Southeast Asian countries were among those most heavily targeted by Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs – now struck down by the US Supreme Court. Paradoxically, however, the region was ...

The conventional account of why Timor-Leste’s membership of ASEAN is good for regional security goes something like this: Timor-Leste is a young, post-conflict, least-developed country. Membership of ...

The last time Australia and Indonesia celebrated a security pact – the 1995 Agreement on Maintaining Security (AMS) – it ended poorly. The new Treaty of Common Security echoes that moment, but history ...

The rapid demise of two Thai prime ministers in as many years has paved the way for a third: Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the third largest party in the Thai parliament, Bhumjai Thai. Who is Anutin, ...

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them,” Winston Churchill once famously lamented. Nothing better captures the realpolitik wisdom of the British ...

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 ...

As the Indo-Pacific shifts towards multipolarity, it is natural for Indonesia, Australia, and India – three influential middle powers – to draw closer. This is not about raw power, but shared ...

The fate of the subsea environment and the seabed are on the brink of a fundamental shift. Driven by the Trump administration’s recent sweeping changes to US national security and foreign and domestic ...

How far should geopolitical calculation drive trade agreements? It’s the question raised in whom to support and whom to stall for admission to the 12 nation, adjective laden Comprehensive and ...

North Korea has rarely admitted the presence of its troops in foreign battlefields, let alone in an ongoing conflict. However, in late April, it did just that. The effort to reassure the public does ...

China’s “Global Security Initiative”, China’s vision for the international security order, has just turned three years old. The emerging picture of the GSI presents China as the leading responsible ...

Over the past year, China’s President Xi Jinping has undertaken two waves of purges of high-ranking military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army. The first wave targeted the PLA Rocket Force, ...