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

That Australia cannot guarantee regional security via military means should not provoke a feeling of helplessness. It can evidently defend its territory and people for a relatively low cost. Australia ...

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.

I previously wrote for The Interpreter that the conclusion of the logistics arrangement had provided the two militaries with a convenient tool to cooperate at a time when an imminent threat from China ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chenxi Shen is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on China’s foreign policy, digital populism, with a particular ...

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 ...

An unusual kind of tension is brewing in Northeast Asia. In a first, China deployed its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers to the Pacific, generating fresh friction with Japan. The Chinese ...