    The Dutton appointment has given an element of domestic political intrigue to the Prime Minister’s announcement.
  • 18 Jul 2017
    • China

    China sees the West behind Liu Xiaobo

    Merriden Varrall
    Social media posts by Chinese people around the world suggest the idea that the West has some role in Liu Xiaobo’s downfall has traction.
  • 18 Jul 2017
    • Saudi Arabia
    • United Arab Emirates

    Defence exports to the Gulf: No price on values

    Rodger Shanahan
    We should always be clear-headed about the degree to which it is our interests, rather than shared values, that tie us to states in the Gulf.
  • 18 Jul 2017
    • Cyber Security
    • Australia

    Why Australia might be on the right encryption-cracking track

    David Wells
    Australia may prove to be the test case for a policy solution that has far reaching consequences for privacy, technological development and the future of law enforcement operations.
  • 18 Jul 2017
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump in Warsaw, Hamburg and Paris

    Daniel Woker
    In three European cities, we've witnessed a variety of reactions to a US president unlike any the world has seen before.
  • 17 Jul 2017
    • Indonesia

    Jokowi’s bungled ban of Hizbut Tahrir

    Gregory Fealy
    The proposed ban on HTI looks very much like an abuse of state power for political aims.
  • 17 Jul 2017
    • Asia
    • Pakistan

    Pakistan’s political turmoil

    Emanuel Sarfraz
    Prime Minister Sharif has made it clear he wants to fight to the end, whatever the consequences. In such a fluid situation, army intervention can't be ruled out.
  • 17 Jul 2017
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Aid and development links: Kenyan elections, the SDGs, aid systems and more

    Jonathan Pryke
    A basic income trial in Kenya, the fascinating and lucrative relationship between North Korea and Africa, how the aid system needs to change and more.
  • 17 Jul 2017
    • Europe
    • G20

    The G20 Hamburg riots and the German election

    Marcus Colla
    The G20 riots in Hamburg have raised a number of pertinent political questions about domestic security and political extremism in Germany.
  • 16 Jul 2017
    • Australia in the World

    An Australian Space Agency: Will History Repeat?

    Morris Jones
    Australia has punched well below its weight in space for decades.
  • 15 Jul 2017

    Weekend catch-up: Missile tech, naval exercises, Liu Xiaobo and more

    What to do about North Korea's nuclear weapons program, how the US is ceding its position as leader of the global economic order, PNG's election and more.
  • 14 Jul 2017
    • China's Government

    Australia’s shameful silence on Liu Xiaobo

    Elaine Pearson
    Liu was one of thousands of political prisoners in China. Australia should not let his death pass without challenging Beijing on his mistreatment.
  • 14 Jul 2017
    • Papua New Guinea

    PNG elections: EAC resignations suggest poor preparations

    Sam Koim
    If the EAC is an important element in the governance framework, why was its formation left so late?
  • 14 Jul 2017
    • Asia
    • India's Military

    Malabar 17 exercise: The China subtext

    Shashank Joshi
    Malabar 17 comes as China’s naval presence in the Indian Ocean is showing signs of a qualitative shift.
  • 13 Jul 2017
    • Taiwan

    The end of martial law: An important anniversary for Taiwan

    Mark Harrison
    When martial law ended on 15 July, 1987, people began the fraught and intricate task of speaking truths silenced by Taiwan’s coercive state.
  • 13 Jul 2017

    Migration and border policy links: Regional Australia, irregular channels, Philippine migration policy and more

    Rachael Buckland
    Manus Island's transit centre, the shortcomings of Britain's asylum support system, Greek islands at breaking point and more.
  • 13 Jul 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump's Warsaw speech: Heed the message, not the messenger

    Matthew Dal Santo
    In the uproar over Trump’s speech, is it the borders and civilizations that are resented, or the political duties they imply?
  • 13 Jul 2017
    • Global Economy

