Programs The politics and foreign policies of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the Korean peninsula The China and East Asia Program Cutting-edge Australian, regional, and global thinking on the ...

Australia’s National AI Plan signals a deliberate reframing of how the nation intends to navigate the accelerating global competition in artificial intelligence. For more than a year, the expectation ...

Australia’s universities are at a defining moment. For years, they have been treated less as public institutions of knowledge and more as export infrastructure – engines of revenue rather than engines ...

The Marshall Islands’ recent decision to use a US dollar-backed stablecoin as one of the mechanisms for delivering a universal basic income (UBI) reflects the practical challenges of providing ...

In November 2025, the world gathered in the Amazonian city of Belém for COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit. It was the first time in 30 years that the United States was absent from the talks. Todd ...

For all the grand declarations about a global energy transition, the real story has been written not in climate summits but in the quiet, deliberate choices made by the world’s major powers. As Adrian ...

For generations, Papua New Guinea’s economic story has been told through the lens of what lies beneath its soil. The promise of the “gold in the hills” has shaped investment, policy decisions and the ...

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the seemingly inexorable progression of artificial intelligence has accelerated. The surprising release of China’s DeepSeek in January this year startled ...

As the prospect of a US-China military conflict hangs over the Asia-Pacific region, some analysts call for the American military to pull back. These include Jennifer Kavanagh, who advocated this ...

The Tuesday firing (or resignation) of president Donald Trump’s third national security advisor, John Bolton, was hardly a surprise. The rift between the two men had been the subject of news pieces ...

Last week, the Australian Critical Infrastructure Security Centre published its Third Annual Risk Review. The report said “geopolitical risk is an ongoing reality for all critical infrastructure ...

Warren Mundine is an Australian Aboriginal leader and the former National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He quit the Labor Party in 2012 and was appointed to the position of chairman ...