Dr Bec Strating is Director of La Trobe Asia and Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at La Trobe University, focusing primarily on maritime disputes and Australian foreign ...

China’s President Xi Jinping appears to be preparing a state visit to Pyongyang in the coming weeks. The trip will be his first overseas journey of 2026, following in close succession to summits in ...

As the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue kicks off in Singapore on Friday, observers will be on the lookout for Admiral Dong Jun, China’s defence minister. The seniority of China’s representative at Shangri-La ...

At this week’s Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference in Perth, the conversation was predictably filled with submarines, deterrence, AUKUS and China. Yet what stood out just as much was how ...

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 ...

Late last month, an Indian citizen named Prema Thongdok, who was travelling from London to Japan, was detained for 18 hours on her layover in Shanghai. Chinese officials claimed her passport was ...

A horrific terrorist attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach targeting Jewish Australians at a public Hannukah celebration has left at least 16 people dead and many others injured, some critically. This is the ...

In less than two months since assuming the Indonesian presidency, Prabowo Subianto has already visited six countries – China, United States, Peru, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United Arab ...

The BRICS grouping is nowhere to be found while the Iran conflict shows few signs of abating. Although Iran joined BRICS in 2024 and rising powers founded BRICS as part of an effort to push back ...

ASEAN centrality is a concept in crisis. The bloc now faces a huge test as Thailand and Cambodia clash along the disputed border in the Emerald Triangle. Yet there is little sign that the Association ...

How does the “key planning assumption” that the UK will have a permanent rotational submarine presence east of Suez square with increased pressures to preserve deterrence in Europe and the Atlantic?

Growing up in India, it was most common to hear the word “population” juxtaposed with “explosion”, like a frightful bomb that would go off in our faces. The first known use of the term “population ...