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 ...

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 ...

Late last month, an Indian citizen named Prema Thongdok, who was travelling from London to Japan, was detained for 18 hours on her layover in Shanghai. Chinese officials claimed her passport was ...

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 ...

A horrific terrorist attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach targeting Jewish Australians at a public Hannukah celebration has left at least 16 people dead and many others injured, some critically. This is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google is laying new submarine cables along Australia’s northern and western approaches. The routes will link to a planned Google AI data centre on Christmas Island, likely building on an existing ...

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 ...

Final touch-ups were being made to the RAMSI gallery at Honiara’s National Museum on the languid mid-November afternoon I visited. Opened in 2017, the gallery commemorated the end of the fourteen-year ...

Dewi Fortuna Anwar straddles the world of academia, political activism and government. She is a Research Professor at the Research Center for Politics-Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI) and ...