South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

Donald Trump’s proclamation about reshaping North America and having Canada become “the 51st state” is but one land grab by the soon-to-be returned president. This may just be another of Trump’s ...

For most of my career, first as an analyst in Australia's intelligence community and then in the world of think tanks, I have watched and written about the modernisation of China's military, the ...

Google is laying new submarine cables along Australia’s northern and western approaches. The routes will link to a planned Google AI data centre on Christmas Island, likely building on an existing ...

Dewi Fortuna Anwar straddles the world of academia, political activism and government. She is a Research Professor at the Research Center for Politics-Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI) and ...

Programs The politics and foreign policies of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the Korean peninsula The China and East Asia Program Cutting-edge Australian, regional, and global thinking on the ...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is embarking on one of the world’s most ambitious experiments in universal basic income (UBI). Beginning on 26 November 2025, the government introduced a ...

Australia’s future prosperity and security will be shaped in the Indo-Pacific. Yet, despite decades of warnings, our national Asia capability – knowledge of languages, cultures, and regional dynamics ...

In July this year, we published an article in The Interpreter that identified an information operation in the Indonesian social media environment centred around Pakistan using their J-10 fighter jets ...