Why Biden’s China Reset Is a Bad Idea
Signaling neediness to an adversary has never been effective.
There is less to Beijing’s security gains in the Pacific than meets the eye.
So-called fence-sitters are rejecting zero-sum geopolitical binaries in favor of multi-alignment.
Southeast Asian skepticism toward the foursome is softening.
A controversy threatens to blow the alliance’s nuclear submarine deal out of the water.
With the big sub deal in hand, it’s no longer Miller time.
Most of the country wants the government to do more for Indigenous Australians. So why is a proposal to achieve that so fraught?
To evade surveillance and reporting by nationalist members of the diaspora, anti-CCP protesters get creative.
Canberra has spent decades ostracizing asylum-seekers and detaining Africans and Asians fleeing war. Now, the national team needs them on the field.
The case for a global forecasting unit led by the United States and Australia.
Tokyo has become an indispensable security actor in the Indo-Pacific.
A team of Rohingya refugees forms a soccer club in Australia and becomes a beacon of hope.
Can the new foreign minister escape the slipstream of the superpowers?
People-to-people interactions are longer and deeper than the pair’s state relations.
Plus: The economic history of Australia.
Naval power projection is a long way out for Beijing still.
“China ultimately respects strength and is contemptuous of weakness,” the former Australian prime minister said.
China’s expansion into the South Pacific caught Australia and the United States off guard.
Two wealthy men with opposing political views are riding a wave of discontent with the major parties.
Devastating floods have yet again revealed the country is at the sharp end of climate change.