The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) is pleased to announce the appointment of seven distinguished ...

Donald Trump’s tariff policies have disproportionately impacted ASEAN economies, disrupting exports, deterring investment, and straining US-ASEAN trade ties. To navigate these challenges, ASEAN ...

Australia needs strategic reindustrialisation. The days of secure supply chains and geopolitical stability have begun to erode, and Australia is without a plan. Australia is at a crossroads, where the ...

The Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine has been primarily driven by the threat of NATO’s expansion along Russia’s border. Its strategic objective is to annex some Ukrainian territory and badly ...

China’s “Blue Dragon” strategy seeks to upend Washington’s containment policy and breakout of strategic bottlenecks through leveraging national defence and development across four separate geographic ...

Misleading entertainment visuals on TikTok are more potent than hate speech content, making misinformation and disinformation harder to identify. The effect is subtle yet powerful. Governments ...

The initial enthusiasm for the nearly US$30bn that China injected into Pakistan has now vanished. Rather, CPEC has become entangled in Pakistani domestic politics, even as the BRI has transformed ...

Amid the Ukraine conflict, Central Asian states are leveraging a multi-vector foreign policy to balance historic ties with Russia and expanding partnerships with global powers. This strategic pivot ...

US Congressional report argues that Australia’s acquisition of nuclear submarines would actually undercut deterrence of China by depleting the US submarine fleet. With the promise of nuclear ...

The turn to “statecraft” in the defence and foreign affairs discourse in Australia is a move in the right direction. The risks in an era of US-China competition are real and serious: we need clear and ...

As China seeks to dominate the island chains in the Western Pacific, the Taiwan Crisis stands in its way. For China to take full control of these island chains, it must first seize Taiwan, the ...

Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on X (Twitter) Despite the growing opposition, mining operations are set to begin as soon as regulatory guidelines for mining in international waters allow, ...