Beijing appears to be returning to a familiar Taiwan playbook: selective engagement with political forces on the island. The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) chairperson Cheng Li-wun’s current visit to ...

That the world is becoming more contested and dangerous has become a familiar refrain. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal noted that even small countries like New Zealand are responding with ...

Ten years have passed since the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) process came to an end in March 2016 in Washington DC. Initiated by US President Barack Obama in 2010, the biennial process convened four ...

With global insecurity once again exposing Australia’s dependence on imported fuel, the lack of long-term policy memory and action by Canberra justifies a public “we told you so”. No recent Australian ...

Medicines, once seen primarily as a matter of public health, are emerging as crucial assets in a more contested world. The change has been gradual, but recent crises have made it impossible to ignore.

The Quad was built on a tacit understanding that its members – Australia, Japan, India, and the United States – did not have to agree on everything to work together where they could. That flexibility ...

The ANU National Security College has released findings from a major national survey of more than 18,000 Australians on attitudes to national security. Among its most striking insights is a persistent ...

One year after the United States shuttered USAID and sharply reduced its global aid commitments, the UN-led humanitarian system continues to grapple with the aftershocks. Early diagnoses of the crisis ...

The public emergence of Kim Jong-un’s daughter in November 2022 marked one of the most closely scrutinised moments in recent North Korean politics. Her appearance alongside her father at a missile ...

Chinese military activity in the Pacific has reached new levels in the past year. A PLA Navy task group circumnavigated Australia in February, staging a live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea between ...

Dr Hilman Palaon is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute in the Indo-Pacific Development Centre. His work focuses on digital economy issues in the Indo-Pacific region. Hilman has extensive ...