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 ...

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 ...

Weak governance, persistent law-and-order challenges, poor human development outcomes, mismanaged natural resources, and a growing struggle to meet the needs of a young and rapidly expanding ...

Putin was much more upbeat at the summit than Trump, for good reason. The Russian leader arrived and departed from this summit as the biggest winner. He smiled broadly on arrival and appeared ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

NASA reportedly wants to fast-track by 2030 a plan to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon. This followed China’s earlier declaration a similar goal for 2035. These moves, aligned with NASA’s Artemis ...

The selection of Japan’s Mogami class frigate for the Royal Australian Navy is a perfect springboard from which Australian diplomatic leadership could help rally America’s shaken Indo-Pacific allies ...

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them,” Winston Churchill once famously lamented. Nothing better captures the realpolitik wisdom of the British ...

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 ...