Some argue Australia should not rest easy since it might get the European treatment when the President shows up. Could be, but I doubt it.

Labour will pile up big majorities in anti-Brexit London and in university areas but will fail to pick up marginal seats required to do well, let alone win.

China believes it is being deliberately misrepresented and victimised by an ‘arrogant’ US and its allies

Dr Adhanom will take over a WHO under siege from criticism for both its slow response to the Ebola epidemic and its big travel budget.

'We will still be there. And we will be there with you'.

The key question is whether Australian overtures to Tillerson and Mattis will inform President Trump’s decision making.

AUSMIN is the most important regular event in the conduct of the alliance between Australia and the US.

The Trump administration’s backward-looking and isolationist stance is the opposite of what's needed by the industries of the future.

It was a week dominated by debates about China's rise, violence in the Philippines, and a wonderful anecdote about an Australian general and a narrowly avoided diplomatic incident in Myanmar.

It needs to be understood that Russia views the EU and the West generally as an enemy.

The Arctic will be the next big test of UNCLOS with competing sovereignty claims already apparent.

The US President made all the right noises about new business from Vietnam.

Singapore has released a Pokemon-Go-inspired augmented reality game where users hunt for military vehicles.

In the matter of China’s growing sphere of influence, there are no easy paths. The South China Sea dispute may be newsworthy but is only a subset of a much larger fray.

Whether or not President Trump withdraws the United States from the Paris Agreement is less important than how other countries respond to his decision.

This week's column examines how the TPP 11 and RECP proposals could compete for attention ahead of Australia's summit of South East Asian leaders next year.

This week's links include the aftermath of Cyclone Mora, a backgrounder of US foreign workers and population trends in Northern Australia.

There are many obstacles to Duterte’s ambitious goal of an AFP-NPA-MNLF-MILF coalition.

Four inhabited islands would have be submerged were the dam to go ahead, displacing 19,000 people.

This week's links include the UN Oceans' Conference and detail on the PACER Plus trade deal.

Competition and contestation among Asia’s mega powers will be the defining feature of the region’s future.

While General Hartley’s visit to Myanmar was unplanned, indeed inadvertent, it was also unauthorised.

Should Australia join this treaty, it would need to end its claimed reliance on the US nuclear umbrella.

The overall story of Australian foreign policy is pretty positive. But there's no doubt we dragged our feet at various stages.

China has gone from being a minor player in the polar regions to becoming a major actor in a little over 10 years.

Legal safeguards that kept the 2009 declaration of martial law following the Maguindanao massacre in check are unlikely to play out in the same way today.

Trump is clearly making things worse, but the fraying of the US-Germany partnership is a story as long as the post-Cold War era.

Sir Michael speaks of failings by Australia in PNG, a mistake he made after independence, and the controversial regional payments distributed by MPs.

If the economy is already back to full capacity, what hope is there for the many Trump voters who find themselves without satisfying jobs?

Is World Bank chief economist Dr Paul Romer being sidelined? This is one of the topics covered in this week's links.

Stephen Grenville's intervew with Sebastian Mallaby covered Trump, the US Federal Reserve, what the RBA can learn from America and how Trump might interact the World Bank and IMF.

Young people, previously taught to observe some principles in fighting, are growing up amid conflict without rules.

Our contribution should meet the need expressed by the commander, stay for as long as is necessary, and contribute to military and political success.

America’s alliances are not much of an asset at all in managing relations with China. Indeed they are in many ways a net liability, because the benefits they offer are offset by the costs they impose.

US Freedom of Navigation Operations, Australia and Europe react to Belt and Road, the future of globalisation, and more.

My research into how diplomatic missions use Facebook has identified four forms of communication that Ambassadors can attempt.

Putin must now be tempted to suspect that God is a Russian; or at least on the side of his righteous and much maligned compatriots.

The selection of Mischief Reef raises the question as to what particular freedom of navigation the US was seeking to exercise.

At international meetings of this kind, especially with China absent, the views of the US still tend to be hard to resist.

Relations with China are chilly but have not descended into conflict, US relations are stable, and there has been some promising global outreach for Taiwan.

This week's links include Australia's crackdown on 'fake refugees', US officials on Manus Island, and working to pre-empt disaster displacement on Myanmar and Vanuatu.

There is a hard road ahead to bring the TPP11 into force. Our best hope is that Japan’s leadership on this issue continues.

A broader use of Australia’s ‘declared areas’ legislation should be considered.

In the late 1970s, when deciding how to respond to asylum seekers arriving by boat, the government said Australia had a commitment to provide 'sanctuary to genuine refugees within its territory'.

This week's links include the role for religious leaders and churches in climate change strategies, PNG pollies taking to social media, and the end of RAMSI on the Solomons.

Reviewing an absorbing new collection of essays from an impressive array of former soldiers, military historians, and academics.

Even under revitalised leadership, there are significant geopolitical and domestic constraints on Seoul’s room for manoeuvre with North Korea.

Jakarta's governor Ahok has been jailed for blasphemy, but that doesn’t mean Islamists are on the march in Indonesia.

The G7 meeting comes at a time when economic globalisation is widely said to have stalled, if not moved into reverse, but there is plenty of data that suggests otherwise.

A magisterial volume, destined to be the authoritative work on US strategy toward Asia for many years to come.