At the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau last week, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was asked whether it was ...

The first question to consider when thinking about a major defence program such as AUKUS is this: defence against whom?

Now China is going after the Batanes Islands, a strategically crucial Philippine territory in the Luzon Strait south of ...

The focus for this year’s annual gathering of Pacific leaders and partners was always going to be about China. With the 55th annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) taking place last week in ...

With slightly over a year to go to before the next national congress of China’s Communist Party, held every five years, China ...

Whenever I write about China’s use of economic coercion, I receive remarkably similar responses. Beijing, I am told, was ...

Count on the AI crowd to have a full-blown culture war over the idea of anthropomorphism. True, many AI researchers and ...

During the Optus outage in 2023, Australians joked about not being able to buy a coffee, pay for lunch or order an Uber.

Maritime surveillance has become Southeast Asia’s critical capability gap. Artificial intelligence combined with orbital ...

Southeast Asia has quietly become the world’s largest manufacturing hub for financial fraud, and it’s no longer a distant ...

It doesn’t all go Beijing’s way. In Latin America, China has been suffering notable reversals of influence. Honduras is a ...

It is a bipartisan position that Australia faces its most significant strategic circumstances since World War II. But the ...