Governments worldwide are scrambling to make sense of a volatile new world where the only certainty is uncertainty. And Australia is no exception. Last week’s federal budget brought forward defence ...

Disasters of all kinds have been commonplace in Myanmar, the country reeling from one crisis after another, whether environmental or political. A brief decade of relative freedom and economic growth ...

The Houthis have proven resilient in the face of strikes. The Trump administration’s strikes this month on Yemen are not the first effort to disrupt the ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. The ...

For all the talk of alignment, Australia has no influence with North Korea, and South Korea has different interests with China. Despite these efforts, Australia has little real influence over North ...

Last month, three Chinese naval vessels conducted live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea without prior notification to Canberra while on a voyage circling Australia. The drills not only heightened ...

Donald Trump may have well and truly trashed most of the conventional interpretations of American exceptionalism in little more than two months in office. However, it says a lot about the enduring ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

In a show of what appeared to be humble pie, Myanmar’s junta boss acknowledged that the scale of Friday’s earthquake would be beyond Myanmar’s capabilities and “invited” an international response to ...

Vietnam was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term. This time, Vietnam could be among the biggest casualties. Trump’s first term tariffs on China ...

A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

This is a lightly edited transcript of remarks delivered at the Sovereignty and Security Forum, held at the National Press Club in Canberra on 31 March. The event was convened and chaired by Australia ...

At last week’s Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, the Philippines’ Armed Forces Chief didn’t mince words, calling on India and South Korea to join an Indo-Pacific “Squad” to push back against China’s ...