For a decade, the argument about technological sovereignty has turned on where data is stored. The more important question was always who controlled the system and who could switch it off. Australia has met that …
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Replacing vulnerable but nationally critical information-technology systems takes too long. Australia should follow the United States and subsidise their replacement. While old systems of national significance (SoNS) remain in place, they’re magnets for foreign powers …
A debate over Chinese-made electric buses has arrived in Australia with familiar speed. Talk of potential kill switches has prompted calls to rip and replace foreign vehicles and turn to domestic supply. But the concerns …
Democratic states have a smart-car problem. For those that don’t act quickly and decisively, it’s about to become a severe national security headache. Over the past few weeks, about 20 of China’s largest car manufacturers …
The landmark critical minerals agreement between Australia and the United States is vital to both nations’ security and sovereignty. Like AUKUS, it is about competing with China. But to enable it we now need also …
The race to 6G isn’t just about bandwidth. It’s about control over spectrum, standards, supply chains and the values underpinning tomorrow’s infrastructure. If 5G taught us anything, trust and interoperability need to be built in …
Australia should position itself as the trusted technology partner for core infrastructure across the Pacific. More than branding, this means being the default choice for governments weighing offers from multiple suitors with competing strategic and …
We have left behind the hyperglobalisation of the 1990s, and since 2006 moved into the age of economic warfare, according to Edward Fishman in his book Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. …
Australia must strike a better balance between independent control over its defence-industrial supply chains and staying open to global innovation, particularly in dual-use technologies. As strategic competition intensifies, rigid restrictions can stifle the very innovation …
When Patrick McGee decided to write Apple in China, he wanted to focus on the company’s weaknesses rather than its strengths. Reviewing the evidence, he soon realised that it all pointed to Apple’s China strategy. …
Five years after the height of debates on banning Huawei from European 5G infrastructure, Spain has quietly handed the Chinese tech giant a contract to store and manage police wiretaps, the legal interceptions of communications …
The Pacific is no longer an afterthought in global strategic competition. Stretching across a vast ocean, the region’s scattered island nations are navigating a digital transition that will shape their economic development, national security and …