China is terrified of what could happen to its central goal of CCP legitimacy in the case of ‘imperial overreach’.

Links on the growing collection of international actors using and manipulating cyberspace to fulfil international ambitions and shape global developments.

A lightly edited transcript of an email exchange between Professor Hugh White, author of 'The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power', and Lowy Institute Senior Fellow Sam Roggeveen.

Three major recent developments appear to indicate that the EU, at long last, is on the up again.

Australia's refugee commitment, Trump's immigration executive orders, human rights work in Sudan and more.

US sides with EU against China in trade dispute; is China's one belt one road all it seems; and why it's good to work for an exporter, particularly a constant one.

By showing it is possible to succeed in Afghanistan, Omaid Bahar is an important example for would-be entrepreneurs.

Australia’s argument that the proposed treaty would be ineffective is simply a cover for its true – and rarely stated – reason for opposing the ban.

The spectre of American retrenchment creates incentives for potentially exposed weaker states to increase their collaboration on regional security.

China wants to use the visit to try and clear up a few 'misunderstandings' with Australia.

The latest news, research and commentary from around the region.

The central government has ridden roughshod over local wishes about the name of a new bridge in a parliamentary vote.

The threat to pre-empt and target Pakistan nuclear weapons is a false promise, and one that is fraught with serious risks.

Perhaps the Fed has up its sleeve a supplementary way of tightening, in the form of unwinding quantitative easing.

Li is highly likely to have a successful and lauded trip that presents China as a reliable trading partner with exciting investment opportunities.

Anyone who thinks that Tillerson’s quiet deal-making style signals a new kind of appeasement towards Beijing simply isn’t paying attention.

It seems participation in the resistance to the Indonesia occupation remains the cornerstone of political legitimacy in Timor-Leste

Values play a proportionately larger part in the conceptualisation and practice of Australian foreign policy than is the case in most other Western democracies

As wind and solar deployment continues, we are going to see an increasing amount of battery storage deployed to secure supply and balance the grid.

The aid implications of Trump's budget, in defence of British aid spending, Indonesia moving away from being an aid recipient, and more.

Julie Bishop’s call for a US strengthening of the liberal order indicates a worrying staleness about policy thinking in Canberra.

Merkel and Trump may be contrasting personalities, but this is not necessarily a handicap to a functional, pragmatic relationship.

What Moon Jae-in would mean for the region, the Russian Revolution 100 years on, Australia-Vietnam relations and more.

The lack of certainty about future access to water is deeply troubling for those who have resided in the area for generations.

The latest election results strengthen Modi’s hold on political power in India, but we can expect a lot more of the same in his approach to international affairs: some risk-taking, more energy, greater clarity, and a dash of showmanship.

It is time for Australia to pick up some of the slack regionally as the Trump Administration pursues an America First policy. The time is right to advance bilateral relations to a strategic partnership level.

The EU should use the tools at its disposal to find short-term fixes to the crisis; a Turkey-style deal is clearly not that.

The Cybercrime Act has had and will have major ramifications for the role the internet plays in Papua New Guinean society.

Syrian refugees opening for business in Turkey, the impact of the EU-Turkey deal on asylum seekers, teachers using mobile phones as education tools in refugee camps and more.

There are some ideas in politics that turn a lot of laps before they find favour. Few have done the distance that a super national security department has.

The Foreign Policy White Paper will need to address the way economic and security analysts often talk past each other in the Australian policymaking space.

Whatever may be happening to the global security system, the global economy is growing, prospering, and is every day more closely integrated.

PNG wants Australia to fund education and health services, Manus Island Detention Centre - closed, but still operating, and two years after Cyclone Pam.

Russia’s last emperor Nicholas II remains a divisive subject, posing unresolved questions about the country’s past and present.

It's a good moment to ask whether the AIIB is holding true to the most central and repeated claim that the bank will be 'lean, clean and green'.

A key objective of Salman’s charm offensive is to court investors for an economy that has traditionally been closed to most international business.

The Foreign Minister has made clear that the liberal values at the heart of the regional order are of fundamental importance.

Policy-makers need to modifying government narratives and policy settings to embrace and celebrate the success of Australian investment internationally, as well as foreign investment in Australia.

The episode should trigger alarms for other neutrals concerned about the potential for North Korean skullduggery on their turf.

Universal basic income experiment in Kenya, South Sudanese government increases foreign aid visa fees days after famine declared, fund opposing Trump's global gag rule reaches $190 million and more.

A tightening of America’s purse-strings combined with scepticism about IMF programs would require a substantial rethink of the Fund’s operations.

Impeachment provisions are the constitutional equivalent of emergency brakes. One hopes they will never have to be used – but if they are, you pray fervently that they work properly.

Nation states, despite their political tenacity, are an economic anachronism.

There is great potential for conflict and collision in the increasingly crowded battlespace in northern Syria.

The candidate who stands to gain the most out of the Républicains’ difficulties is the Front National’s Marine Le Pen.

The full dimension of Australia's American alliance can't be fully comprehended if assessed on the military and intelligence relationship alone.

South Korea's likely next president Moon Jae-in favours an engagement-heavy approach toward North Korea that may push the US relationship into crisis, since the Trump administration has signalled a hard line on the regime.

International Women's Day on The Interpreter, Indonesian trade, North Korean tests and more.

LGBTQ+ asylum seekers detained in centres on Manus Island and Nauru are especially vulnerable to violence.