Western military institutions exhibit a systemic learning deficit that prioritises exploitation of existing competencies over ...

Dr Bec Strating is Director of La Trobe Asia and Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at La Trobe University, focusing primarily on maritime disputes and Australian foreign ...

As the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue kicks off in Singapore on Friday, observers will be on the lookout for Admiral Dong Jun, China’s defence minister. The seniority of China’s representative at Shangri-La ...

Drone attacks on data centre facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during US–Israel–Iran conflict underscore that digital infrastructure can be physically exposed in war. The cloud is not ...

“Remarkably uneventful” and a missed opportunity seemed to capture views of Sanae Takaichi’s flying visit to Canberra last week. Bad weather interrupted a welcome ceremony for the Japanese PM at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, a billiard table upended an Indonesian official’s afternoon. The table, budgeted at Rp400 million (A$31,000) from public funds, appeared on a dashboard called Nemesis Assai, a tool built ...

For the best part of a decade, British politics was convulsed by madness. Prime minister after prime minister was consumed by the impossibility of taming the visceral political energies released by ...

On Monday, 11 May 2026, diplomats, scientists, and policymakers from across the world will gather in Hiroshima, Japan, for what shapes as a crucial meeting on Antarctica. The official outcomes report ...

A nakamal framework for bilateral relations can enable a more balanced partnership between the two countries — one that ...

The Iran war is hitting the Indo-Pacific’s most fragile economies hard. The shock is travelling through multiple channels at once: energy, food, financial stress, and political instability. A ...