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James CurranBrisbane Times |
Ahead of the Japanese prime minister’s visit, has Canberra fully thought through the implications of its burgeoning defence links with Tokyo?
While there is already much introspection in America as to the long-term effects of this crisis on its capabilities, will Canberra seize the moment to...
Australia’s carefully calibrated but confusing diplomacy has struggled to cope with the political and strategic consequences of the US-Israeli war...
The comparison with the Iraq war in 2003 is stark. While the result was disastrous, no voter could be in any doubt that John Howard believed in what...
The Canadian leader’s speech provides another opportunity for our PM not to lead or think.
Vietnam’s Communist Party leader To Lam has consolidated power and set ambitious growth targets for the country’s future. While reforms have...
Vietnam’s relationship with Washington since the end of the war has been one of remarkable redemption, but trade negotiations with Donald Trump...
Anthony Albanese said he agreed with the Canadian PM, but it is highly unlikely he or any of his national security ministers would give the same kind...
This is not the time to send a Les Patterson type figure or drag an old Labor mare from the stables for one last trot on the diplomatic circuit.
This was not just a show of strength but an expression of raw American power, fraught with the risk of unintended consequences. Now Trump owns what...
Strains on social cohesion cannot be dismissed as the embrace of multiculturalism has made the task of defining what holds the community together more...
The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear.
The inescapable reality is there remain plenty of off-ramps for future administrations to break the pledge to transfer the nuclear-powered submarines...
The former prime minister believes Donald Trump will not, in virtually any circumstances, fight the Chinese. That means Labor’s China diplomacy may...
It is in Asia where Australia’s bread is buttered. Canberra needs a strategy on the security impact of Trump’s tariffs on our interests there.
The Albanese government appears to be wanting to force Pacific countries into choices they do not want to make.
On full display was Beijing’s rapid military transformation and capacity to ultimately confront the US and its allies in policy and military terms.
The president may make concessions to China as he has to Putin, even if it undermines the security of Taiwan.
Given the nature of the Trump administration, the confrontation with Australia over committing to defend Taiwan could blow up into a major crisis.
Albanese’s approach is not doctrinal, but is about speaking frankly to both Washington and Beijing.
If Anthony Albanese can be faulted, it is the government’s erosion of Australian sovereignty by its blind extension of the American military...
The Coalition’s shadow defence spokesman is posing questions the Albanese government is refusing to answer about Australia being drawn into a war...
How does Canberra cope in a world that threatens to spin off into competing blocs and help shape a world that preserves multilateralism, even if the...
For the past three years, Labor’s national security team has steadfastly insisted that it has no plan B. This Pentagon review will stress test that...
If played carefully, the US will have to accept Canberra can’t be kicked around, if for no other reason than they need the military bases on...
Insiders describe a PM more concentrated on the management of daily political tactics than the hard brainwork of developing strategies for the longer...
Albanese was happy to benefit from the Trump bump. But dollars for a new foreign and defence policy will limit his plans for domestic welfare...
The US president is coming to mean many things for this nation’s political leaders and for the Australian people.
Too little thought has been given to the future of the Australian economy against the backdrop of a protectionist America.
It’s hard to say how bad the impact of Trump’s tariffs will be. But there is no doubt a global trade war would have major impacts on geoeconomic...