Sheridan Ward is a researcher on non-militarisation and countries without sovereign military institutions. She holds a BA in International Security from the ANU and a Masters of Sustainable ...

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

Despite the interchangeable use of the words, Australia’s development program is not just about aid. Short of an ODA increase, the question becomes one of allocations and trade-offs – and ...

In the past four months, the Trump administration has published more than 130 executive orders. Three categories of emerging policy – maritime strategy, energy, and critical minerals – are likely to ...

The 52 Chinese that arrived in December 1978 were labelled “scholars” on account of their age. Most were in their 30s and 40s. They weren’t late bloomers; the Cultural Revolution had effectively ...

In 2017, Trump did not expect to win and was not ready to govern when he beat Hillary Clinton in the election. As a newly elected leader with no experience in government, personal relationships and ...

Ukraine’s strike on four Russian airfields on 1 June was one of the most effective operations of the war, causing an estimated US$7 billion in damage, disabling roughly a third of Russia’s strategic ...

This year’s poll shows that Australians have been quick to realise that America’s language on “the China challenge” in the Pacific is not matched by its actions. The contradictions, or, more ...

Alarmed by the possibility of funding cuts, the world’s big multilateral banks are scrambling to accommodate US demands. For several years, the Asian Development Bank has highlighted its role as “the ...

Xi, by contrast, understands the Cultural Revolution all too well. His family was victimised in Mao’s Cultural Revolution. His home was ransacked. His half-sister committed suicide. He was sent off to ...

The dominant strategic narrative presents the Indo-Pacific in binaries: democracies versus autocracies, the US-led order versus China’s challenge, AUKUS versus the PLA Navy. But this framing is not ...