    Economic diplomacy brief: Trade deals keep flowing, doing business with China

    Greg Earl
    While US policy has become more insular this year, other G20 countries are taking less protective new actions than in the recent past.
  • 12 Jul 2017
    • Pacific Islands

    Pacific links: PNG’s election, Vanuatu’s new president, Kiribati’s anniversary and more

    Voting is over in the PNG elections but the drama of the event continues.
  • 12 Jul 2017
    • North Korea

    Entering the North Korean re-entry debate

    Morris Jones
    It's likely there was indeed no successful re-entry on the North Korean test, but that should not be immediately interpreted as a setback for the program.
  • 12 Jul 2017
    • Asia
    • Russia

    Mongolia’s presidential election outcome a win for Putin

    Edward Cavanough
    With Battulga now at the helm in Mongolia, the Moscow-Ulaanbaatar relationship looks set to deepen.
  • 12 Jul 2017
    • Global Economy

    Safeguarding competition in a cyber economy

    Stephen Grenville
    We should applaud Brussels’s tentative attempts to provide some de facto global rules for technology giants in these new areas of market power.
  • 11 Jul 2017
    • South China Sea
    • India
    • Vietnam

    Vietnam and India: Shared interests in the South China Sea

    Helen Clark
    Vietnam regards naval activity by larger nations like India and the US in the area as a useful deterrent against China.
  • 11 Jul 2017
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security

    Missile defence for Australia? Expensive and probably not wise

    The North Korean ballistic missile threat is both more intractable, but also less dramatic, than calls for an Australian national missile defence suggest.
  • 11 Jul 2017
    • North Korea

    How to complicate North Korea’s nuclear weapons plans

    Peter Layton
    Let's imagine that the US and its allies were determined to prevent North Korea achieving its nuclear force ambitions. What could be done?
  • 11 Jul 2017
    • Nuclear Weapons

    The nuclear weapon ban treaty is significant but flawed

    John Carlson
    The UN's nuclear weapon ban is a landmark treaty, but there are some serious problems with the text.
  • 10 Jul 2017
    • Global Economy

    A new era of leadership by the G19?

    Roland Rajah
    The G19 have effectively acted as a counterweight to the stated agenda of protectionism and bilateralism being pursued by President Trump.
  • 10 Jul 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • China's Military

    Exercise Joint Sea 2017: A new step in Russo-Chinese naval cooperation?

    James Goldrick
    The upcoming China-Russia naval exercise suggests an emerging alignment on China’s behaviour in the South China Sea and Russia’s approach to security in the Baltic.
  • 10 Jul 2017

    Aid & development links: Sudan, planning families, advice for academics and more

    Jonathan Pryke
    This week's links also include EconTalk podcasts featuring Lant Pritchett and Chris Blattman while Duncan Green's advice to academics creates a stir.
  • 10 Jul 2017
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump’s slow adjustment to global trade realities

    John Edwards
    European leaders probably recognise that US presidents are usually difficult on trade issues, and for all his efforts Trump has yet to prove himself more unsatisfactory than his predecessors.
  • 10 Jul 2017
    • Japan
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • The Trump Presidency

    Learning to live with a North Korean ICBM

    Robert E Kelly
    There is much complaining in South Korea and Japan that missile defence is too expensive. The time for this whining is over.
  • 8 Jul 2017

    Weekend catch-up: ICBMs, Xi in Hong Kong, RAMSI and more

    Sam Roggeveen &Victor Abramowicz on North Korea's ICBM test, Vivienne Chow & Frances Kitt on Xi Jinping's Hong Kong visit, Amanda Kates on RAMSI and more.
  • 7 Jul 2017
    • China-India Relations

    Game-changer: The China-India stand-off in the Himalayas

    Pradeep Taneja
    China and India have peacefully resolved similar incidents in the past. This time, however, the threat of war is being freely mentioned.
  • 7 Jul 2017
    • China
    • Thailand

    Enter the dragon: Thailand gets closer to China

    Patrick Jory
    Thailand’s deepening economic relations with China come at a time of acute political polarisation and instability for the country.
  • 7 Jul 2017
    • India
    • Pakistan

