As the United States moves in a more unilateral and transactional direction, the United Kingdom and NATO’s four Indo-Pacific partners – Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea – should establish ...

Monitoring the high seas is a growing focus for countries. Modern technology enables the detection of illicit activities such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, or “dark shipping”. But ...

As a diplomat, I spent three decades advocating for Australia’s security and prosperity and telling the Australian story of freedom, equality and opportunity to the world. A key part of that story was ...

The escalation in India-US relations, marked by President Donald Trump’s imposition of 50% tariffs on Indian goods over New Delhi’s continued imports of Russian oil, has created shockwaves. This ...

The paper by Rahman Yaacob, Susannah Patton, and Jack Sato, entitled Southeast Asia’s evolving defence partnerships, analyses Southeast Asia’s defence agreements, dialogues and combined military ...

It’s a tale told in headlines, of a relationship soured in mere months. For those readers who haven’t followed the threads of India’s “Canada-moment” – the shock at finding itself subject to the same ...

Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Liu Jianchao – a senior diplomat widely expected to become China’s next foreign minister – had been detained. While the report remains ...

When senior officials from Delhi, Canberra, and Paris announced in 2020 that they had held a first trilateral meeting involving India, Australia and France to boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, it ...

Singapore’s defence cooperation is broad and deep, a deliberate outcome of its long-standing strategy to bolster security, secure overseas training grounds, access advanced technologies, and ...

Between China and Trump, little wonder Australia and Japan have lots to talk about – even if not a wartime past ...

When a warship capsized as it was being launched at a North Korean shipyard in May – the debacle watched by Chairman Kim Jong-un – it was easy to miss the main message. North Korea is pursuing its ...