When Papua New Guinea announced last week that Taiwan’s representative office would “no longer be recognised” (Opens in new window) within its jurisdiction, the reflex was to file the news under a ...

When Narendra Modi arrives in Australia this week, much of the focus will rightly be on how far the India–Australia relationship has travelled. This will be his third visit (Opens in new window) as ...

The India Chair produces independent research on India’s emergence as a global strategic actor. In a region marked by great power competition and a volatile order in transition, India’s choices on ...

In 2026, Australians are wary of the two superpowers, placing low levels of trust in both the United States and China. Trust in the United States to act responsibly in the world has fallen to 31%, the ...

Afghanistan is giving away its mineral wealth. Through a pattern of deals that export value at the point of extraction, the country is surrendering control over what could – and should – be its ...

Southeast Asia is entering an uncertain era in which American security guarantees can no longer be relied upon. This challenge is becoming more urgent as a Taiwan contingency grows increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

To respond to China’s long-standing dominance of the rare earth market and its use of that dominance as a tool of diplomatic pressure when necessary, Japan is accelerating its effort to elevate rare ...

While the world’s attention is rightly focused on the war in Iran, another conflict is unfolding along Iran’s eastern border. Since 27 February 2026, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been officially at ...

Australia is not on the list of countries calling for a moratorium on DSM. These ill-defined impacts of DSM on the Pacific’s greatest shared resource – the ocean – are why Palau, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, ...

We’re told that President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy is all about China, that a master strategist is at work to isolate Beijing from the world by attacking one of its closest partners and a ...