China’s pressure campaign aims to bend Taiwan toward eventual annexation. But sustained coercion could weaken the liberal ...

Pax Silica sounds like the future because, in many respects, it is. In an era where artificial intelligence is reorganising ...

Australia’s political leaders should model basic cyber hygiene by following the guidance of their own security agencies, ...

Renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia along their contested border has exposed the fragility of ceasefire diplomacy ...

Proposals for a Ukraine peace deal that accept Russian territorial gains repeat the old pattern of great powers dividing weaker states. It is a pattern set in the partitions of Poland in 1795 and ...

The terror attack at Bondi Beach on Sunday should be understood not only as an act of violence but as a stress test of ...

Last night’s violence at Bondi was confronting, brutal and deeply unsettling. It shattered the ordinary rhythms of a place ...

Preparedness, resilience and blurred threats were the top security concerns for panellists at ASPI’s Women in Defence and ...

Australia and Japan should split the burden of protecting critical sea lines of communication (SLOC) in the Pacific. In an ...

In a blizzard of pre-holidays defence diplomacy, Defence Minister Richard Marles has, in his own words, been ‘doubling down ...

The ritual is now familiar. A user calls Grok, the AI model used on social media platform X, into a political argument. Grok ...

The next National Defence Strategy (NDS), expected in early 2026, should deliver something Australia has long lacked: a ...