Exemplifying the enduring value of choke points, this year marks the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign conducted from February 1915 to January 1916 during the First World ...

Fortunately, the respondents to the Lowy Institute Poll are required to be more direct. In 2025, 69 per cent of respondents saw it as very likely or somewhat likely that China would become a military ...

It was a telling example of the manner in which conflicts from abroad can raise issues of peace and harmony in Australia, and also bring an extra dimension of pressure on Australian foreign policy.

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

An Interpreter series exploring the motives, scope, limitations and implications of Australia-Europe security cooperation (Defence Department) ...

Both Europe and Australia are waking up, not only to the challenges of a more antagonistic world order, but to the imperative of working together to address the common problems we face. This has been ...

Negotiations on a new global deal for financing development – a usually staid and cautious affair – saw a sensational twist in recent days when the United States suddenly withdrew from the talks.

On 15 June, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra made a private phone call to Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen, a former prime minister who remains the dominant political figure in the ...

Rewind a couple of years to the China-brokered Iran-Saudi Arabia rapprochement in March 2023, which quickly developed its own mythology. Although the tentative détente was finalised in Beijing, it had ...

Framework documents like a Foreign Policy White Paper don’t help Ministers know what the balance of power in Southeast Asia is, nor how to connect various initiatives in countries across the Pacific ...

Military tensions across the Taiwan Strait continue to increase. China’s People’s Liberation Army has stepped up exercises simulating blockades, showing Beijing’s growing pressure. Against this tense ...

It’s the mid-2030s, and China’s growing network of dual-use ports and airfields has reshaped the South Pacific’s security landscape. Ostensibly, civilian projects now dot the region – but behind the ...