If there is one thing Canberra has learned from the Strait of Hormuz crisis, it is how vulnerable Australia remains and how dependent it is on the world’s maritime chokepoints. Closer to home, ...

Refugees are continuing to flee on boats across the Andaman Sea. Most refugees undertaking this dangerous sea journey are Rohingya, fleeing Rakhine State in Myanmar or from the refugee camps in ...

Throughout the war, Ukraine has relied on technology to offset Russia’s greater numbers in personnel and materiel. Aerial drones became the backbone of that effort, helping blunt assaults, guide ...

America is weighing the deployment of land forces onto Iranian territory – a move that would dramatically escalate the war and risk drawing it into a prolonged conflict. While this conflict is not ...

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 ...

That the world is becoming more contested and dangerous has become a familiar refrain. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal noted that even small countries like New Zealand are responding with ...

The Chagos archipelago dispute carries wider regional ramifications than the future of the UK–US military base on Diego Garcia. Mauritius has won the UK’s support for a deal over sovereignty of the ...

What they say about desperate times and desperate measures. With oil and gas disruptions in the Middle East, the Philippines is scrambling for options, last week declaring a state of energy emergency.

China and Russia this week vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution on the Strait of Hormuz crisis, which began when Iran closed the Strait in response to US and Israeli attacks almost six weeks ago.

Beijing appears to be returning to a familiar Taiwan playbook: selective engagement with political forces on the island. The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) chairperson Cheng Li-wun’s current visit to ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being integrated into international asylum procedures, with early trials promising faster processing, reduced backlogs and more uniform outputs. These ...

In August 1969, a secret diplomatic cable from the United States embassy in Islamabad reported on a conversation between Henry Kissinger, then National Security Advisor to President Richard Nixon, and ...