    Pakistan and Jaish-e-Mohammad: An unholy alliance

    Raj Verma
    The resurgence of Jaish-e-Mohammed is dangerous for India. Only time will tell whether it is also a bad omen for Pakistan.
  • 7 Jul 2017

    North Korea's strangely disorganised missile program

    Victor Abramowicz
    Focusing on single, effective and deployable ICBM would have been far more dangerous for the world.
  • 7 Jul 2017
    • United States
    • North Korea

    North Korea: Jake Sullivan on America's policy dilemma

    Erin Harris
    'They are casting about, just like we would have done if we had won, for a potential solution to a wicked problem.'
  • 6 Jul 2017
    • China

    Winding back the China Solution

    David Kelly
    Early tensions over the China Solution cropped in a debate on the ‘Kindle­berger Trap’, a theme initiated by political scientist Joseph Nye.
  • 6 Jul 2017
    • Migration

    Migration & border policy links: Italy overwhelmed, Thailand’s crackdown, US travel ban and more

    Rachael Buckland
    This week's links also include refugees heading home in the Central African Republic and the UK's immigration amnesty for Grenfell Tower fire survivors.
  • 6 Jul 2017
    • Middle East
    • Saudi Arabia

    Stalemate in Qatar dispute

    Rodger Shanahan
    If Saudi Arabia can't make Doha dance to its tune, then Riyadh runs the risk of further reducing regional states' confidence in its leadership capabilities.
  • 6 Jul 2017
    • Australia and Climate Change

    Three focus points for Turnbull at G20 summit

    Greg Colton
    The G20 should focus on climate change and Australia has an important role to play as a regional leader.
  • 6 Jul 2017
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Solomon Islands

    The end of RAMSI: A new beginning for policing in the Pacific

    Amanda Kates
    Wherever our officers are sent in the future, they will have a better understanding of how to work with partners in building and developing law enforcement capability.
  • 5 Jul 2017
    • Pacific Islands

    Pacific links: PNG election, Fiji’s and Samoa’s budget deficits, COP23 warm up, and more

    Jonathan Pryke
    This week's links also cover off on the ongoing process to elect Vanuatu's new president and different views on climate change and resettlement.
  • 5 Jul 2017
    • North Korea

    North Korea’s ICBM weakens Washington’s hand in Asia

    Sam Roggeveen
    A world in which Japan and South Korea have less trust in America's ability and willingness to defend them against North Korea is one that works to China's advantage.
  • 5 Jul 2017
    • Indonesia
    • The Trump Presidency

    Trump's Indonesian business dealings: Taking the toll road

    Jamie Davidson
    Even if Trump’s toll road serves only the resort, in this specific instance it will not be running afoul of Indonesian law.
  • 5 Jul 2017
    • Middle East Conflict

    Lifting the veil on jihad

    Rodger Shanahan
    Tareq Kamleh’s latest video is a jarring demonstration of the jihadi propensity to cite humanitarian activities in a bid to disguise their true motivations and actions.
  • 5 Jul 2017
    • China
    • Migration

    How China views the plight of refugees

    Merriden Varrall
    The Chinese position is that its most valuable contribution to the global humanitarian good is the development and stability of China itself.
  • 4 Jul 2017
    • China

    China and Hong Kong: ‘One country above all’

    Vivienne Chow
    Xi’s itinerary during his three-day whirlwind visit to the city, his first as President, was packed with highly symbolic events showing Hong Kongers, and the world, who’s boss.
  • 4 Jul 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • China's Military

    China’s new warship and the strategic challenge to America

    James Goldrick
    The Type 055 is one component of the Chinese drive to create aircraft-carrier task forces which are capable of regional and even global operations.
  • 4 Jul 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • Cyber Warfare

    Explaining Australia’s sharp turn to information warfare

    Greg Austin
    Last week the Turnbull Government announced the creation of the country's modified version of a US Cyber Command. What combination of threat or opportunity pushed Australia into this position?
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