Less than two months into Trump’s second coming, Australia’s worst fears for an empowered MAGA presidency are materialising quickly: the undermining of alliances, the imposition of blanket tariffs, ...

In recent months, the China-Myanmar border has erupted into chaos as clashes between Myanmar’s military – the Tatmadaw – and ethnic armed organisations such as the Kachin Independence Army and the ...

After months of uncertainty about its future, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week confirmed the near-total gutting of USAID. With some 83 per cent of programs officially cut, the announcement ...

Among the Canberra national security commentariat, it has been hard to have a conversation in the past couple of years without someone mentioning “the archipelago”. This is the space in which the ...

Asian geopolitics has changed rapidly in the recent past, and the pace of change is accelerating. This book, by one of India’s most senior and respected foreign policy minds, examines this moment of ...

There is a certain attractiveness to arguments that President Donald Trump’s blowing up of transatlantic relations will catalyse a rapprochement between Europe and China. At a time when Europe is ...

The Gate of Grief may be in for more suffering. Just when the Egyptian government was hoping traffic through the Suez Canal might return to normal after 15 months of conflict, the waterway is ...

Around 3:30 in the afternoon, just 25 kilometres from Lahore, a restless crowd gathers at the Wagah–Attari border, where two rival nations – India and Pakistan – meet. Pakistanis pass through layers ...

Russia last year exercised its UN Security Council veto to put a stop to reports about North Korea’s sanction-busting efforts. As a result, in October, 11 countries – Australia, Canada, France, ...

It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the ...

France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, and Italy – the five biggest military spenders in Europe – met for the fourth time last week since the election of Donald Trump under what they refer to as ...

Housing will be a central issue of Australia’s forthcoming election. The cost and scarcity of it is a national emergency. While younger voters may force politicians to think about it more clearly when ...