China’s propaganda is often mocked as blunt, loud and tone-deaf. But state-backed researchers are trying to make it more sophisticated. They are building AI systems that model the cultural and ...
Australia can remain indispensable to steelmaking while making less money from it. In 2025–26 dollars, the government’s June ...
Scholars named in public for entanglement with a foreign regime, international research collaborations quietly binned, and institutional partnerships needing to be torn up by the government – such ...
Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions ...
Berlin’s hurried shift to actively defending against hybrid threats shows the danger of cumulative under-reaction to hostile ...
Forgive me my pedantry, but if Australia is going to regulate social media algorithms, we should be precise about what an ...
Donald Trump’s name won’t be on any more ballots, but his spirit will be. A lame duck president with relatively low approval ...
Australia’s declared strategy of denial needs to become effective long before the powerful new nuclear submarines become ...
The tendency to treat universities in Hong Kong and Macau as somehow separated from the mainstream of Chinese research ...
As Australia identifies national resilience and civil preparedness as key to national defence, it should learn from Norway, ...
In 1942, scientists working on what became the Manhattan Project confronted a disturbing possibility: could an atomic ...
If there’s one thing we hope attendees take away from ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue AI Masterclass, it’s to reflect on whether we’re ...