India’s interest in developing Sabang port in northern Sumatra is often interpreted as a response to China’s expanding maritime presence in the Indian Ocean. This does not capture India’s more immediate priorities. Sabang will acquire …
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As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in his speech at Sydney University last month, artificial intelligence is already a part of our daily lives and ‘no government can turn back the clock or press pause’. …
The signals are getting clear enough: Japan is becoming an ally of Australia. The latest indication is that Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is this week visiting Australia for the second time in four months. …
As digital threats increasingly span across domains, cross-institutional cooperation is becoming central to national security. Australia needs to fuse cyber, physical and information-based threat indicators into one operational picture before crises emerge. Australia’s national-security system …
In Australian foreign policy, there has long been a tension between those who place preponderant weight on our alliance relationship with the United States and those who argue for drawing a greater sense of security …
In the South China Sea, China is expanding its presence in disputed waters and adopting increasingly dangerous tactics against neighbouring states. At the same time, it is challenging the centrality of the United Nations Convention …
At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in May, Defence Minister Richard Marles described attacks on global subsea cable infrastructure as ‘historically unprecedented’ in scale and frequency. Since November 2024, vessels have severed fibre optic cables …
In February, an Indonesian naval officer publicly acknowledged what had long been understood in the service: foreign submarines routinely transited Indonesian waters, including through passages such as the Wetar Strait, often with little warning to …
Beijing’s intensifying efforts to shape international norms on AI are calibrated to promote itself as a responsible global leader, but they are largely self-serving, aimed at catching up on the technology and exporting China’s illiberal …
Addressing the common threats facing the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific will require effective cross-regional mechanisms. Hybrid threats are among the most pertinent given their increasingly transnational, multidimensional and persistent nature. The European Union and Australia, given …
As Australia strengthens the protection of critical seabed infrastructure, it should draw on Taiwan’s frontline experience. Taiwan has been battling this problem for three years. At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on 30 May, Deputy …
On 3 June in New York, the UN General Assembly faces a choice: will the institution charged with enforcing international rules include a voice that’s prepared to call out their breaches? The General Assembly will …