Pyongyang is reaping the benefits of its relationship with Moscow. South Korea’s new president wants to woo them back. With no diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine that satisfies Moscow, the odds ...

The seizure of several Singaporean armored vehicles being shipped through Hong Kong is at the center of a simmering diplomatic row between Singapore and China over the city-state's relations with ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob was a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

Much has been said in recent days about the Pukpuk Treaty, named after the Tok Pisin word for crocodile, which is found in both Papua New Guinea and Australia. Known for its stillness and sudden power ...

Linking decarbonisation with trade policy could offer an alternative to rising protectionism. World leaders must consider what a positive, alternative vision of international trade could entail (Getty ...

The government wants to create a new parliamentary joint committee with a special focus on defence oversight. The aim, in the words of Assistant Minister for Defence Peter Khalil last week when ...

Until his retirement from government this year, Nick Rasmussen has worked in counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism under successive Republican and Democratic administrations in the United ...

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lands in Australia on Thursday for what both governments are billing as a landmark two-day visit. Indian media has flagged three defence agreements will be ...

The pandemic rudely interrupted plans, but Vietnam is finally getting around to reciprocating the 2019 visit by North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un to the country. Vietnam’s To Lam, General Secretary of ...

Pakistan has quietly pitched a bold idea to Washington to build a new deep-sea port at Pasni, on the Arabian Sea, just over 100 kilometres from the China-funded port at Gwadar and about half as far ...

Realists tend not to be born apologists. So, it is perhaps telling that Patrick Porter’s punchy, “bite-sized defence of realism”, How to Survive a Hostile World, is strewn with qualifications and ...