Australia to join Malabar exercise
Australia will join the India-led Malabar 2020 naval exercise next month, operating along with the U.S. and Japan in an exercise meant to send...
Chagos: a year since UK was ordered out
By Nilanthi Samaranayake*
November 2020 will mark the one-year anniversary when the United Kingdom should have left the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, as...
The Quad sharpens its edges
By Brahma Chellaney*
The Quad, a loose strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific region’s four leading democracies, is rapidly solidifying this year in response to China’s...
India agrees to US-Maldives accord
A defence agreement the U.S. government signed with the Maldives this month is a sign of shifting geopolitical tides in a strategic stretch of...
The Australia-India strategic partnership
By Dhruva Jaishankar*
After five decades of testy or distant strategic relations, India and Australia began in the early 2000s to forge an increasingly cooperative...
Between giants: the future of the Taiwanese Navy
By Jonathan Selling*
For years worries about a potential second Cold War between the United States and China have swirled within discussions on the Asia-Pacific....
Xi’s black-box strategic thinking
By Peter Jennings*
What is China trying to achieve by its sudden lurch to a bullying, ‘wolf warrior’ global stance? For all the billions of...
China moving in on climate-threatened Kiribati
By Steve Raaymakers*
The world knows the Republic of Kiribati as a very low-lying nation in the mid-Pacific that is in danger of inundation as...
ALP questions Chinese Darwin Port role
By Luke Gosling, Labor Member for Solomon (NT)
The Australian government says its new foreign relations bill is about one thing: ensuring foreign policy consistency...
Quad’s role in ocean environment protection
By David Brewster*
The explosion and fire on board a supertanker off Sri Lanka this month, following closely on last month’s disastrous oil spill in...