A weekend report in The Australian has raised questions about whether the foreign university affiliations of an interpreter for successive Australian prime ministers are a national security issue. The fact that successive Australian leaders – …
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For 80 years, there was an expectation that when international crises threatened to spiral into war, the United Nations would be at the centre of efforts to prevent it. Yet during the recent Middle East …
President Donald Trump’s 27 May threat to ‘blow up’ Oman if it didn’t fall into line was strategically self-defeating. With one off-the-cuff remark, the United States risked damaging the one quiet, trusted channel through which …
International rules still matter. That was the common theme at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, particularly for Indo-Pacific nations. Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, told the conference, ‘The international rules-based …
China is no longer a rising power that’s seeking accommodation within the existing international system. It is increasingly acting like a state that believes history has turned in its favour. Beijing is confident it can …