Security

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Genevieve Donnellon-May and Hongzhou Zhang Against the backdrop of trade tensions with the United States, a worsening geopolitical environment and growing supply chain vulnerabilities due to climate change and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Authors: Pradeep S Mehta and Sandra George, CUTS International Emerging cooperation between India and Australia is widely understood as a response to the China challenge that is facilitated by multilateral…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Amresh Lavan Gunasingham, NTU On 22 March 2022, Sri Lankan lawmakers have approved a range of reforms to the country’s controversial anti-terror law. Activist groups, some Western governments and…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Terence Wesley-Smith, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and Gerard A Finin, Georgetown University US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s 12 February 2022 visit to Fiji for a virtual summit…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Authors: Steven Webster and Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University Joe Biden’s election in November 2020 brought hope that political divisions in the United States could be eased under a new administration….

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Jeehye Kim, University of British Columbia One of the most pressing items on the foreign policy agenda for South Korea’s next president is how to handle the US–China contest…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: James Curran, University of Sydney Now that Vladimir Putin’s KGB strength mentality of thuggery is manifest in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the consensus about the advent of a new…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Kei Koga, NTU The Japan–Australia Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) was finally signed on 6 January 2022. Under the increasingly severe strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific region, Japanese Prime Minister…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Andrey Gubin, Far Eastern Federal University Russia and ASEAN celebrated the 30th anniversary of official relations in 2021. There was no special ceremony for the occasion, but Russian President…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Peter Van Ness, ANU After years of disputes — over the origins of COVID-19, serious Chinese foreign trade restrictions, and differences about the fate of tennis star Peng Shuai…