Australia-India Joint Declaration on Defence and Security Cooperation
On 9 July the Commonwealth Government released the text of the Australia-India Joint Declaration (2026) on Defence and Security Cooperation. This followed a meeting...
China’s Pacific own goal
By Oliver Nobetau*
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been on a hot streak of Pacific diplomacy. Over the past week, Australia has inked three...
Pacific seabed’s crowding
The Pacific seabed is no longer an empty space between nations. It is becoming one of the most strategically crowded environments in the region....
Making it difficult for Taiwan
By Nathan Attrill*
In 2026, Beijing is making international engagement with Taiwan more costly. China has long sought to narrow Taiwan’s international space and make...
Taiwan: a cause worth losing for
By Josh Richards and Joseph Hanacek
By Josh Richards and Joseph Hanacek*
Foreign policy debates are often framed around a single question: what causes are worth...
Iran trumps US, threatens law treaty
By Crispin Hull
US President Donald Trump’s innate inability to empathise with others and lack of intelligence to foresee consequences are likely to hand Iran...
China’s Taiwan rehearsals
By Jason Wang, Marvin Bernardo, Pei-Jhen Wu, and Andrew S. Erickson*
For years, the public debate over a possible Chinese Communist invasion of Taiwan has...
Mapping China’s expansion
New research from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute details how and why China is expanding its security engagement across the Pacific and Indian ocean...
China’s expansion in two oceans
China’s security footprint was once confined to its immediate neighbourhood. That time is now past. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping since 2013, China...
Has Australia’s Antarctic Shelf claim been shelved forever?
By William Hazell*
For more than two decades, the extent of Australia’s claim to the Antarctic seabed has remained unresolved. In 2004, Australia lodged a...