South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

For North Korea's nuclear arsenal, 2025 has been a relatively quiet year. It neither tested a nuclear weapon nor fired an intercontinental ballistic missile. For now, the conventional military balance ...

In 2024, for the first time ever, bilateral trade between India and Taiwan exceeded US$10 billion. And in the past six months alone, governments and businesses in the two countries have agreed on ...

For most of my career, first as an analyst in Australia's intelligence community and then in the world of think tanks, I have watched and written about the modernisation of China's military, the ...

While Western powers urge China to help end the Ukraine war, Beijing shows little urgency in pushing Russia to halt its military operations. The world’s second-largest economy benefits both ...

The world is increasingly shaped by the proliferation of both conflict and data, yet it can be difficult to extract accurate and relevant information about the intensity and impact of political ...

In light of the terrible events in Bondi, Sydney, yesterday, it's worth revisiting last month's Lowy Lecture by the head of Australia's domestic intelligence service, ASIO. Burgess spoke at length ...

Bill Bishop an entrepreneur and former media executive with more than a decade’s experience living in and working in the PRC. He writes the Sinocism Newsletter, a daily publication about China, that ...