America needs to talk about China
By Minxin Pei*
Of all the changes in US foreign policy that President Donald Trump’s administration has made, the most consequential is the adoption of...
Chinese white paper sheds light, raises questions
By Stephen Kuper, of Defence Connect
The unprecedented economic rise of China has paved the way for its meteoric increase in military capability and...
No free ride in the Pacific
By Walker Mills*
In recent years the Pentagon has doubled down on a Pacific focus. It has published a new Pacific strategy and the individual...
Countering China in South China Sea
By LtCol Roy Draa*
“Free and open access to the South and East China Seas is critical to both regional security and international commerce…Through its...
The South China Sea arbitral award three years later
By Carlyle A. Thayer
We are working on a review of the Arbitral Tribunal’s Award in The Hague three years ago up to the...
South Korea to build LPH
South Korea is to launch a new version of a large-deck landing ship from which short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing aircraft can operate by the late 2020s, amid...
Australian perspective on the Hormuz Straits stand-Off
By ‘Depth Charge’
The piratical seizure of a UK flagged tanker in the Straits of Hormuz last week reveals the price that a maritime nation...
Foam in the ocean: Quad 2.0 at 18 months
By Euan Moyle*
Despite greater unity on the concept of the “free and open Indo-Pacific,” the renewed Quadrilateral Security Dialogue may suffer from many of...
New China cold war to force changes in Australian behaviour
By Peter Jennings*
Concerns were widely expressed this week about a Chinese intelligence-gathering ship loitering off eastern Australia to spy on our biggest defence exercise....
Defending Australia: we cannot ignore climate
By Mark Beeson*
Hugh White’s latest book, How to defend Australia, has attracted much attention. As the book’s back cover rightly claims, White is ‘Australia’s...